Paul Myles

Sonja Verdenberk, chief designer of color and materials for Ford of Europe, says lifestyle choices are playing a major role in the design of vehicle interiors.

The move extends the reach of the automaker’s TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) platform into the small-car segment with the development of its new GA-B platform.

Volkswagen do Brasil is creating a vehicle employing the VW Group’s MQB modular transverse architecture entirely in-house.

The Chengdu facility will produce Polestar 1 hybrid-electric vehicles for both China’s domestic and global export markets with the first customer deliveries expected before year’s end.

Matt Weaver, design director at Nissan Design Europe, stoutly defends the Juke’s new, more grown-up appearance.

The automaker will launch the “New Volkswagen” motto at next month’s Frankfurt auto show hoping to attract the “significantly younger, more digital and generally more modern” vehicle owner or user.

Luxembourg-based International Automotive Components has said it will expand its Elmdon facility near its longtime customer Jaguar Land Rover in the West Midlands of the U.K.

The new production facility within an existing Hungary plant is meant to increase Toray’s total battery-separator-film production capacity about 20%.