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Dec
27th

Premium brands on track to win battle for midsize segment

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Sales of luxury midsize cars in Europe are on track to top sales of mass-market rivals this year for the first time as buyers looking to move upscale increasingly choose Mercedes, Audi or BMW cars over mass-market brands.
Dec
27th

Why a tariff on Mexican auto imports could backfire

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Many, if not most, economists agree that the benefits of tariffs, no matter how well-intentioned, are temporary, if not illusory.
Dec
26th

Blindsided by SUV boom, Hyundai Motor trims costs, perks

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Headed for a fourth straight annual profit decline, Hyundai Motor is trimming its cost fat.
Dec
26th

Blindsided by SUV boom, Hyundai trims costs, perks

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Headed for a fourth straight annual profit decline, Hyundai Motor is trimming its cost fat.
Dec
26th

Female designers want more done to lure next wave of women stylists

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Women such as Martina Starke at BMW and Agneta Dahlgren at Renault are shaping the designs of today's vehicles, but they are the exception. The field remains male dominated, they say.
Dec
26th

Tesla: Superchargers aren’t parking lots

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Tesla Motors is following up on its promise to make drivers pay if they leave vehicles at a Supercharger station long after they are fully charged.
Dec
26th

FCA’s Pacifica becomes minivan of the future

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A key piece of Fiat Chrysler's fuel economy regulatory strategy in the United States, and a place to showcase the automaker's leading-edge technology, is surprisingly large and built in Canada.
Dec
26th

How Cummins is tackling health-care costs

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Diesel-maker Cummins Inc. is trying a new approach to tackle one of the business world's knottiest problems - the skyrocketing cost of U.S. health care.
Dec
26th

Honda basks in glow from its Clarity Fuel Cell

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Honda's third-generation hydrogen-powered car will likely earn the brand kudos and attention for being bigger and more capable than the competing Toyota Mirai. But Honda's bigger challenge lies outside its fuel-cell comfort zone.
Dec
26th

‘Held hostage’: Dealer’s battle with software giants escalates

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Tennessee dealer Mitch Walters has taken his gripes with the data security policies of major software providers CDK Global and Reynolds and Reynolds directly to the National Automobile Dealers Association.
Dec
26th

Glass-canopy roof, 1,000 hp, and refundable deposit money

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For shoppers worried that the Lucid Air will be more like elusive vaporware, the electric-car startup Lucid Motors is offering a no-risk purchase plan: fully refundable deposits.
Dec
26th

VW closer to resolution on 3.0-liter diesel claims

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Volkswagen AG took more big steps to atone for its emissions cheating scandal last week, reaching separate agreements to resolve regulators' claims related to noncompliant 3.
Dec
26th

V2V finally on its way, but is it too late?

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The promise of vehicle-to-vehicle communications is clouded by concerns that technological development soon will shift away from radio-based technology and toward 5G cellular networks.
Dec
26th

Sales races to watch in the final stretch

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Yes, 2016 will go down as another big year for the U.S. auto industry. The question is whether it will go down as another record year.
Dec
26th

Day of reckoning for auto production

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Automakers are on pace to build more new cars and light trucks in North America this year than ever before, but efforts to reduce bloated inventories could lead to North America's first production decline since the Great Recession in 2017.
Dec
26th

Agreements reached in dispute on open recalls

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In the ongoing dispute over how dealerships can advertise and sell used vehicles which have open recalls, particularly certified used vehicles, the FTC closed consent agreements with General Motors and two large dealership groups.
Dec
26th

BEST PRACTICES: Dealership’s multilingual staff caters to hearing-impaired

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Michigan dealer John Fox has identified employees who can converse in more than a dozen languages, including American Sign Language, to translate vehicle and other purchases for consumers who speak little or no English or are hearing impaired.
Dec
26th

Mobileye’s Gat sees self-driving as a moonshot

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Mobileye's Itay Gat says developing self-driving cars is the automotive equivalent of putting a man on the moon. Be he expects fully autonomous vehicles to be a reality within five years.
Dec
26th

FCA bedeviled again by shifters

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For the second time in less than 18 months, federal safety regulators are investigating why drivers of some Fiat Chrysler vehicles are having problems getting their cars to get into or stay in park.
Dec
25th

Hyundai’s next CEO won’t have it easy

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Since 1998, only two CEOs of Hyundai Motor America have lasted more than three years in the post. Dave Zuchowski's successor will need to be an especially skilled executive to surpass that record.
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