With the annual Geneva car show cancelled for the first time since the Second World War era, carmakers are going virtual in a bid to wow the hordes who would otherwise descend on the Swiss city to get a closer look at the latest models.

Europe emerged as a bright spot for the embattled global car industry after car sales jumped to a record in December, but it could be short-lived.

Renault set a gloomy tone for the European car industry by slashing its outlook for revenue and profit, saying weakening economies are weighing on car sales and tougher rules on emissions have increased costs.

Renault’s Dacia has built a devoted following for its often spartan, low-cost vehicles, making it one of the French manufacturer’s fastest-growing consumer brands.

The Irish Stock Exchange has been on an interesting journey during 2019, writes Joe Gill.

The owner of Vauxhall has warned that the car giant will cease production at its Ellesmere Port factory if Brexit makes it unprofitable.

DS7 Crossback trades on its heritage and lives up to the expectations on many levels. but there are downsides. The ride is not the magic carpet experience we once loved and expected to see again, writes Declan Colley

Global carmakers as diverse as Japan’s Nissan, Germany’s Mercedes Benz-maker Daimler, and British-based Aston Martin, in new warnings about sales slowdowns, showed the huge challenges facing the industry as they try to buy time to invest in the new generation of electric and self-driving cars.

French car maker Renault posted a decline of almost 7% in first-half vehicle sales amid a global car slowdown but said a forthcoming product offensive would begin to help soften the blow in key markets.

US-Italian car maker Fiat Chrysler has made an all-share merger proposal to French rival Renault as part of a new wave of consolidation in the car industry.

Jaguar Land Rover crashed to a €4.1 billion annual loss as it was weighed down by a slump in Chinese sales.

Peugeot maker PSA Group reported a 1.1% decline in first-quarter revenue, as a sales decline outside Europe and currency challenges outweighed pricing improvements.

Agriculture minister Michael Creed has promised farmers a “substantial” aid package if they suffer losses as a result of new UK tariffs under a no-deal Brexit.

Calls on social media for violent attacks on the bailiffs in the Roscommon eviction incident are akin to “incitement of hatred” and “unacceptable”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

I’m not a ‘kick ’em while they’re down’ sort of guy, but in the case of Opel over the last five years or so, it has been very hard not to be that person, given the alarming fall from grace we have witnessed at the once great company.

French carmaker PSA said it plans to eliminate 1,300 French jobs in 2018 using a new form of voluntary cuts introduced by president Emmanuel Macron.

Jaguar Land Rover sales have risen 7% to a record 621,109 vehicles in 2017 but the UK’s biggest carmaker says it faces tough conditions in its home market due to weakening consumer confidence and a planned diesel tax rise on new cars.

PSA Group, the French carmaker which owns the Peugeot, Citroen, Vauxhall, and Opel brands, plans to cut 400 jobs at a UK plant in Ellesmere Port to adapt production to falling sales.

OPEL, a once proudly German company that rooted itself — despite its American ownership — in all things Deutsche, such as advanced engineering and design capabilities, is now French. Releve de la garde, indeed.

Renault shares posted the biggest decline in a year after first-half profit fell short of estimates and the car maker said price pressures are rising in some markets.

The French government has set out an ambitious goal for no more petrol or diesel cars to be sold in the country by 2040.

The European Union has approved French car maker PSA's acquisition of Opel and British brand Vauxhall from General Motors.

European car sales in March rose briskly as Fiat Chrysler and Renault took advantage of a solid economy to lure more buyers.

French car giant PSA Group is to buy the European operations of General Motors, including Vauxhall in the UK, for €2.2bn.

European car sales rose to a nine-year high in 2016, with French company Renault taking advantage of recovering demand and Volkswagen’s tarnished reputation to leap to second place from third in th e region.

Kya de Longchamps on how to secure the manor before that well deserved holiday. 

We first saw the Citroën C4 hatchback in 2010 and if we were relatively underwhelmed back then by the car’s ordinariness, we pretty much still are today.

Many moons ago the late Beatle John Lennon was being quizzed by the media when one bright spark asked him if Ringo [Starr, the band’s drummer] was the best drummer in the world.

Since its launch in the spring of 2010, DS 3 sold more than 320,000 units and hopes are high sales will be further boosted by the introduction of a new six-speed automatic transmission.

This touching video about a man and his dog has gone viral and has been watched more than three million times since its release.

THERE was widespread, justified acclaim for Peugeot’s second-generation 308 when it was unveiled in 2013. It won the European Car of the Year award, and the French concern moved upmarket.

More than €100m of Irish debt has been written off in the UK over the past 18 months, using a system that is simpler to use for those in financial difficulties.

Europe’s anemic car market rebound could be over before it has really begun. That is the fear of executives as they gather for the Paris car show on Thursday, the biggest industry event in the regional calendar.

The body tasked with regulating private investigators has no target date for introducing regulations despite being set up 10 years ago.

THINGS are definitely on the up chez Peugeot.

IT may be that Citroen’s parent company PSA is in the throes of a serious collapse in market share across Europe right now and that the owners are becoming increasingly keen on a sale or part-sale of the group to General Motors, but ironically the French marque has hardly been in a better place in recent times in terms of its product line-up.

I’M not a fan of Toyota’s hybrid technology, but that’s not to say many others are not and it is hard to argue with the millions of units the Japanese giant has accumulated since it launched the technology 15 years ago.

THERE can be no doubting the importance of the new 208 range to Peugeot. This is a supermini which could well contribute greatly to the future wellbeing of the great French automotive giant.

European Union car sales are still sagging despite the return of modest economic growth.

A lack of standardisation among PSA tests for prostate cancer is worrying medics and saw a patient at Connolly Hospital receive an artificially elevated reading.

PSA Peugeot Citroen said crumbling vehicle markets across Europe are behind a steep drop in its first quarter sales.

French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen has unveiled a petrol hybrid engine that stores energy using compressed air which it hopes will be a gamechanging technology to improve energy efficiency.