After what has felt like a phoney war for much of the last couple of months, events at PSA Peugeot Citroen seem to be moving at an increasingly rapid pace.
Renault is celebrating 15 years since it opened its first plant in Brazil which has since built 1.8m vehicles and 2.9m engines.
Britain's Unite union, which represents most auto industry workers, said Thursday's announcement of 1,000 'permanent contract' jobs at four BMW plants in the UK follows a deal it struck with the automaker to make 1,000 agency workers (temps) permanent with guaranteed job security beyond 2020.
PSA Peugeot Citroen says it was not aware partner, General Motors, was about to completely sell its 7% stake in the French automaker, although it insists cost saving synergies will still go ahead.
PSA Peugeot Citroen says it was not aware partner, General Motors, was about to completely sell its 7% stake in the French automaker, although it insists cost saving synergies will still go ahead.
A group of Polish-Canadian entrepreneurs wants to revive the Syrena brand after a 30-year absence from the market. The Syrena, also known as the mermaid in Poland, was produced in the country from 1957 until 1983.
The upcoming extra-long-wheelbase Mercedes-Benz
ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: I don't know that anybody really wants a 2014 Nissan Versa Note S without power windows or power door locks.
Rube Goldberg was pretty good at concocting improbable contraptions that accomplish the simplest of tasks. Need a 20-step process for turning on a lightbulb? A way to make toast that involves elephants? He probably could have figured it out.
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13 Dec, 2013
SEAT opens up about its forthcoming Qashqai rival, on sale in 2016, and and shows us a prototype in the flesh
French supplier Plastic Omnium opened a technology center for its exterior parts division this month near Shanghai to support business growth in China.
VW Group may build an SUV for Spanish brand Seat at a Skoda plant in the Czech Republic, company sources say. Seat lacks an entry in the booming segment.
Dr Ralf Speth, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) CEO, has told journalists that after a record breaking 2013, the company is looking forward to further volume expansion and gaining a global operational footprint.
General Motors is to sell its entire 7% stake in PSA Peugeot Citroen (PSA) through a private placement to institutional investors.
Ford Motor has joined a growing list of automakers working to bring driverless cars to the market and hopes to advance the technology so that it can be installed in mainstream vehicles by 2025.
Volkswagen is replacing Jonathan Browning, its North America chief, with Michael Horn, a 23-year company veteran who currently leads the automaker's global aftersales operations. Browning's departure caps a year of struggle for VW in the U.S.
Magna Steyr, which builds cars for BMW and Mercedes, expects production at its plant in Austria to exceed 140,000 vehicles in 2013, up from 123,602 last year.
Jonathan Browning, a former GM Europe executive, has been replaced as CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, capping a year of struggle for the German brand in the United States.
GM scaled back its alliance with PSA/Peugeot-Citroen while announcing plans to sell its 7 percent stake in the French automaker in another setback for its efforts to seek growth in Europe through collaboration and partnerships.