Nissan will replace Ford as the automotive sponsor of the Champions League, Europe’s most prestigious club soccer tournament, as part of the Japanese automaker’s goal of ousting Toyota as the top-selling Asian brand in Europe.
How PSA CEO Carlos Tavares plans to turn around Europe’s second-largest automaker
New PSA/Peugeot-Citroen CEO Carlos Tavares takes over an automaker that has lost more than 7 billion euros in the last five years because he says, “making money was not the core value here.” That is one of the first things the 55-year-old former No. 2 at Renault plans to change.
Other challenges include reducing PSA’s bloated car lineups, strengthening the automaker’s presence in China, adjusting the company’s European production footprint and navigating the potential minefields that come with having to please powerful new shareholders.Tavares welcomes the long list of tough tasks. “When you have the opportunity to contribute to a turnaround, I think that’s exciting,” he told Automotive News Europe.
Angry families want GM prosecuted for defects
The families of those who died in General Motors cars with defective ignition switches want prosecutors to go after GM insiders responsible for letting the problems fester for more than a decade — and perhaps for covering them up.
Views mixed on Citroen DS’s chances as stand-alone brand
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen CEO Carlos Tavares wants the company’s upscale Citroen DS product line to become a stand-alone brand that can compete with Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW.
Research reveals UK safety issues with vehicles
A survey has shown Scottish vehicles have the worst safety record in the UK looking at penalties applied to driving licences in 2013.
The DVLA provided Intelligentcarleasing.com with the number of cases where driving licence penalty points were applied for ‘construction and use’ offences in 2013 broken down by county, reports Fleet News.
