Spreading the gospel of Enzo, Ferrari opened its Myth exhibition at the Italian Center in the Shanghai Expo Park on May 18.
Volkswagen of America, riding a 38 percent increase in United States sales this year, has hired Kevin Mayer from General Motors to steer VW brand marketing.
That huge collective sigh of relief you probably heard from Merseyside (and very likely Westminster) yesterday would have been Vauxhall management, workers and politicians greeting the news from General Motors' European unit that the Ellesmere Port Astra plant is good to go until at least around 2020.
Honda is to start hybrid vehicle production in Thailand, following a similar move in the US in April.
BMW is considering new production sites around the world, including eastern Europe, according to media reports on Friday. But a BMW spokesman told Automotive News Europe today that the company has no plans add a new factory in Europe.
BMW is considering new production sites around the world, including eastern Europe, according to media reports on Friday. But a BMW spokesman told Automotive News Europe today that the company has no plans add a new factory in Europe.
BMW tends to do things in style and with just a month or two before this year's Tour de France, they turned on a bit of that glamour with the press drive yesterday (17 May) of its 640d SE Gran Coupé west of Strasbourg in the Vosges mountains.
General Motors has reshuffled its US sales team "in preparation for numerous product launches in the coming months".
Many a spring vacation starts and ends with a pile of overstuffed suitcases and backpacks crammed along with their respective owners into the family minivan, sedan or sport-utility vehicle.
UK car production rose 9.3% year on year to 94,352 units in April. Of those, 80,936 were exported, up 9.9%.
Toyota has axed the slow-selling Lexus HS 250h after fewer than three years on the market. The car was sold mostly in Japan, the US and Canada.
Data released by JATO Dynamics points to continued weakness in the European car market in April as the region continues to experience economic instability and slowdown.
Ford has begun taking orders for the C-Max hybrid in the US, claiming it is America's most affordable, fuel-efficient hybrid utility vehicle.
Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, said on Friday its net profit more than doubled in 2011 to 6.7 billion rubles (about $215.8 million). The maker of Russia's best-selling Lada cars said that its revenue grew 27 percent to 175.
Chery has applied for government permission to establish a joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover in China after the two companies signed an agreement in March to cooperate on production.
Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne's plan to improve slow sales of the Fiat and Lancia brands in Europe through rebadged Chrysler models is getting mixed results.
Chinese car dealers are struggling with a rising number of unsold cars that threaten to deepen price cuts, according to the nation's biggest automobile dealers' association.