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While smart cars are a 21st century thing, the convenience has a darker side. Researchers have shown that it takes a tool as cheap as $40 to bypass the “keyless system” in tens of millions of Volkswagen cars, including Audis and SEATs.Four European researchers say hackers can easily eavesdrop on the signal which is sent every time a driver presses their key fob to lock or unlock a car. All the thieves need is a cheap technical device and to be somewhere within 100 meters of a vehicle. Flavio Garcia and his team at the University of Birmingham reverse-engineered an undisclosed compo...
The recent decision of the United Kingdom to abandon the European Union, makes analysts forecast that automakers' profits will drop by billions of dollars and new-vehicle sales will be cut by nearly a million units over the next three years.After the results of the historic vote were announced the shares of suppliers and dealership groups with significant exposure to the U.K., as well as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles became particularly vulnerable. The U.K. auto market has surged in recent years to hit a record high of 2.6 million cars in 2015. Ninety percent of those vehic...
The French PSA Peugeot Citroen is now turning its attention to international growth, and North America is among the first markets being considered. Citroen sold its last car in the United States in 1974, and Peugeot did so in 1991, now they intend to be back.The company's Back in the Race restructuring program has been successfully completed and the next step they planned is to conquer the U.S.market. Citroen's fledgling upscale DS brand could lead the company's export efforts. The DS brand, launched in 2010 and sold in China and Europe, is to Citroen what ...
Italian transport design studio Pininfarina, which specializes in creating sports cars for brands like Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Peugeot, Maserati, and Rolls Royce has been acquired by Indian Mahindra.Mahindra, a massive conglomerate based in India, will pay around $28 million for 76-percent of the Italian design house, and plans to make offers for the remaining 24 percent. Those tracking the deal were surprised that the acquisition is being made through Tech Mahindra, rather than parent Mahindra & Mahindra, which makes SUVs, tractors and other vehicles. But we know that the Cambiano, Italy-bas...
Volkswagen sold fewer vehicles in October, but still more than anybody else in Europe.The VW statistics:Seat car sales declined 11.2%Skoda car sales declined 2.9%Volkswagen lost 0.8%Audi cars sales grew with 3.5%Porsche sales grew with 13.3%The German automaker's sales volume dropped with 0.8% in October and now makes up 25.2% of all cars sold on the continent. Before the scandal broke, that figure stood at 26.1 per cent.Across all brands, 1.14 million vehicles were sold in Europe in October. That's an increase of 2.7% from September's level.German luxury carmakers BMW and Daimler ...
