Fifty-eight years ago, on June 30, 1953, the first production Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the temporary assembly line in Flint, Mich.
Fifty-eight years ago, on June 30, 1953, the first production Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the temporary assembly line in Flint, Mich.
GM-AvtoVAZ, the joint venture between General Motors and Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ, plans to increase its output to 58,000 vehicles in 2011 from the 52,000 cars initially planned because of growing demand, Jeffrey Glover, the joint venture's managing director, said.
Jet-turbine whine or the thrum of a traditional engine? Help Ford pick the low-speed noise the Focus Electric will make.
Foreign OEMs should view Russia not as a difficult market but rather a "different" environment that presents significant opportunities with up to US$5bn estimated to be spent by overseas manufacturers in the next two years.
Research firm IHS Automotive forecasts that the Chinese vehicle market will surpass a staggering 30m vehicles a year by 2020.
Chrysler Group has launched an additional new model in Mexico, the Dodge i10. Like that market's other two exclusive small cars, the Atos by Dodge and Dodge Attitude, the new small car is built by Hyundai Motor India (HMIL).
Figures released by ACEA show that the commercial vehicle market in the EU is expanding strongly this year.
General Motors' Australian unit Holden will lose its Cruze small car programme unless the federal government pledges millions to secure the next generation model within a year, the company has said, according to local media reports.
Russia's GAZ group will not return to selling own-brand cars and may instead expand its production partnerships with VW and GM, Bo Andersson, GAZ president said.
Auto sales in the United States are expected to rebound in June after a slowdown in May, a recovery limited by shortages of vehicles from Toyota and Honda that led some would-be consumers to put off buying.
More than half the new cars built worldwide by 2016 will have start-stop technology, three times as many as today, according to Johnson Controls.
Russia's largest carmaker, Gaz Group owned by billionaire Oleg Deripaska, earned RUB2.1bn (US$74.34m) in net profit in 2010, company president Bo Andersson said.
Fuyao, China's largest automotive glass maker, says it will build a plant in central Russia's Kaluzhskaya Oblast region to supply automakers in Russia.
Mazda Motor Corporation assembly plants in Japan are back to normal operational levels, including overtime and holiday shifts, the company said as it predicted it would be able to achieve a domestic production volume of 900,000 units during the current fiscal year ending 31 March, 2012.
Renault and alliance partner Nissan could take control of AvtoVAZ, Russia's largest car company and the maker of Ladas, as soon as next month, according to media reports.
As expected, the degree of interest from producers, suppliers, experts and the government itself was evident throughout the recent Ethanol Summit 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Our BMW 550i xDrive arrived in Detroit just in time to ferry us through one of the snowiest winters southern Michigan has recorded in a century.
Our BMW 550i xDrive arrived in Detroit just in time to ferry us through one of the snowiest winters southern Michigan has recorded in a century.
Our BMW 550i xDrive arrived in Detroit just in time to ferry us through one of the snowiest winters southern Michigan has recorded in a century.