The Toyota EV P002 made its debut this year at the postponed
If you like the looks of early Japanese performance cars but can't afford to drop a quarter million dollars or so on a Toyota 2000GT, you've probably caught yourself eyeing old Datsuns.
GM said today its Canadian sales surged 11.6 percent to 18,756 vehicles in September. Ford's Canadian sales dropped 8 percent during the month from a year earlier, while Chrysler Canada said its sales rose 2 percent, its best September since 2000.
European Automotive Supplier body, CLEPA, continues to power its members' interests in Brussels as well as act as the Continent's arm in negotiations with its Japanese equivalent in JAPIA and American counterparts, OESA. Simon Warburton talked to CLEPA CEO, Jean-Marc Gales at last week's Paris motor show.
NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: If I had to haul a Labrador to 60 mph in 4.8 seconds, this 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 would be my vehicle of choice.
Brazilian vehicle sales plunged 31% in September from a record-breaking August as the effect of extended tax breaks wore off for consumers.
Sales of new cars fell across all major European markets in September, according to figures released this week. The UK reports its sales figures on Thursday.
Fiat will stop production at its plant in Pomigliano, Italy, for two more weeks at the end of October because of a weak European market.
Magna International has expanded its engine and transmission pump business with the acquisition of Germany's Ixetic Verwaltungs, a manufacturer of automotive vacuum, engine and transmission pumps.
Supplier Cooper-Standard Holdings is hiring Johnson Controls executive Jeffrey Edwards as its new president and CEO. Edwards will succeed longtime Cooper-Standard executive James McElya, effective Oct. 15.
Electric car technology provider Better Place said it has replaced chief executive officer Shai Agassi with the CEO of its Australia unit, five years after Agassi founded the company.
Toyota was again named the world's most valuable automotive brand in the recently published Best Global Brands 2012 by Interbrand. This year's report saw the brand valuation rise 9% top an overall top 10 place across all industries.
The Chrysler Group reported a 12 percent rise in U.S. sales in September, helped by a 27-percent increase in car deliveries and big gains at the Fiat and
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Range Rover to get plug-in hybrid tech, as JLR reveals its EV plans
On the one hand, the coming
Germany may subsidize electric cars after the next general election in order to meet a lofty goal of 1 million emission-free vehicles on the road by 2020, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Germany may subsidize electric cars after the next general election in order to meet a lofty goal of 1 million emission-free vehicles on the road by 2020, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Market leader Maruti Suzuki and utility vehicle major Mahindra and Mahindra provided some relief to the intensifying gloom in the Indian auto sector that saw most automakers registering double-digit year on year sales declines in September.
Maruti Suzuki India's domestic sales in September grew 12.7% year on year to 88,801 new cars, after a sharp 35% drop in August affected by worker violence at the Manesar facility.