Japanese supplier Aisin Seiki today said Yoshiaki 'Yoshi' Kato has become president of the Aisin Technical Center of America in Plymouth, Mich., near Detroit.
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Lexus has published a preview of the 2015 Lexus NX luxury compact crossover, scheduled to debut April 20 at the 2014 China auto show in Beijing.
To the delight of Mopar fans, Dodge brought back the Scat Pack last November at the SEMA show.
Some of GM's institutional investors say they're keeping faith in the stock after the recall crisis wiped out more than $3 billion in shareholders' value over four weeks.
Nissan says it has inked a four-year global partnership for the UEFA Champions League including the UEFA Super Cup, representing the automaker's largest ever sponsorship deal with the agreement running from 2014/15 to and including the 2017/18 seasons.
General Motors, in the midst of recalling 2.6 million small cars for an ignition-switch flaw that can deactivate air bags, also may have an air-bag defect connected to deadly accidents in its Chevrolet Impala, a safety group said.
General Motors Europe plans to start selling an Opel all-electric compact car no later than by 2017 to help meet EU emission targets, reports said.
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This is our first photo of the upcoming Mercedes-Benz SL400 luxury roadster, a model that effectively replaces the
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Hindustan Motors has sold its Chennai factory to its subsidiary, Hindustan Motors Finance Corporation, the company said.
Volvo Car chairman Li Shufu has told Swedish financial newspaper Dagens Industri that the company wants to achieve sales of more than 1m units annually in the long term "beyond 2020".
BMW wants to sell more ultra high-end models in India to improve profits there.
Pierre-Edouard Sorel joined Michelin in 2005. He started as a sales representative in France in trade marketing. At the end of 2007, he headed the market intelligence department of Michelin's Earthmover tyres product line and has been marketing manager for winter tyres in Europe since 2011. Sorel talked to Simon Warburton about legislation, labelling and the dealer benefits of winter tyre usage.
Toyota has worked with a group of industry partners to define what it claims is a world-first system to retrieve and recycle copper from vehicle wiring harnesses, helping secure a valuable new source of the raw material.