The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras signed a Letter of Intent with Fraunhofer Institute IWU, Germany to establish an Applied Centre for Advanced Automotive Research (CAAR). CAAR is envisaged to be a Centre of Excellence focusing on providing research solutions to the automotive industries through focussed R&D in association with the talent and capabilities at IIT Madras and the experience and delivery mechanisms developed at the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany. Some of the areas of interest for CAAR will include frontiers in light-weighting, advanced manufacturing, emission, NVH, engineering design and materials of interest to the automotive sector.