Mazda will join the 40-mpg club when the freshened 2012 Mazda3 goes on sale in late summer with a new 2.0-liter gasoline direct-injection engine and new transmission.
Toyota is conducting a voluntary U.S. safety recall for certain 2007 and 2008 RAV4 models and 2008 Highlanders for a problem with airbag sensors.
The Obama administration and the electric-vehicle industry agree that they must turbocharge sales efforts to meet the president's goal of having 1 million EVs on the road by 2015, the head of the Electric Drive Transportation Association said.
A key Senate Democrat is scrutinizing an Obama administration proposal to transform the $7,500 tax credit for electric-vehicle buyers to a comparable rebate at the point of purchase, an aide to the U.S. senator said. Sen.
Also in this episode, Fiat increases its stake in Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz plans to bring the new A-class car to the U.S. and Scion shows a sporty car that joins the lineup next year.
To help fund global relief efforts, Mini will auction four Countrymans emblazoned with the makeup likeness and autographs of Kiss band members.
Toyota Motor Corp. said today it would recall about 308,000 RAV4 and Highlander SUVs because of the risk airbags sensors could fail and cause the curtain airbags to deploy.
As a trend towards Chinese automakers' joint ventures with foreign automakers developing new own brands to target new markets - particularly the 'tier 3 and tier 4 inland cities - gathers pace, one of GM's is already talking expansion.
Principal union at Fiat's Officine Automobilistiche di Grugliasco plant near Turin, FIOM, is to ballot all workers on 2 May concerning the automaker's plans for the site.
The redesigned Kia Rio will be the Korean automaker's first gasoline-powered vehicle to achieve 40 mpg on the highway when it goes on sale late this year. The 2012 Rio sedan made its global debut at the New York auto show today.
Just two years after its launch, Kia is updating the Soul for 2012 with performance and technology improvements. The Rio gets a makeover, too.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: The A6, for me, remains the and#8220;just rightand#8221; size from Goldilocks. The A4 is a bit too small while the A8, beautiful in every sense, is a big car.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: The A6, for me, remains the and#8220;just rightand#8221; size from Goldilocks. The A4 is a bit too small while the A8, beautiful in every sense, is a big car.
"Saab's way of communicating is a catastrophe," FKG managing director Sven-Ake Berglie said this week in Sweden. "They must have seen this [the cessation of parts shipments] coming up before in December already, but they did not say anything." And: "When the suppliers did not get paid, Saab said it was a few [of them] and it was due to the [fact] the suppliers wanted improved payment terms, which was a complete lie." Not perhaps the best endorsement of an automaker customer by the head of its supplier group. And still the assembly line lies silent.
Nissan Motor Co. will pick up the pace for deliveries of the electric Leaf sedan in the United States, despite production headaches across Japan due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and will begin accepting new orders for the car.
Fiat has announced that it has reached a deal to buy an additional 16% stake in Chrysler, taking its stake to 46% and bringing the two companies even closer together.
Maybe it's a bureaucrat's revenge but it does seem a tad picky from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to have to pore over the Swedish National Debt Office's (SNDO) approval of Saab's property and loan-tweaking request.
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