One person was killed and four others injured when a helicopter carrying five American passengers crashed in a Bahamas millionaires' playground resort.

MG may yet be a mainstream car brand again in Britain one day

The shooting of an unarmed man by a police officer was “almost inevitable” because of the tactics deployed by the Scotland Yard team, a public inquiry has been told.

The latest VW Golf is lighter, roomier and greener than ever before

You might think that a Rolls-Royce is the car that has everything, but the company has still managed to make a few improvements to the Ghost for the 2013 model year.

Volkswagen's Spanish arm, Seat, has started producing the third-generation Leon at its main plant at Martorell near Barcelona. The new car is one of the most important in the company's history.

Renault is shaking things up with the launch of its Dacia budget brand in the UK by pitching the new Sandero five-door super-mini at just £5,995. That's thousands of pounds cheaper than any alternative, and a lot less than the previously rumoured sub-£7,000 price-tag which already looked ambitious enough. In fact, it's hard to disagree with Renault's claim that the Sandero is the UK's “most affordable new car”.

‘Don’t plan your holidays – it leads to adventures’

Is Skoda's latest family car, the Rapid, up to speed?

Germany has admitted providing police training and delivering surveillance equipment worth more than €50,000 (£40,000) to Belarusian security forces, despite the country's reputation as "Europe's last dictatorship".

Kim Kardashian has a new ride. The implausibly famous reality star claims she is the first to get a set of keys to the £120,000 Mercedes G63 AMG.

A National Express driver has been arrested following the death of a motorist in a crash involving his coach.

Walter Haefner, the world's oldest billionaire, was an industrialist and philanthropist who made his fortune in the post-war car industry and the burgeoning world of computers. He remained, however, an unshowy man – despite an interest in horse-breeding and his later ownership of the successful Moyglare Stud Farm.

Hyundai has won three awards from the German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung). Two of the awards were for the interior and exterior design of the new second-generation Golf-sized i30, while the third was for the company's i-oniq concept car displayed at the Geneva Motor Show.