Western European car sales rose 9.5 percent in January on buoyant demand in Germany, France, Italy and Spain, according to industry data compiled by LMC Automotive.
After a four-year drop, Russia's car market looks to have bottomed out, leaving manufacturers optimistic that 2017 will bring signs of recovery for a market with the potential to become Europe's biggest for new-car sales.
UK new-car registrations rose 3 percent in January, helped by the first increase in demand from private consumers since March last year. The rise came despite fears a vote to leave the EU in June would hit private car sales.
PSA will begin assembling the Peugeot 3008 and 508 models in Kenya with local partner URYSIA, its long-standing Kenyan importer and distributor. The automaker previously assembled vehicles in the east African country between 1974 and 2002.
VW Group is being sued by German fish distributor Deutsche See for misrepresenting a fleet of vehicles it leased as environmentally friendly, making the company the first major German customer to sue VW over its emissions-cheating scandal.
The latest issue of the Automotive News Europe monthly magazine is ready to view. The new edition looks at whether Russia sales are ready to rebound after a four-year drought during which sales halved.
Jaguar, Honda and Jeep were the biggest winners last year among brands sold in Europe, where overall vehicle sales rose 6.5 percent to 15.
ZF is moving on after a failed attempt to take over brake manufacturer Haldex. The supplier's plans include expansion in electronic-braking technologies and developing new customer groups using ZF's e-platform concept, CEO Stefan Sommer said.
Christian Senger, director of VW Group's electric model line, is predicting a fast model rollout with the launch of the VW I.D. in 2020. Audi, Skoda and Seat will also build models on the new MEB EV platform at an early stage, Senger said.
In its first quarter as an independent company, Adient, the world's largest automotive seating supplier, reported Friday that net income increased 8.7 percent to $149 million.
Key Safety Systems has been selected as the favored buyer for embattled Japanese airbag supplier Takata, the Nikkei Asian Review reported Friday, without citing sources.
Call it Gone in 360 seconds. Thieves in central England stole two trailer loads of new engines from the Jaguar Land Rover plant in Solihull, England, this week.
Petter Witt, who formerly headed all of BMW's U.S. sales operations, is joining Holman Automotive Group. He will oversee Holman's 10 stores in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Toyota and Suzuki are nearing a partnership agreement to develop technology for a variety of functions, including for self-driving vehicles, the Nikkei business daily reported.
Few corporate chieftains seem to have cultivated President Donald Trump quite like Bill Ford. It had been a rough start, with Trump blasting Ford Motor for building cars in Mexico.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said it will run three ads in this year's Super Bowl and spots will run in the second, third and fourth quarters. But FCA wouldn't say which brands or vehicles would be highlighted.
Volkswagen's former Chairman Ferdinand Piech, who left the company following a showdown with ex-CEO Martin Winterkorn in 2015, has testified to prosecutors investigating Winterkorn's involvement in the carmaker's diesel scandal, according to...
BMW is recalling about 230,000 vehicles in the U.S. after discovering that some may have been fitted with defective Takata airbag inflators during repairs, such as after a crash in which the devices deployed.
President Trump ordered a sweeping review of the Dodd-Frank Act rules enacted in response to the 2008-09 financial crisis, a move that could impact the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and auto lending.
Germany's new car market was up 10.5% in January according to data from the German KBA transport authority.
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