Luxury sports car maker has reported a surge to sales and profit as its new DB11 lifts unit volumes.
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25 May, 2017
Latest car building figures show a 18.2% fall in output, with the SMMT partially blaming the Easter holidays for the drop in production
BMW's head of brand and product management, Hildegard Wortmann, will be among the speakers at the Automotive News Europe Congress in Barcelona on June 21.
Bosnia's Hastor family failed in a bid to get three representatives onto the supervisory board of German supplier Grammer at the annual shareholder meeting.
UK car production fell 18 percent in April as the number of manufacturing days in the month was reduced by a later Easter break.
India's Mahindra & Mahindra has announced plans to double electric vehicle production capacity this year, as it prepares for growing demand in its home market.
BMW says that it has ranked highly in a German survey of IT professionals.
General Motors has said it plans to reduce the workforce at its Singapore regional headquarters by over 70% this year as part of a broader programme of cutbacks at its international operations.
UK car manufacturing fell in April, according to figures released by the SMMT. Some 122,116 cars were produced in the month, an -18.2% decrease on April 2016. The SMMT said that the timing of Easter adversely impacted the April total this year.
Cox Automotive and Holman Enterprises are teaming up to#8203; expand a retail vehicle-subscription service dubbed Flexdrive.
As automakers and governments work to add more charging stations to ease electric vehicle range anxiety, Renault is touting dynamic wireless charging as a technology that could eliminate that fear.
Former Ford CEO Mark Fields, ousted by the board after the automaker's stock declined 37 percent on his watch, could walk away with about $57.5 million in compensation.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles believes a software update can address U.S. regulators' contention that its diesel vehicles are producing excess emissions, a lawyer for the company said at a court hearing on Wednesday.
GM will slash headcount at its international headquarters in Singapore as part of efforts to reduce exposure to unprofitable and unpromising markets, Reuters reported.
Tesla replaced Arnnon Geshuri, vice president of human resources, with Gaby Toledano, a former executive at video game company Electronic Arts, amid employee claims of a harsh work environment at the EV maker's California plant.
Toyota has named Volkswagen of America marketing executive Vinay Shahani its vice president of integrated marketing operations. The move is effective June 5.
New Ford CEO Jim Hackett's base salary rose from $716,000 to $1.8 million. His total compensation for this year is valued at up to $13.4 million.
Aston Martin reported its first quarterly profit in a decade, as the automaker benefits from cost cuts and demand for its new DB11 sports car.
The Supreme Court ruled that patent lawsuits must be filed on the defendant's turf, a decision expected to protect US automakers from predatory patent litigation.
Ford dealers in Europe can now service or supply parts for all makes of other vehicles following the automaker's launch of a new Omnicraft brand of replacement parts.