Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller will meet with the top U.S. environmental regulator next week, the highest-level talks since the German automaker admitted to using software to evade emissions requirements in 580,000 U.S. vehicles.
Mitsubishi Motors has confirmed a report in Japan's Nikkei business newspaper which said the automaker was unable to find a buyer for its US factory in Normal, Illinois, and take on its workers.
While the U.S. auto industry set a sales record in 2015, the average fuel economy of light vehicles purchased last year fell below 25 mpg for the first time in nearly two years, a monthly report said.
Volkswagen may be preparing to buy back around as many as 100,000 cars in the US market, according to a German newspaper report.
Last year's record U.S. light-vehicle sales were powered by booming crossover, pickup and SUV demand while consumers gave a cold shoulder to most cars.
Plastic Omnium says Jean-Michel Szczerba, a director and Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed co-CEO.
Pioneer is exhibiting its automotive technologies which can be integrated to support Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), autonomous driving, and other vehicle elements at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Tech supplier Mobileye wants to convince automakers that join its project to create crowd-sourced maps to share their data, creating a constantly updated, global digital map to guide self-driving cars, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Amnon...
In 2009, as Chrysler was emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and Sergio Marchionne moved in to take control, no-one expected that, five years later, Jeep would become the star of the combined Fiat and Chrysler ranges.
Data from LMC Automotive suggests that China's car market enjoyed a strong surge at the end of the year as government incentives caused a spike in demand.
Western European car sales rose 8.9 percent last year but the region will likely need a continued recovery in southern markets to drive growth this year, industry experts said.
Ford said today it expects its 2015 earnings to be about $1.5 billion higher than it previously estimated, due to a change in how it will report pension gains and losses.
Hyundai Motor unveiled its first purpose-built hybrid vehicle, the Ioniq, at a pre-launch viewing at its Namyang R&D Center just outside South Korea's capital city Seoul.
Kia says production at its Slovak plant rose 4 percent in 2015 to a record 338,000 cars. Engine production jumped by 18 percent to 582,000 units, the automaker added.
News
7 Jan, 2016
British sports car brand sells 1,654 cars in 2015 and creates 250 new jobs to meet increasing demand
Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea jumped by over 42% to 24,366 units in December, from 17,120 units in the same month of last year, according to data released by Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association.
Buick will air its first-ever Super Bowl commercial during next month's broadcast, a bid to raise the brand's profile ahead of a big product-launch year.
Rolls-Royce says it has started the testing phase of an aluminium space-frame architecture, with early activity seeing new engineering mules evaluated in public around the world.
Mitsubishi Motors said today it has given up trying to find an automotive buyer for its sole assembly plant in the U.S.
Chevrolet will add a hatchback Cruze to its lineup this fall, an effort to expand the appeal of the brand's top-selling car. Chevy confirmed today that it will unveil the 2017 Cruze hatch at the Detroit auto show next week.
The latest auto news, reviews, prices, product and vehicle releases. 