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Volkswagen's chief executive and German auto industry association VDA have expressed concerns the election of Donald Trump as United States president could have negative impacts for their companies, a media report said.

The names might seem comical to those outside Japan, but the new Tank and Roomy people carriers have been developed to keep Toyota at the top of a Japanese market where consumer tastes are changing.

The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president puts new pressure on automakers and other manufacturers that have become dependent on open trade with Mexico, and raises the risk they will face higher costs.

European politicians have requested urgent face-to-face talks with US President-Elect, Donald Trump to discuss the future of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), following his remarks he would extinguish the deal should he secure the keys to the White House.

Production of the Toyota C-HR crossover has been officially launched at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey (TMMT) in Sakarya as the automaker promised increased exports outside Europe.

Car dealership Lookers posted an 11 percent increase in gross profit from new cars in the first nine months of the year and said UK customers have not significantly changed their buying habits since the Brexit vote.

The Western political establishment has had another rude shock after the summer's Brexit referendum vote in the UK. The US has voted Donald Trump as president-elect, confounding the opinion polls that had pointed to a narrow win for Hillary Clinton. The question on many minds today is an obvious one: What could this mean?

VW Group CEO Matthias Mueller and Germany's VDA auto industry association expressed concerns that the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President could have a negative effect on automakers.

New vehicle sales in Vietnam increased by 27.3% to 24,439 units in October, from 19,256 units a year earlier, according to data released by the Vietnam Automotive Manufacturers Association (VAMA).

Toyota launched production of its C-HR small SUV in Turkey today and said the model would be exported to all global markets including North America.

Research by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents shows that driver fatigue may be a contributory factor in up to 20 percent of road accidents. While driver alert systems - aimed at identifying signs of driver fatigue - have been around for a while, eye tracking and camera-based facial recognition technology are under development. This research snapshot reviews the stage reached with driver alertness technologies and what we can expect to see on tomorrow's cars.

In the eighteen years since he joined Toyota, Didier Leroy has become one of the automaker's most powerful executives.

Donald Trump's come-from-behind victory over Hillary Clinton signals that the state of the U.S. auto industry was clearly on the mind of the American voter.

Donald Trump was elected president because he was able to harness the bitterness among working-class voters that had propelled his campaign all along.

Donald Trump was elected president because he was able to harness the bitterness among working-class voters that had propelled his campaign all along.

Japanese auto parts maker Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha will plead guilty and pay a $7.2 million fine for fixing the prices of steel tubes sold to carmakers, the Justice Department said.

Volvo is recalling about 74,000 U.S. vehicles for an issue that might cause a seat belt to inadequately restrain passengers in a crash.

The display stands packed with glimmering sheet metal were smaller than usual and all-new models were scarce. Even most forecasts for a recovery in sales were modest, in keeping with the mood as the Sao Paulo auto show opened today.

As Toyota markets its new Prius Prime plug-in hybrid the automaker is going after a very specific consumer: tech-savvy, knowledge-hungry drivers ages 18-49 with household incomes of $75,000 or more and who tend to be environmentally conscious but...

Japan's two largest carmakers have arrived at the same conclusion: the U.S. auto market that's functioned as a growth engine has run out of gas.