Former top Daimler executive Rainer Schmueckle will join Johnson Controls as chief operating officer of the supplier's Automotive Experience division. Schmueckle quit Daimler in 2010 after losing his position overseeing Mercedes to Wolfgang Bernhard.
Maruti Suzuki will raise production of its best selling Swift hatchback by over 40% and shift its entire output to its new Manesar factory after a month of industrial unrest there ended.
BMW will pick Sao Paolo, Brazil's biggest city, as the site for its first car assembly plant in Latin America, German business daily Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday.
Germany's car market posted year-on-year growth of 8.1% in September, a result described by the German auto importers' association VDIK as 'pleasing'.
Honda will halve exports of vehicles made in Japan over the next 10 years to tackle the rising yen, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing an interview with the automaker's chief executive.
The South African vehicle market surged by 30% in September versus year-ago levels, but the comparison was distorted by last year's industrial dispute which caused stock shortages.
Both the French Prime Minister and his Energy Secretary have been asked to intervene in the increasingly bitter dispute between Renault steel supplier Fonderie du Poitou Aluminium (FPA) and its striking unions.
In this interview, Matthew Beecham talked with Terry Graham, managing director of Zircotec. Based in Oxfordshire, England, Zircotec is a coatings company that offers a range of plasma-sprayed metal and ceramic coatings that protect against the effects of wear, heat and abrasion in automotive, motor sport and industrial applications. Just over two years ago the firm underwent a management buyout with an ensuing factory change. We spoke to Zircotec to understand how the business was changing.
Continental will focus its investments on Asia in the coming years, where sales will account for a third of the German company's total, board member Heinz-Gerhard Wente said.
New vehicle sales in Japan, excluding minivehicles, grew 1.7% last month over September 2010 to 313,790 units, the first rise in 13 months.
Hyundai and Kia posted double-digit vehicle sales growth in September, fueled by gains in key markets such as the US and China, and they now expect to outstrip earlier sales targets for this year.
Rebadging Lancias as Chryslers is not something that will worry car buyers, reckons the US brand's president and chief executive officer Saad Chehab.
Renault-Nissan plans to build a new factory and expand an existing plant in Brazil as part of efforts to boost its presence in the world's fourth largest car market.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Vincent Bollore hopes his Pininfarina-designed bubble-shaped electric cars will help clear the traffic-clogged arteries of Paris, as well as providing a charge to his new battery business.
Fiat/Chrysler's new head of global design says his biggest task is aligning the styling approval process of the two groups so that his Italian and American teams can cooperate -- if necessary -- on vehicle projects.
Hot hatch Honda legend is set to return – and the new Civic Type R will have a turbo engine
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Meet Leena Gade, race engineer who became last June the first female engineer to win the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans which earned Audi a 10th victory in the French sportscar endurance classic.
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