Supplier Magna International and Canada's province of Ontario, the centre of the country's car industry, have announced plans to invest C$432m (US$441m) over six years to develop electric vehicle technologies. Ontario's contribution will be C$48.4m.
Tata Motors has resumed production at its Sanand plant where the low cost Nano is manufactured. The plant was shut for a fortnight as inventory rose.
Some 1,000 workers at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant in India are currently staging a sit-down protest at what they claim is a lack of union recognition, with a national labour body hinting the dispute could escalate.
BMW, facing higher fuel-efficiency requirements under the Obama administration, is bringing four-cylinder engines back to the U.S. 12 years after it quit offering the slow-selling option.
BMW, facing higher fuel-efficiency requirements under the Obama administration, is bringing four-cylinder engines back to the U.S. 12 years after it quit offering the slow-selling option.
Volkswagen SA has set itself a target of knocking Toyota off the best-seller perch by 2018 at the latest, managing director David Powels told reporters. Toyota has been the best-selling brand for 25 years.
Fiat European sales boss Andrea Formica has left the automaker less than a year after arriving from Toyota Motor Europe to help turn around the company's struggling automotive division.
UK vehicle test and development organisation MIRA is setting up a R$12m (US$7.5m) laboratory in Brazil to test electromagnetic interferences.
Bespoke projects division to be offered by McLaren Automotive
Updated version of new Porsche Cayman and Lotus Evora-rivalling mid-engined sports car is revealed
Alfa Romeo reveals updated version of new Porsche Cayman and Lotus Evora-rivalling mid-engined sports car
Assembly of Mazda's 2 will begin in Vietnam in October.
Proton Holdings reported a 95% drop in net earnings to MYR4.5m in the first quarter of the current financial 2011, ending in June, compared with a MYR84.7m a year earlier.
Just about everything Martin Winterkorn touches turns to gold these days. As head of Volkswagen Group, he has gone on record saying that the car company will be the world's biggest by 2018. His vision looks more real than ever.
Evolutionary styling sees third-generation Panda take on smoother-edged look, efficient TwinAir engines and an £8k price tag
High-performance Jeep Grand Cherokee will debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month
An old spectre has come back to haunt Volkswagen, J.D. Power and Associates having just published the results of its 2011 Initial Quality Survey (IQS), which puts the automaker on par with MINI in 29th place out of 30 brands evaluated, with 131 problems per 100 new vehicles sold.
Alfa Romeo hasn't sit still following the successful debut of the 4C concept at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, despite receiving much praise for its breathtaking supercar. The Italian automaker just announced that a revised and improved version is headed to Frankfurt in September.
Dan Neil, the Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive journalist who now writes for the Wall Street Journal, bet Tesla Motors president and CEO Elon Musk $1 million that the company's Model S won't meet delivery schedules.
While Toyota was launching with much fanfare the 2012 Camry on August 23 (dancers, confetti and giant screen included), Nissan used Twitter to pull the rug out from under its rival's feet and promote its own products. Unfair competition or not, it turned out to be a stroke of genius.
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