Goodwood Festival of Speed confirms its very own British motor show that allows you to drive cars up the famous hill
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Mitsubishi Motors is to invest nearly 800m reais (US$448m) up to 2015 to build the Pajero Dakar jeep and Lancer Sedan.
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Nissan Motor Co. said it will build the new Leaf electric vehicle at Britain's Sunderland assembly plant starting in early 2013, with initial capacity of 50,000 units.
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Don't be careful what you wish for; wish for exactly what you want. You might get it. Want an STI with more performance but at a lower cost? Willing to give up a few minor features to get it? Then the WRX STI Special Edition is for you.
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Kia will invest 100 million euros ($136.6 million) to build a new engine plant at its assembly site in Slovakia.
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Porsche sits atop the annual U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study rankings released by J.D. Power and Associates on Thursday.
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Ford says it is preparing to invest GBP1.5bn in its four UK facilities over the next five years after securing a GBP360m UK government loan guarantee.
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Plans to turn UK household waste into biofuels could see savings of up to three million car emissions annually.
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Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) plans to invest 10 billion yuan in its Nanjing operations by 2015 and has just commenced operations at a new facility.
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Volkswagen is officially creating a company to develop sporty cars, called Volkswagen R GmbH.
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Japanese firm puts faith in British plant to build its groundbreaking electric car
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UK car production rose 62.7% year-on-year to 97,255 units in February, though the comparison is against severely depleted production levels in early 2009 as the industry wound down stocks in the wake of recession and sharply lower orders.
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Under pressure AvtoVAZ is planning a further downsizing of its workforce, but don't expect anything too dramatic on top of reductions that have already happened.
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Porsche sits atop the annual U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study released by J.D. Power and Associates today. The German sports car maker rose from 11th place to lead the annual study of 3-year-old vehicles.
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Sales of cars, trucks and buses in Japan in fiscal 2010 beginning April are expected to drop 4.9% from the previous year to a 33-year low of 4,649,600 units, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) has said.
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British car production rose for the fourth successive month in February, with weaker sterling cited as one of the factors helping the industry. Car output rose 62.
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Pirelli has presented the 'Scorpion Verde', described as the first high-performance eco-friendly tyre for SUVs and Crossovers at the Idiada International Testing Circuit in Barcelona.
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Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding is to take a controlling stake in taxi manufacturer Manganese Bronze.
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Indonesia's new vehicle market expanded by 61.4% year-on-year to 55,688 units in February, from depressed sales of 34,506 units a year earlier, according to industry data.
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