Renault will announce plans within months to build more vehicles for Daimler or alliance partner Nissan after reaching a new deal with unions.
Professional wheelman Tanner Foust is teaming up with Cobb Tuning to create the Tanner Foust Edition Ford Focus ST. The car will go on sale later this year.
Federal safety regulators are looking at three General Motors vehicles for potential brake light defects that could result in a recall of more than a million midsize vehicles.
Daimler Trucks has forecast a weak first quarter due to falling orders in Europe and the US with improvement expected only in the second half, division chief Andreas Renschler said.
Renault is no longer working with Daimler to develop an upscale sedan for the French automaker. Renault has stopped a feasibility study for the model, based on the Mercedes' E class platform, the automaker said.
PSA Peugeot Citroen says it will hold a Works Council meeting next Monday (18 March) in Paris in a bid to secure agreement from its many unions on proposed restructuring, despite the bitter continuing strike at the Aulnay plant.
Beijing is expected to announce a series of preferential policies for electric vehicles (EVs) in the first half of 2013. Meanwhile, Shanghai is planning a rental programme for EVs.
The car sales growth rate in India dropped to a twelve-year low in February, as high fuel prices, rising interest rates and a slow economy continued to hit consumer demand.
Figures released by LMC Automotive show that the global light vehicle market was running at a seasonally adjusted annualised rate (SAAR) of 82.7m units in the first two months of the year.
Figures released by LMC Automotive show that the global light vehicle market was running at a seasonally adjusted annualised rate (SAAR) of 82.7m units in the first two months of the year.
Magna International says former Opel CEO, Karl-Friedrich Stracke, will join its Magna Steyr division from 1 April.
Renault has secured more than 60% workforce approval today (13 March) for its radical restructuring plan that will see increased volume and no factory closures in exchange for swingeing redundancies, although the powerful CGT union's signature is glaringly absent.
BMW plans to hire Peter Schwarzenbauer, the former Audi sales chief, as part of an effort to tighten its grip on the premium segment's top spot, sources said.
BMW plans to hire Peter Schwarzenbauer, the former Audi sales chief, as part of an effort to tighten its grip on the premium segment's top spot, sources said.
Porsche has begun hiring 1,000 new workers as trial body production for the Macan small SUV they will build began at the Leipzig plant, south of Berlin in eastern Germany.
Mercedes-Benz sold 90,083 cars in February 2013, down from 95,647 a year ago but up 1.3% year to date to 184,978.
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