Dacia management and the company's trade union, Syndicat Autoturisme Dacia, signed an agreement on an annual pay increase on April 11, 2008, ending industrial action that had begun in late March. Work resumed at the Romanian Renault subsidiary's Pitesti plant

The second annual Sexy Green Car Show at the Eden Project near St. Austell is being sponsored by The Co-operative Insurance and will run from May 23-31, featuring more vehicles on display than last year's inaugural event, from manufacturers including

A survey conducted by DuPont and the Society of the Automotive Industry (SAE) shows that environmental issues top the list of challenges facing the automotive industry, outranking cost reduction for the first time in 14 years. A total of 53%

A Bristol engineer and co-presenter on a new National Geographic TV channel, Planet Mechanics, has shown off a compressed air-powered moped prototype he built in one week.

Triumph Motorcycles has announced the opening of a flagship store at Birmingham's Trident Retail Park, Watery Lane. Able to display more than 75 motorcycles and clothing and accessories, the 840m2 store is one of Triumph's largest outlets in the world.

The Birmingham post reported on 12th April that the UK Tier 1 pressings supplier Stadco had pulled out of supplying body panels for the MG TF roadster to Nanjing Automobile Corp. The launch of the revived model's production had been

Readers and editors of SAE International's Automotive Engineering International (AEI) magazine have voted General Motors' Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid and GMC Yukon Hybrid as 2008's Best Engineered Vehicles.

Germany and France were still far from resolving their differences concerning the EC's proposed 130 g/km CO limit for cars from 2012 at a meeting of Council of Europe officials on 16th April , according to the German Handelsblatt paper