Volkswagen has opened a new engine plant in Silao in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the group's 100th plant worldwide.
American Honda's top sales executive chided automakers caught by federal regulators for overstating their fuel economy numbers.
A sharp focus on responding to Internet leads has allowed Chrysler Group to dramatically decrease both the number of lost leads as well as the time the average customer waits for a response, the automaker's head of United States and Canadian sales...
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16 Jan, 2013
The powerful Mercedes GLA 45 AMG has been spied testing in Scandinavia
The BMW Group has said that it intends to grow in the US in the current year helped by the introduction of new models, including diesel variants.
The AEB has announced that the Russian light vehicle market grew by 11% last year to reach 2.94m units.
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16 Jan, 2013
Latest pictures of the Porsche Macan, as its winter test programme begins
Spain's government may extend a car-buying subsidy program in an effort to stimulate the country's flagging car market. New-car sales in Spain fell 13 percent to 699,589 in 2012.
Bentley CEO Wolfgang Schreiber expects 2013 to be another year of growth at the carmaker as demand in the U.S. and China remains robust. Global deliveries of the super-luxury brand rose 21 percent last year to 8,500 vehicles.
GM has said it expects its global profitability to rise modestly in 2013 on an earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) adjusted basis, with improvements anticipated from each world region.
Ford concedes it took "a lot of risk" in pursuing its own path in the crisis of a few years ago, but insists it is now reaping the rewards.
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Latest spy pictures of the next Vauxhall Corsa, which will take its design cues from the Adam city car
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16 Jan, 2013
Figures show that European new car registrations fell 8.2 per cent in 2012
Data released by the European carmakers' trade body ACEA shows that the EU car market declined by 16.3% in December and was down 8.2% in 2012 as recession took hold across the region.
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16 Jan, 2013
Latest issue of Auto Express is out now, and it's a bumper 132-page special
Alan Batey, GM's head of Global Marketing, as well as US market Sales and Service, made a brief visit to his native UK earlier this week. Glenn Brooks caught up with him at a Chevrolet-sponsored event in Manchester.
A powerful coalition of activists supported by the UAW is lining up to challenge what it claims is Nissan's reluctance to allow workers at the Canton plant in Mississippi to have a trade union - although the automaker counters there is almost no appetite for organised labour.
ZF Friedrichshafen is welcoming the stance taken by German automotive industry association VDA which is urging the European Union and US to rapidly come to agreement surrounding free trade agreements (FTAs).
Ford CEO, Alan Mulally, has painted a rosy picture of the automaker following the repayment of a US$23.5bn loan that has seen strong recovery in its domestic market following the economic crisis of a few years ago.