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The Belgian Alain Visser is Lynk & Co’s CEO, the Chinese Geely daughter who intends to change things on the car market. Many new and sometimes controversial ideas come from or are stimulated by the CEO — no better reason […]
On Monday, the shareholders of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and Peugeot S.A. (PSA) approved the merger of FCA and Groupe PSA to create Stellantis N.V. by an overwhelming majority (with more than 99% of the votes cast in favor of […]
Oliver Zipse, the CEO of the German car manufacturer BMW Group, will lead the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) in 2021. Mr. Zipse was appointed President of the association during a meeting of its Board of Directors, composed of the […]
Roland D’Ieteren, the enigmatic car lover and former CEO and President of the family company D’Ieteren, has died on Thursday from the coronavirus’s effects. For 30 years, he was the CEO of his family business, founded by Jean-Joseph D’Ieteren in […]
In March of this year, Belgian car designer Luc Donckerwolke seemed to be leaving Hyundai through the back door. Today, he’s coming back as Chief Creative Officer (CCO), a new prominent position apparently created for him. Donckerwolke resumes his career […]
From the 1st of December, Volvo Belux will have a new Managing Director. Elfi Janssens will succeed Wim Maes, who left his Belgian position to become MD of Volvo Russia. We messaged about his departure in mid-September. Elfi Janssens (54) […]
Brussels Airport expects the first large loads of corona vaccines to arrive as soon as mid-October. The Belgian airport has major trump cards to become an important hub for the intercontinental transport of corona vaccines, they believe. Last week, the […]
Wim Maes, the current managing director of Volvo car Belux, will be assuming the same function as MD at Volvo Cars Russia as of the 1st of November. Wim Maes became the Belux MD in April 2013. “I’m sure that […]
There seems to be a bromance growing between Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, and Volkswagen Group CEO, Herbert Diess. During his last visit to Germany, Elon Musk’s private plane left Berlin for a small detour to the airport of Braunschweig. There, […]
Ashwani Gupta, a lively Indian in his early fifties, has the most difficult task at Nissan: making the failing Japanese number two profitable again. At Nissan, he’s COO, member of the board, director of operations, and performance. In short, he’s […]
Osamu Masuko, the man who has led Mitsubishi Motors for the last 15 years, has died last week (on Thursday) at the age of 71. In a press release, the company said Masuko died of heart failure. On the 7th […]
Trevor Milton, 38-year old founder and chairman of electric truck maker Nikola, has given away six million of his specific shares in the company to the first few employees who joined him. At the current rate, the shares represent a […]
The family-owned Antwerp wholesaler Deldo is a top name in the world of car tires. It’s the second-largest tire dealer in Europe but few consumers know the name.”We rather not show off and prefer to operate in the shadow,” the […]
Jim Hackett, Ford’s CEO since 2017, is leaving the company and will be succeeded by James D. Farley, at the moment COO of the Dearborn-based car manufacturer. Farley is a real ‘car guy’ who began his career at Ford in […]
The Belgian Federal government has appointed Benoît Gilson (46) as Infrabel’s new CEO. He follows in the footsteps of Luc Lallemand, who left for the French railway infrastructure operator at the beginning of this year. Ann Billiau has since led […]
Luca de Meo is officially the new CEO of Renault since the 1st of July. He has started his new job with a bang. After taking the chief designer of Seat, Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos, with him (announced last Monday), he has […]
Thierry Bolloré, the former CEO of Renault, has been appointed as the new CEO of the Tata-owned car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover. The Indian group Tata Motors has communicated that Mr. Bolloré will take over from Ralph Speth on the […]
The American company Fisker, which is working on the development of the Ocean, an electric urban 4×4 (SUV), announced on Monday that it would go public via a merger with a subsidiary of the investment company Apollo, valuing it at […]
Elon Musk celebrates his victory against critical short-sellers in a typical way. Anyone visiting Tesla’s webshop will find a striking addition: bright red shorts. The shorts are provided with the car manufacturer’s logo at the front and the inscription ‘sexy’ […]
Citroën’s new, small, two-seater EV is now available for sale in 39 shops of the French electronics and book retailer Fnac Darty. Starting from 6 000 euros or 20 euros per month, the Citroën Ami is a microcar aimed at […]
On Wednesday, Luca de Meo, former head of Seat, is taking control of Renault as the new CEO. The Italian-born 53-year-old gets the difficult task of putting back on its feet a company traumatized by the fall of Ghosn, shaken […]
The nine billion euros rescue package that Lufthansa has negotiated with the German state council could fail for lack of sufficient support from its shareholders. The German billionaire, Heinz Hermann Thiele, who recently increased his stake in Lufthansa to 15%, […]
The next Lotus sports car to be launched in 2021 will be powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE). But after that last gasoline hurrah, all of the brand’s future products will be EVs, starting with the Evija hypercar. Lotus […]
How is the car business waking up after the corona confinement? Belgian newspaper L’Echo asked Stéphane Sertang, CEO of the car dealer group Ginion, how he sees things. Ginion Group covers a certain amount of (usually premium or high-end luxury) […]
There’s a possibility that the VW Group CEO Herbert Diess will be gently led to the exit. On Monday, Volkswagen announced that COO Ralf Brandstätter (51) will take over as CEO of the Volkswagen brand, starting the 1st of July. […]
Today, MG launches an electric SUV model in the B-segment on the Belgian market. Apart from the British name tag, it is the first fully Chinese EV-SUV available here. We drove it, and it is something to reckon with. With […]
Both visionary and controversially, Elon Musk has more than a reason to dance these days, as it looks he is ‘on schedule’ to cash his first 346 million dollars bonus of the 50 billion he will get if all targets […]
Axel Miller (54), ex-CEO of D’Ieteren, and former CEO of Belgium’s now state-owned Dexia Bank found a new job as Chief of Cabinet at the Belgian liberal party MR. He fills in the vacancy Gaëlle Smet left when she moved […]
Carlos Ghosn, former number one of the Alliance Renault/Nissan/Mitsubishi, has arrived in Libanon on Monday, despite the fact that he was confined to stay in Japan. There he was waiting to be judged in a fraud affair that broke out […]
Travis Kalanick (43), the former CEO of ride-hailing giant Uber, slammed the door shut at the company he co-founded in 2009. It didn’t leave him a pauper, as he first cashed in most of his shares for a tidy sum […]
It’s now official. According to the French news agency AFP, the Board of Renault would prefer actual Seat CEO, Luca de Meo, to become the new boss of the French car manufacturer. The rumor was already running for a month […]
California-based Fisker Inc., the manufacturer of eco-friendly electric vehicles, has opened reservations for the Fisker Ocean, an electric luxury SUV arriving in 2022. It will feature ‘a new owner experience’ as it would be available starting at 379 dollars a […]
It’s official: Dutchman Bram Schot, who is leading Audi since the fall of Rupert Stadler, is leaving Audi. German Markus Düsmann, ex-BMW, is taking the helm from April. Schot faced difficult times with Audi having to cut costs drastically and […]
Flanders already committed itself a while ago to DAB+ (Digital Audio Broadcasting); now Wallonia has jumped on the bandwagon. More and more instances want people to move from FM radio to DAB+, but the consumer is only following hesitantly. In […]
On Thursday, Volkswagen presented the eighth generation of its Golf, the most successful model in its history. With all hopes put on the fully electric I.D. 3, the Golf’s success isn’t vital to the company’s future anymore, but it remains […]
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