Mercedes is turning to human workers to support production on its assembly lines as the levels of customization now available for its models means that carmaking robots simply can't keep up.
Commercial vehicle output in the UK rose 24.4% year on year in the first month of 2016, with 6,770 new vans, trucks, buses and coaches built.
Export demand - up 65% to 3,468 vehicles - continued to fuel production. UK market output slipped 1.2% to 3,302.
Honda says it will make more cars in Japan for export to Europe and North America to improve capacity utilisation.
ZF TRW says it welcomes ever-more stringent regulation as legislation makers challenge manufacturers to come up with increasingly creative and technologically-driven solutions to real-life situations.
Plastic Omnium's Automotive division has unveiled full-year revenue up 15.6% to EUR5.6bn (US$6.2bn).
Tata Steel says Karl Koehler is to step down as a director of Tata Steel and as CEO and managing director of Tata Steel Europe to take up a senior leadership position with a large privately-owned industrial company in Germany.
Ford will definitely replace its Ka minicar in Europe, the automaker's No.2 in the region, Barb Samardzich, said. "It's coming," she said on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in Spain.
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche has ruled out investing in battery cell production for electric cars with other German premium brands for at least another few years citing a massive overcapacity in the market that has turned cells into a commodity.
Zipcar is set to offer one-way trips within some North American markets as part of a larger push to increase flexibility in its offerings.
A federal judge will hold a hearing Thursday that may offer the first details on any progress in settling over 500 lawsuits filed against VW, supplier Bosch and many current and former top executives over excess emissions in 580,000 U.S.
Dealership software company CDK Global has acquired two inventory-management platforms: NewCarIQ and RedBumper.
U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal today renewed their call for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to accelerate the recall of potentially defective Takata airbags.
Tesla, which has battled dealers over its practice of selling cars directly to U.S. consumers, is accusing GM of being the driving force behind a bill to kick Tesla out of Indiana.
Chevrolet wants the Facebook crowd to not just 'like' the new Malibu -- it wants people to 'love' it.
A Morgan Stanley analyst says profits at General Motors and Ford are more at risk in a recession than the automakers have estimated.
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Lithia Motors' net income rose 16 percent to $47.7 million in the fourth quarter on strong sales across all operations, the nation's eighth-largest dealership group said today.
Tesla said it would tow its customers' cars for up to 500 miles to its nearest service center in North America for free.
Honda Motor named Asako Suzuki as its first female operating officer as part of a management reshuffle that will also see it promote its top executive in China to a company executive vice president.