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Oct
31st

VW seeks fresh start, joins crossover crowd with Atlas

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For Volkswagen, the Atlas large crossover is more than just its first entry in the crowded and profitable field of family crossovers -- it's a new beginning.
Oct
31st

Mini-degree trains self-driving car engineers

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The rising demand for workers experienced in autonomous vehicle engineering has resulted in an unconventional training ground for new talent.
Oct
31st

ADESA, Manheim refocus on physical auctions in Chicago

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The physical auction business in the Chicago area promises to be more competitive and a lot more interesting as the nation's two auction titans gear up to go head-to-head in that market.
Oct
31st

Industry disruptions tone down Ghosn

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Today's auto industry is changing so rapidly that Carlos Ghosn -- the hard-charging Nissan Motor Co. CEO famed for his fanaticism for specific results -- will drop midterm numerical targets when he unveils his new business plan next year.
Oct
31st

Mexican auto industry closely watching U.S. elections

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The Mexican peso, which serves as a proxy for the nation's economic future, has jumped up and down for weeks as shifting polls show Hillary Clinton winning the race for the presidency or, conversely, Donald Trump closing the gap.
Oct
31st

Ram to build current 1500 pickup into ’19

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Fiat Chrysler will build the current version of the Ram light-duty pickup well into 2019, even after it launches a redesigned Ram 1500 in early 2018, Automotive News has learned.
Oct
31st

Galpin’s chef: From 5-star fare to dealership kitchen

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In 2002, Geovannni Euceda gave up his position as chef at the swank Beverly Hills Hotel.  He's been running an industry rarity -- a successful restaurant inside a car dealership -- ever since.
Oct
31st

Ford, Unifor make &’minor progress&’ toward Canada labor pact, union says

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Bargainers for Ford Motor Co. and Canadian union Unifor made only 'minor progress' toward a new labor pact on Monday as an 11:59 p.m. EDT strike deadline approached.
Oct
30th

Nissan Navara in the Sahara: extreme off-roading in the sand dunes

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Nissan NP300 Navara pick-up dune - sand driving
Features 2 Nov, 2016

We thrash the Nissan Navara pick-up in Morocco to see if trucks are still as tough as they used to be

Oct
30th

Nissan Navara meets sand dunes – pictures

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Oct
30th

Cheap gas expected to stay after vote

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Energy policy has taken a back seat to controversies about emails and old videotape in the presidential campaign, but few issues mean more to the auto industry.
Oct
30th

GM up, Ford down. Why?

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General Motors and Ford Motor Co. both posted single-digit U.S. sales declines in the third quarter.
Oct
30th

AutoNation: Used market ‘ripe for disruption’

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AutoNation is joining some of its competitors in opening standalone used-only stores. AutoNation will invest up to $375 million in the AutoNation USA stores in the next few years.
Oct
29th

Nissan said to have informed UK that car plant would be closed

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Nissan's decision to keep investing in Britain came after the carmaker told the government it might shut down manufacturing in the country after Brexit, according to a person familiar with the private discussions.
Oct
29th

Tesla’s Musk adds solar roofs to his clean energy vision

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday unveiled new energy products aimed at illustrating the benefits of combining his electric car and battery maker with solar installer SolarCity Corp.
Oct
29th

Renault’s top female exec predicts more industry consolidation

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Renault's Mouna Sepehri, a key adviser to Carlos Ghosn, sees transactions such as Nissan's purchase of a controlling stake in Mitsubishi as adding much-needed economies of scale.
Oct
29th

Toyota pumps up truck supply to combat falling sales

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Toyota's U.S. sales are trending downward for the first time since 2011. The automaker's global competitiveness chief, Didier Leroy, says the remedy will be to open the pipes for more light trucks.
Oct
29th

Chrysler 200 sales lower in FCA recount

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The largest difference between Fiat Chrysler's originally reported monthly sales figures from 2015 and their subsequent restatement so far revolves around the Chrysler 200 sedan -- a car the automaker invested in heavily and needed to be a hit.
Oct
29th

Reliving the golden era of French luxury

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Three-quarters of a century ago, French carmakers could go toe-to-toe with the world's best when it came to boundary-pushing style and grace.
Oct
29th

U.S. sales a rare bright spot for Mitsubishi

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Mitsubishi's pint-sized North American business has suddenly emerged as a sales anchor in a year of tumbling volume. While Mitsubishi's volume collapsed in virtually every other global market in the fiscal first half ended Sept.
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