When it comes to hiring hot young car designers, Detroit's automakers face tough competition from an unlikely but glamorous source: Hollywood.
If you make executive or luxury cars, you're helped by theoretically naturally higher margins than brands in the volume segments can achieve.
Volkswagen Group of America has four vehicles in the running for North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.
Wire harness market leader Yazaki, which paid the largest federal criminal fine so far in a three-year prosecution of automotive supplier price-fixing, also will shell out the largest civil settlement -- $100 million -- in related settlements.
General Motors has now agreed a compensation payout to families of 21 people killed in its cars in crashes related to faulty ignition switches.
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23 Sep, 2014
Infiniti introduces its Mercedes CLS-rival ahead of Paris show and claims it ‘will lead to future model’
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24 Sep, 2014
Drop-top TT uses retractable fabric roof and will cost around £2,200 more than the Coupe
Mazda, the most famous company from Hiroshima, may have survived the city's infamous atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, quite literally by only a split hair.
Mercedes will roll out at least 10 new plug-in hybrid models by 2017 -- starting with its flagship S-class sedan -- as the premium car manufacturer looks to fulfill strict carbon emission requirements in Europe.
An Italian consumer group is inviting car buyers to join a lawsuit against Fiat and VW over allegations that two of the automakers' vehicles were between 18 percent and 50 percent less fuel efficient than stated by the companies.
An Italian consumer group is inviting car buyers to join a lawsuit against Fiat and Volkswagen over allegations that two of the automakers' vehicles were between 18 and 50 percent less fuel efficient than stated by the companies.
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23 Sep, 2014
New name for greener, faster, more elegant BMW M3 rival: this is the Mercedes-AMG C 63
General Motors today confirmed plans to move its Cadillac brand headquarters to New York next year in a move to remake the luxury marque's image and broaden its appeal outside North America.
Tata AutoComp Systems and Magna International have signed a 50/50 joint venture agreement to provide seating systems to India's commercial vehicle industry.
CarMax Inc., the largest U.S. used-car retailer, reported a 11 percent rise in quarterly revenue as easier availability of credit boosted car sales.
Lexus plans to use more aluminium in the redesigned 2016 RX, as the company looks to shed kerb weight.
Toyota Motor reportedly is developing a mid-size sedan for sale in India.
California, which already accounts for 40% of all electric vehicles sold in the US and has more than 100,000 plug-in EVs on its roads, wants to have 1.5m zero emission vehicles by 2025.
Due to falling demand of its subcompact Panda, Fiat plans to halt production from 16 October to 27 October at its Pomigliano assembly plant in southern Italy.