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German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt criticized Fiat for not showing up for a meeting to discuss emissions irregularities in its diesel vehicles. However, Fiat won the backing of Italian authorities.

Automotive News Europe salutes the winners of the 2016 Rising Stars awards. Every day through June 6 one of the 15 winners will be featured. The Rising Star for General Management is Martin Fischer of BorgWarner Turbo Systems.

The European auto industry began 2016 on a low note, with sharp falls in shareholder value for all automakers, all retailers and most partsmakers.

Assembly of the all-new Alfa Romeo Giulia began in March at parent Fiat Chrysler Automobile's factory in Cassino, Italy. Output is expected to peak at more than 55,000 units this year, according to IHS Automotive.

UAW President Dennis Williams criticized automakers for moving vehicle production to Mexico while taking issue with the notion that the union negotiated such moves last year in return for the end of tiered wages for workers and investments in U.S.

The days of lofty year-over-year increases in monthly U.S. auto sales may be reaching an end. Forecasters J.D. Power and LMC Automotive say U.S. deliveries of new light vehicles will slide 5.

Daimler said today it would set aside around 500 million euros ($560 million) this year for the recall of some of its vehicles, which contain airbags made by Takata Corp.

The two co-founders of Cruise Automation, the self-driving car startup acquired by General Motors for a reported $1 billion, settled their dispute and will dismiss their lawsuits against each other.

A group of business executives and retired U.S. military officials, aiming to reduce America's reliance on oil, called for the removal of regulatory barriers and a national policy to trump state rules to foster autonomous car deployment.

Cadillac has ended production of the ELR plug-in hybrid, the striking coupe that never recovered from an initial $79,995 price tag that many consumers and dealers deemed exorbitant.

A shortage of steering wheels is disrupting production of the Jeep Cherokee and also has slowed output of the Jeep Grand Cherokee.

PSA and Kia forecast higher production at their plants in Slovakia this year. The country is home to three car factories and will see a Jaguar Land Rover plant open in 2018.

General Motors is expanding its car-sharing service Maven to Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., nearly four months after the service was launched.

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Korean carmaker Hyundai is expected to repackage the Ioniq’s hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains in mainstream range of models

Uber is finally giving the world a peek at the car it's using to test self-driving technology.

Following the Queen's speech in the UK parliament on Wednesday (18 May) which announced the UK government would introduce a Modern Transport Bill, designed to "put Britain at the forefront of the modern transport revolution", Toyota said it was already making significant investments worldwide in future mobility technologies that would make personal transport safer, more efficient and easier to access for less able people and summarised its activities.

Mopar plans a $12.2 million, 400,000-square-foot parts distribution center late this year in northern Virginia, Fiat Chrysler's first new U.S. center since 2001.

Toyota has temporarily halted production at its San Antonio pickup plant due to storm damage.

ZF TRW has announced that it will start production of its innovative heated steering wheel technology (conductor insert heating system, or CIHS) with a major European vehicle manufacturer in 2017.