Hyundai Motor affiliate Kia will have the greenest engine on the road when it launches its new Rio later this year.
Nissan Americas has announced senior leadership changes due to take place in their purchasing and planning departments, effective 1 April.
Nissan Americas has announced senior management changes in purchasing and planning effective from 1 April.
Electric vehicle maker Fisker Automotive has announced that the first Fisker Karma models will roll off of Finland contract assembler Valmet's production line on March 21.
General Motors will put the range extender system used in the Chevrolet Volt and the European Opel/Vauxhall Ampera clone into other vehicles in the future as part of its green assault on the car market.
Nissan GB is confident that local production of its electric Leaf will enable it to overcome any potential dismantling of the UK government's incentive scheme.
Opel/Vauxhall will offer an eight-year warranty for the battery system on its new Ampera plug-in hybrid.
Hyundai's UK unit has reiterated that the Veloster three-door coupe launched at the Detroit show in January and on sales later this year will be specially engineered for right hand drive markets.
French passenger car sales rose 13.7 percent year-on-year in February to 204,486 units as the country's government subsidies began to be phased out. In contrast, Spain's car sales fell 27.6 percent to 66,120 units in the same period.
Audi expects to sell more cars in the three months through March than it ever did during a first quarter. The automaker also forecasts at least 10 percent sales growth in the U.S.
VW's acquisition of an 8.2 percent stake in SGL Carbon surprised the latter's partner, BMW, signaling a potential source of conflict between the carmakers. BMW and SGL planned to invest as much as 230 million euros ($317.
All the cloak-and-dagger stuff has come to an end as Lamborghini pulled back the drape on the Aventador LP700-4, the all-wheel-drive V12 sports car that replaces the Murciélago.
Ten years after Volkswagen hinted at a return of the iconic Microbus, only to cancel the project, it's ready to try again.
Volkswagen has acquired the operating business of Porsche Holding Salzburg (PHS) as previously announced. The transfer of the automobile trading company took place at a value of EUR3.3bn today (1 March, 2011). The registered office and corporate headquarters will remain in Salzburg.
Toyota's all but production-ready FT-86 II concept unveiled in Geneva this morning shows clearly how the new sports coupe developed jointly with Subaru will look when it goes on sale in 2012.
Proton Holdings reported a net loss of MYR60.1m (US$19.7m) in the third quarter (to December 2010), compared with a profit of MYR79.7m a year earlier, prompting a fall in its share price to a 14-month low on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange yesterday.
Opel/Vauxhall has set itself an ambitious target of becoming profitable this year, despite poor fourth quarter results.
Opel/Vauxhall has set itself an ambitious target of becoming profitable this year, despite poor fourth quarter results.
Philippe Varin, CEO of French carmaker PSA, believes the European car market is performing slightly better than expected so far this year, despite the carmaker's forecast of a flat European market in 2011 at the start of the year.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally missed the glitter of the Geneva auto show to deliver a keynote speech in Germany at CeBit, Europe's leading IT fair.