EU Passenger car registrations: +8.5% over four months; +9.1% in April

In April 2016, the EU passenger car registrations in the market posted strong results again, marking the 32nd consecutive month of growth.  From January to April 2016, new passenger car registrations increased by 8.5% with a total of more than 5 million units (5,094,026). This is the highest result in volume terms since April 2008,

What does it take to turn an old car into a robotic wonderland of manufacturing technology?

That is happening at Ford’s biggest European plant, in Spain’s south-eastern coastal city of Valencia. After a vehicle has been painted – using a more energy-efficient “3-Wet” painting process that applies layers without the need for each coat to dry – it is scanned by multiple hi-resolution cameras. The computer matches the surface to ideal