Compact enough to drive around town, comfortable on long highway cruises even with seven on board, yet with all of the technology and ruggedness required to ford rivers and shrug off blizzards, the Discovery Sport, officially unveiled on Wednesday, is the sort of car that’s going to be great for the school run, even if that school happens to be halfway up a mountain.
Nissan’s loss of its second executive since July is fueling concern that the pool of talent surrounding CEO Carlos Ghosn is drying up.
Nissan Chief Planning Officer Andy Palmer is leaving the company to lead Aston Martin. Palmer’s departure come almost eight weeks after the president of Nissan’s premium Infiniti brand, Johan de Nysschen, jumped to Cadillac.
Audi expects to sell more than 1.7 million cars in 2014 even as sales momentum in some emerging markets slows, CEO Rupert Stadler said.
By Tom Mitchell in Beijing
When Daimler decided to post a board member to Beijing for the first time, it did so with a simple mandate: repair long-running operational problems at the German company’s Mercedes-Benz unit in China and close the gap with BMW and Volkswagen’s Audi.
Ford has created 250 new jobs at its Dagenham engine plant. The company is looking for a new wave of production operators to support its new diesel engine production line, which will go live in 2015.
