VW, Skoda and Seat sales fell last month in Germany in a market where total registrations rose 3.3 percent. VW brand sales declined by 8.6 percent in a sign that the automaker's diesel scandal may be deterring buyers.
In Kia's Super Bowl 50 ad, the redesigned 2016 Optima is like the world's most exciting pair of socks.
Renault-Nissan will develop an affordable electric car for China because the alliance's current offering, the Nissan Leaf, is too expensive for the local market.
Under deadline Tuesday, Volkswagen Group of America submitted to U.S. and California regulators a draft plan to recall and repair thousands of 3.0-liter diesel vehicles containing illegal emissions software.
Toyota today said it is recalling about 320,000 vehicles from the 2003-06 model years for an airbag-related defect.
Despite supply constraints, Subaru reported a record January and a U.S. sales increase of 0.7 percent compared with a year earlier to 41,101 vehicles.
Toyota Motor Credit has agreed to pay up to $21.9 million and limit its retail margins on auto loans to settle U.S. Department of Justice and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau allegations that it overcharged minority borrowers on their auto loans.
Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris will leave the company after the completion of its merger with DuPont Co., marking a victory for activist investor Dan Loeb, who had called for his removal.
Ferrari said sales growth will probably slow down in its first full year of independence from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, sending the shares to their lowest level since the supercar maker's Oct. 21 initial public offering in New York.
Toyota Motor Sales started 2016 with a tap on the brakes, reporting a 4.7 percent decline in January sales from a year ago to 161,283 vehicles.
Facing challenges from both calendar and climate, American Honda Motor Co. reported 100,497 sales for January, a 1.7 percent decrease from a year earlier.
Mazda issued two recalls covering all of its 2014-16 CX-5 crossovers in the U.S. for potential fuel leak concerns, in addition to 2004-06 pickups equipped with Takata airbags.
Automakers reported a robust 10 percent gain in Canada for January, even as forecasters expect demand in Canada for light vehicles and trucks to level off this year following a record-breaking 2015.
January U.S. sales at Hyundai-Kia were mostly flat but rose just enough to give the brands their best-ever starts to a year.
Ally Financial's fourth-quarter and full-year 2015 profit and net income rose, while auto loan and lease originations remained relatively flat or increased slightly, despite GM's switch to lease exclusivity with GM Financial.
General Motors has asked a judge to reject efforts by a lawyer who first publicly exposed a faulty ignition switch in GM vehicles to undo a settlement fund resolving 1,380 death and injury lawsuits.
Airbag and seat belt supplier Key Safety Systems Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Chinese auto conglomerate Ningbo Joyson Electronic Corp. in a $920 million deal.
Ford Motor said its retail sales fell 11 percent in January, and a rise in deliveries to car-rental companies wasn't able to fully offset the decline.
Nissan brand U.S. sales rose 3 percent in a winter storm-wracked January as crossovers and trucks gained traction.
The purely electric and distantly Microbus-related Volkswagen BUDD-e will see production in the near future, Britain's Car magazine reports.
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