Aston Martin is cooperating with Chinese technology developer LeEco and could expand their work together. LeEco's founder is also the backer of Faraday Future, the start-up maker of electric cars that intends to build a plant in Nevada.
The parts department at Brighton Ford includes a 150-square-foot convenience store for employees and customers, similar to that found on any city corner. The foot and beverages are a profit center for the parts department, and keep employees on site.
Houston's Mac Haik group wants the industry to copy its successful technician apprenticeship program, and end the poaching that plagues dealerships and drives up costs.
Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne's holdings in the companies he runs are worth $232 million at recent share prices, making him more invested in his employers than fellow auto bosses, according to Bloomberg.
BMW's factory in Spartanburg, S.C., is the brand's biggest plant in the world, and it will become even larger when a $1 billion expansion is completed this year.
Lear CEO Matt Simoncini wants the supplier to be the bellwether of manufacturing success in the city of Detroit.
Volkswagen Group's current chairman, Hans Dieter Poetsch, and CEO, Matthias Mueller, were alerted by the company's former CEO to the use of illicit emissions-control software in the U.S.
Automotive legend Bob Lutz, a BMW board member in the early 1970s, played a significant role in raising BMW's profile. In particular, he is credited with helping create company-owned sales arms in Europe.
Glance over Erwin Raphael's resume and you might wonder why Hyundai chose him to run its fledgling Genesis luxury-car brand in the U.S. When you have a problem, however, it becomes clear.
Daimler boss Dieter Zetsche says electric vehicles probably need to be able to go at least 310 miles without a recharge in order to become a mainstream alternative to gas-powered cars.
As BMW celebrates its 100-year anniversary today, it finds itself entering a new disruptive digital age commonly called the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
VW brand chief Herbert Diess said it will take months rather than weeks to reach an agreement with U.S. regulators on an emissions fix for 600,000 diesel cars, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Infiniti isn't ready to take on established lines such as BMW's M or Mercedes-Benz's AMG, but executives say the Red Sport 400 series will get the ball rolling.
Toyota is radically rethinking its fabled manufacturing system for the new car plant it plans to open in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2019, a top corporate official says.
Part of Ford of Europe's rebound to profitability has come from restricting dealers from self-registering cars, commonly known as 'punching' cars in the United States.
Audi is giving electric superchargers their first production application with the 435-hp SQ7 SUV as the automaker leads the race to increase diesel-engine power.
Jaguar Land Rover had a record month for worldwide sales in January. Now comes news that February was even better, with a year on year gain of 31%. Leading the success was the Discovery Sport, the 100,000th example of which has just been delivered, 500 days after production of this SUV commenced.
Federal safety regulators are investigating 33 complaints of brake failure on previous-generation Ford F-150 pickups.
A Texas jury ordered Volkswagen's Audi unit to pay $124.5 million to an 11-year-old boy who was left brain damaged in a 2012 rear-end collision.
Opinion
6 Mar, 2016
Mike Rutherford's been looking into manufacturer's research budgets... and it's clear to him who's spending the money well
With the current economy the last thing you need is for your vehicle to break down. Whether your driving a reliable car or a busted up