Motoring News
13 August 2009Smokebelching Trabant to be reborn as electric car
The Trabant the smokebelching national car of Communist East Germany is to be reborn as an electric car.
read moreVW seals €3.3bn Porsche deal
Volkswagen is to take a 42 per cent stake in Porsche's main production division in a move that will amount to a rescue of the debt-laden German sports car maker and is set to culminate in a complex merger of the two
read moreItaly opens probe into Agnelli estate
The Italian tax authorities are investigating the estate of the late Fiat chairman after a fierce family dispute over his assets
read moreDaily round up - 13/8/2009
Autocar's daily round-up of the best news, first drives and blogs.
read moreTomkins airs car hopes
Shares in the the auto parts maker predicted a small recovery in global carmaking volumes
read moreMagna offers revised bid for GM's Opel
The Canadian car parts supplier hopes to overcome General Motors' concerns on use of its intellectual property and trump a rival bid from RHJ International by offering GM a revised draft agreement
read moreBitter feuds at Deutschland AG herald change
Seemingly never-ending battles at Volkswagen-Porsche and Continental-Schaeffler have been a poor advert for corporate Germany. Family feuds at Porsche and the ousting of popular executives at Conti have done little for international regard of Germany's corporate governance
read moreDavid Bentley charged with drink driving
Tottenham Hotspur star David Bentley apologised today after he was charged with drink driving.
