(April 10, 2015) BRENTWOOD, Essex, UK — Ford retained clear UK market leadership in March with its commercial vehicle range contributing 16,497 units to the 79,963 total vehicle sales. In its 50th year as UK commercial vehicle sales leader, Ford has recorded its highest ever monthly CV sales, beating the previous record set in September last year of 15,503. 

According to the official sales figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, in the first quarter of 2015 Ford’s sales of commercial vehicles are up 43 per cent compared with the same period in 2014.

(April 9, 2015) DETROIT — The engineering team spent 9 million hours of computational time honing the driving experience of the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Camaro before the first prototype turned a wheel. The structural modeling led to the Gen 6 Camaro being 28 percent stiffer than the current model.

(April 9, 2015) Honda announced Wednesday that it will end production of the slow-selling Accord Crosstour at the end of the 2015 model year. There have been rumors that the Crosstour was on the chopping block because of slow to almost nonexistent sales. Honda said that terminating the Accord derivative will enable Honda to build more CR-V and Acura RDX crossovers at its East Liberty, Ohio, plant. Both are strong sellers for Honda.

(April 8, 2015) GREENSBURG, Ind. — Associates at Honda Manufacturing of Indiana (HMIN) today celebrated a production milestone of the 1 millionth car built at the plant. The completion of HMIN's 1 millionth vehicle comes only six years after the start of mass production at the $800 million facility on Oct. 9, 2008.