The boss of Jaguar Land Rover has claimed that the UK car industry is facing a "national emergency" as new figures showed that production tumbled by a third last month.

The fate of the American car industry looks increasingly uncertain as Detroit's Big Three carmakers step up their actions to save cash while the White House continues to stall on providing some form of financial aid package.

MSPs have urged the Government to almost halve the drinkdrive limit amid claims that the current law is "outdated and fit for purpose".

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A decision from the EU Commission on Schaeffler's planned takeover of Continental is due tomorrow (19 December) but reports now suggest that Schaeffler chief executive Jürgen Geißinger plans to oust Continental chief Hubertus von Grünberg.

Nissan Motor on Thursday said its Sunderland plant in north-east England had brought forward its annual Christmas shutdown.

The Slovak government has confirmed that it will give Volkswagen a tax break to expand production at its Bratislava plant.

Transmission technoogy company Antonov says that it has secured additional customers in China and that it has received 'strong government support' for its already announced six-speed automatic transmission plant in Chong Qing.

Ford of Britain said on Thursday it had sold 11,500 new Fiestas in the 77 days since the redesigned model went on sale on 1 October - with more than 9,000 going to retail customers. The retail sales rate so

Spanish vehicle output fell 39% year on year in November, trade group ANFAC said on Thursday, noting this was the fourth consecutive month of falling production.

President George W Bush will not allow a "disorderly collapse" of the US automakers, a White House spokeswoman said on Thursday.

New vehicle sales in Japan in 2009 are likely to fall 4.9% year-on-year to 4.86m units, according to the Japanese automakers' trade association JAMA.

New registrations of commercial vehicles in Europe dropped by a record 30.8% to 169,901 units, automakers group ACEA said on Thursday.

Ford's Turkish operation it to suspend production for over three weeks after domestic and export demand slumped.

The German government now won't decide before Christmas on loan guarantees to Opel, as it had initially suggested it would.

The Turkish operations of Fiat and Renault have followed Ford Otosan by halting production for about three weeks, citing falling demand.

General Motors has insisted it will roll out the Chevrolet Volt electric car by 2010, whether not it gets government loans it has said it needs to survive into next year.