By Paul Ausick
For the first six months of 2014, Mercedes-Benz reports that it has sold 783,520 vehicles, up 12.8% over sales in the first half of last year and the best six-month sales period in the company’s long history. Of the total sales 142,136 were passenger cars, a rise of 8%.
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen’s deputy chairman, Thierry Peugeot, was forced out after voicing renewed public dissent over the automaker’s capital tie-up with Dongfeng Motor and the French government.
A Lamborghini Aventador failed to meet its reserve price of 25 million Baht (£500,000) at an auction of 357 confiscated vehicles by Thai Customs held on 3rd July in Bangkok’s Klong Toei district .
Daimler is working to introduce trucks that steer, brake and accelerate independently as early as 2025 as the world’s commercial-vehicle industry leader seeks to keep an innovative edge over competitors.
With the latest, eighth-generation model of the Volkswagen Passat, VW is setting its sights higher than its Ford, Renault, Peugeot or Vauxhall/Opel competitors of the past.
