Looking to recapture some of its past luster, Cadillac showed renderings of a concept car that will appear at a 2013 auto show.
Struggling US battery maker A123 Systems has signed an agreement to receive a US$465m financial injection from Chinese parts maker Wanxiang Group Corp.
Just as National Electric Vehicle Sweden's self-imposed - and continuously expressed - deadline of the 'end of summer' for its mooted takeover of bankrupt Saab was about to expire - along comes a huge bucket of cold water in the shape of Scania to liberally douse those flames of expectation
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17 Aug, 2012
A one-off McLaren 12C-based X-1 has been unveiled at the Pebble Beach Concours
European wagons have rarely enjoyed much success in the United States. But that hasn't deterred BMW, which will continue selling the
Toyota Motor Europe said its Prius hybrid was tops in the new and more stringent EcoTest by ADAC, Germany's largest automobile club, ahead of 55 other vehicles tested under the same new conditions.
Delphi has started operations at a new wire harness plant in Durango, Mexico, which is expected to create 3,000 new jobs and a further 6,000 indirect openings.
The Racer Trust, which holds plants that General Motors unloaded during its bankruptcy procedings, is to sell the Mansfield-Ontario stamping plant in Ohio to Brownfield Communities Development for an undisclosed amount.
A further Yazaki executive has agreed to plead guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix prices of instrument panel clusters, installed in cars sold in the US and elsewhere, the Department of Justice has announced.
New vehicle dealers in Kenya sold 1,525 units in January-February 2012, compared with 1,775 vehicles sold during the same period of 2011, according to data released by the Kenya Motor Industry Association (KMI), reports Business Monitor International (BMI).
A few new models of global interest surfaced this week, starting with the Ford EcoSport small SUV - Brazilian-designed (reportedly with help from Ford Australia) - and initially to be built in South America but now, in its second generation, also to become a global model made also in Thailand, China and India. Wonder where ours will come from?
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17 Aug, 2012
New Phantom-based special celebrates the company's aviation history
For three months our long-term Kia Rio five-door has shuttled us around town with nary a complaintand#8212;from the car or from us. The cargo hold swallows 15.
Isuzu is to construct factories in China and India to tap into local demand for pick-up trucks and to spread out production from Thailand which was hit by flooding last year.
Daimler plans to expand operations at its new plant in Hungary to double annual production to 300,000 vehicles by 2015, according to a report in the business newspaper Napi Gazdasag which cited unnamed sources familiar with the project.
Here's a brief run-down of reports available in our research store that caught our eye over the past week or so...
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17 Aug, 2012
Further development of the upcoming Jaguar F-Type