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General Motors Co has no intention of reopening the sale process for Opel and remains intent on reaching a deal with one of the two remaining bidders as quickly as possible. Full story...

Continental AG's supervisory board is due to decide on Wednesday the fate of both its CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann and Chairman Rolf Koerfer as part of a deal that could end a feud with its controlling shareholder. Full story...

Continental AG has a new CEO following a major shake-up of its top management. Full story...

Continental AG has a new CEO following a major shake-up of its top management. Elmar Degenhart will replace Karl-Thomas Neumann, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Full story...

Continental AG has a new CEO following a major shake-up of its top management. Full story...

Continental AG's supervisory board is due to decide on Wednesday afternoon the fate of both its CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann and chairman Rolf Koerfer as part of a deal that could end a feud with its controlling shareholder. Full story...

Continental AG has a new CEO following a major shake-up of its top management. Karl-Thomas Neumann will be replaced by Elmar Degenhart, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Full story...

General Motors plans to design, develop and manufacture electric motors for its growing array of gasoline-electric hybrids and electric vehicles. Full story...

Belgian-based RHJ International will ask for less than 3 billion euros ($4.26 billion) of state aid as part of a bid for Opel, German business daily Handelsblatt reported, citing government and financial sources. Full story...

General Motors plans to design, develop and manufacture electric motors for its growing array of gasoline-electric hybrids and electric vehicles. Full story...

Belgian-based RHJ International will ask for less than 3 billion euros ($4.26 billion) of state aid as part of a bid for Opel, German business daily Handelsblatt reported, citing government and financial sources. Full story...

Brett McCormick (Suzuki), who qualified on pole for the Superbike and the Pro 600 Sport Bike races, kept his hopes of claiming his first Parts Canada Superbike Championship alive with convincing wins at the Atlantic Motorsport Park this past Sunday. Full story...

Hyundai is shaking things up at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance by announcing its intention to launch its most premium luxury sedan in the U.S. next year. Full story...

According to former Formula 1 driver Alex Zanardi, the Scuderia Ferrari should have taken a punt on promoting a young driver to replace the injured Felipe Massa. Full story...

Amerigon Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARGN), a leader in developing and marketing products based on advanced thermoelectric (TE) technologies, today announced that its proprietary Climate Control Seat(R) (CCS(R)) system will be included as a standard feature in the Touring model of the all-new 2010 Nissan 370Z Roadster. The two seat Roadster is scheduled to go on sale at Nissan retailers nationwide in late summer 2009. Full story...

Safety researchers at Volvo Car Corporation have developed a new crash-test dummy to test the company's newest active safety systems designed to prevent collisions with pedestrians. Full story...

Ferrari has vowed to "fight" for the right to field a third car in formula one races - and the Italian team's extra single seater would be reserved for Michael Schumacher. Full story...

The news that Michael Schumacher won't return to Formula 1 racing at the forthcoming European Grand Prix has disappointed many fans around the world. But for Ferrari test driver Luca Badoer, Schumacher's decision to pull out of his planned comeback in light of an aggravated neck injury is a mixed blessing. Full story...

When Honda introduced the Ridgeline at the Detroit auto show in 2004, most people thought Honda had gone a bit soft in the head. The Ridgeline was based on car type construction without an obvious frame and it wouldn't hold a sheet of plywood in the bed. Worse yet it had a car interior. Full story...

Ford's 2010 F-150 SVT Raptor is a high-performance off-road truck with an avid audience that's been waiting a long time to get behind the wheel. Able to perform both off-road and on-, the truck has been teasing fans with video clips circulating on both YouTube and the F-150 SVT Raptor Web page, and is now arriving in dealer showrooms. Full story...