Two former executives with Japanese supplier NGK Spark Plug had retired before they were indicted Thursday on a charge of conspiring to fix prices of spark plugs, standard oxygen sensors and air fuel ratio sensors sold to some automakers in the US...
GM will invest $1.2 billion to improve the Indiana plant where it makes full-size pickups. The investment, part of the $5.
Against the background of an overvalued Brazilian real and an expanding market (for nearly a decade), the Chinese automakers' strategy for selling cars and light commercial vehicles here has been to offer well equipped models with no available additional options.
Though Brazil sales are estimated to fall 13% to 19% in 2015, depending on the forecaster's optimism or pessimism, not all brands will be hit. The market seems more prone to shrinkage in the lower price ranges where the dominant 'older' four - automakers established here for decades - are suffering most.
General Motors sees no need to merge with another automaker to maintain profitability, the company's president, Dan Ammann, said.
Ford will start offering Londoners a network of cars to share, rather than buy, in an effort to tap the growing market for on-demand driving.
A report in the New York Times suggests that FCA chief Sergionne Marchionne approached General Motors' CEO Mary Barra to discuss combining the two corporations, but was rebuffed.
Tata Motors' quarterly profit slumped as demand for Jaguar Land Rover vehicles in China waned. Profit at the Jaguar Land Rover unit fell 33 percent to $465 million.
Jaguar Land Rover became the latest casualty of a slowdown in Chinese auto demand, reporting its steepest drop in quarterly profit in two years after retail deliveries slumped in the world's largest vehicle market.
Tarik Daoud, the longtime CEO of the former Al Long Ford in Warren, Mich., died Sunday. He was 78.
Honda Cars India has started exporting its small Jazz [Fit in some markets] to South Africa from its plant in Rajasthan where it increasing production of the model from 120,000 to 180,000 units a year.
Daimler is continuing to back Berlin as a production location with the announcement of a EUR500m (US$545m) spend to develop the city's Mercedes-Benz plant into a high-tech component factory.
Hyundai has become the first car company to offer Google's new Android Auto interface by launching it in the 2015 Sonata.
Bosch says driver assistance systems (DAS) could see European Union (EU) targets to halve traffic accidents met by 2020.
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In the last few years, the Brazilian vehicle fleet, besides growing thanks to strong market expansion, has been rejuvenated. But this began to reverse last year as combined registrations of light and heavy vehicles dipped by 9%.
Audi expects that electronics and digital features will become just as important as sheer horsepower for global automakers as they brace for a fundamental industry shift and new competitors and potential allies emerge.
The Volkswagen Group is killing off two engines in the Touareg due to the anti-pollution requirements of Euro 6 emissions regulations in EU countries.
Daimler will team up with web services company Baidu to make software available in its Mercedes cars sold in China.
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