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While the controversy rages on about the recently concluded Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) meet in Barbados, Automotives has learnt that Jamaica has not ruled out the possibility of not taking any further part in the series.

With the rigorous demands and high costs associated with the new school year, Reginald Allen, corporate communications manager at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), is assuring parents that a safe and courteous bus service will be in place.

In a bid to modernise its operations, state-run bus company, Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), will be revamping its bus-ticketing system by the end of September.

By now, most Jamaican athletes are looking forward to next year's summer Olympics in London. Similarly, the country's top circuit racers are gearing up for a big championship engagement - not in London, but in Guyana on November 6.

Rental car company Hertz Global Holdings and General Electric plan to partner in offering electric vehicles in China and expanding the charging networks needed to run them.

FOR the third year in a row, the new-car umbrella group Automobile Dealers' Association (ADA) has cancelled its annual car show. "We're not having a show this year," Kent LaCroix, chairman of ADA, told Automotives. "Instead, we've rescheduled it for March next year."

General Motors Co is cutting its production of pickup trucks next month, a sign that truck sales aren't as robust as the company had hoped.

After yesterday's spills and thrills at the Palisadoes Raceway in Kingston, the two-day international karting carnival climaxes today with an action-packed 17-race programme.

IT IS here. Three months after making its Latin American and Caribbean debut in the high altitude of Colombia, the 2012 BMW 1-Series M coupe made its way to the tropical paradise of Jamaica.

The Pines Plaza in Junction, St Elizabeth, will come alive with adrenaline-filled fun on August 21,with the staging of Slippery Wen Wett - Gymkhana Edition, starting at 1 p.m.

Irie Racing hosted its second of four off-road races in the Caymanas flat lands of Mandela Highway recently much to the delight of the patrons on hand. The motocross events saw dirt bikes, SUVs, ATVs, trucks and jeeps all having their go on the rugged track.

China's auto sales rose 6.7 per cent in July but growth was well below the double-digit surge of the past two years, an industry group said last Wednesday.