Euro Auto Trends

Former BMW Dingolfing plant manager Wolfgang Stadler is joining Tata Motors’ Jaguar Land Rover as director of manufacturing responsible for global operations.

JFE Steel Corporation says it will build Indonesia’s first continuous galvanising line (CGL) for automobiles at MM2100 Industrial Town, an industrial estate in the city of Bekasi, just outside Jakarta.

Sales of utility vehicles, including Renault’s popular low-cost Duster compact SUV, have been strong in an otherwise dismal year for the Indian auto industry where passenger car sales fell for the seventh straight month in May, Reuters reported.

Honda Motor has agreed with TDK Corporation and Japan Metals & Chemicals (JMC) additional joint project to reuse “rare earth metal” extracted from nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrid vehicles for the magnets of new hybrid vehicle motors.