UK sales hit a record of 2.7 million in 2016 despite fears that the country's Brexit vote could hit demand. Registrations fell 1 percent in December and the market is forecast to decline by 5 percent this year.
Toyota plans to spend years designing cars in which humans retain a large measure of control, since the goal of turning all driving decisions over to computers seems too dangerous for now.
Volkswagen Group and former CEO Martin Winterkorn must defend an investor lawsuit in California over the company's diesel emissions cheating scandal, a U.S. judge ruled.
Volkswagen's ride-sharing autonomous vehicle will borrow ideas from the Budd-e concept.
Assembly of Jaguar's all-new F-Pace began at parent Jaguar Land Rover's facility at Solihull, England, in January 2016. Output is expected to peak at more than 65,000 units in 2018, according to IHS Automotive.
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Pagani has confirmed that an open-top version of the Huayra hypercar will appear in March
After entering China in the 1980s and building an early lead, Audi enjoyed lucrative sales numbers for decades as the consumer economy took off.
BMW will dispatch a fleet of 7 series autonomous vehicles to U.S. and European cities this year as the next step in its partnership with Mobileye and Intel to introduce fully self-driving vehicles by 2021.
BMW plans to offer an augmented reality app that will allow customers to use their smart phones as virtual showrooms.
Kia is betting on a larger cabin and more trunk space to help the new-generation Picanto compete against rivals in Europe's minicar segment.
Registrations in Germany increased by nearly 4 percent in December as Toyota brand led gains among volume automakers, while the scandal-hit VW brand's sales fell sharply. Full-year sales were up 4.5 percent to 3.35 million, a seven-year high.
Electric vehicle start-up Faraday Future showed off a prototype of a vehicle set for production next year as the China-backed company strives to win credibility in the crowded sector and weather its funding challenges.
Ford and Toyota have formed a consortium with automakers including PSA and Mazda to speed development of auto-industry standards for in-vehicle apps, a step toward preventing Apple and Google from controlling how drivers connect smartphones to their...
Pininfarina's new design chief, Carlo Bonzanigo, will work on an array of automotive and industrial design projects that the Italian company has in the pipeline.
Fiat Chrysler is trying to court millennials with a futuristic vision of a 'Soccer Mom' car. The automaker on Tuesday unveiled its electric minivan concept, the Chrysler Portal, at the CES technology show.
Suddenly, Ford has become the American automaker investing in America, while GM is printing up layoff notices that will go out to 2,000 workers in Michigan and Ohio just as Trump is taking office.
Car electronics supplier Delphi Automotive went coast-to-coast in 2015 in a self-driving Audi Q5 SUV to prove the autonomous automobile had arrived. Now, the supplier is shifting from stunts to selling.
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3 Jan, 2017
Garmin tie-up announced at CES 2017 with intelligent driving video recorder tech to be installed as standard
U.S. chip maker Intel plans to take a 15 percent stake in German digital mapping firm Here, it said today, as it seeks to build its presence in automated driving technology.
Billionaire Carl Icahn's investment firm, Icahn Enterprises LP, sweetened its offer for a third time to buy shares of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corp. it does not already own.