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Renault ousts CEO in bid to reboot alliance with Nissan

RENAULT on Friday last week ousted chief executive Thierry Bollore as the carmaker and its partner Nissan seek to rekindle their alliance following the scandal-hit tenure of former alliance head Carlos Ghosn, news agency Reuters reported. Tensions…

Will Subaru become a Toyota subsidiary?

FROM around a 17% share in Subaru, Toyota Motor Corp. will raise this stake to 20%, the two companies announced over the weekend. The move is meant to leverage their scale so they could better compete in…

Ferrari’s Leclerc vows to ‘bounce back stronger in Russia’

SCUDERIA Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, coming from back-to-back wins in Belgium and Italy, came to Singapore hunting to score a hat trick. And by securing his third-straight pole position he looked poised to get exactly that as he…

Donald Trump revokes California’s authority to set own emissions standards

THE Trump administration on Thursday revoked California’s authority to set its own auto tailpipe emissions standards and to require some zero-emission vehicles, a decision that is seen to spark a massive legal battle between Washington and the…

Leclerc secures Ferrari’s first home track win in 9 years

HAVING taken pole after a bizarre final qualifying session in which seven of the nine cars failed to cross the line in time, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc went on to win Sunday’s Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix —…

Auto industry giant Ferdinand Piech is dead at 82

THE man credited as the architect of Volkswagen’s global expansion, having had transformed the company from a struggling midsized carmaker into a global automotive powerhouse, has died. He was 82. The announcement was made by his wife…

Trump hits carmakers for not backing fuel economy rollback

HE wants to roll back Obama-era fuel efficiency standards, but some carmakers are not supporting his call. And so US President Donald Trump goes on the offensive, singling out Ford Motor Co. in particular. News agency Reuters…

On F1’s summer break, Hamilton to meditate, read books

MERCEDES-AMG driver Lewis Hamilton, after winning Sunday’s Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix, said he would take a different approach to the sport’s summer break — the next race, the Belgian Grand Prix, is still on September 1…