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While recent automotive lawsuits have featured gruesome photos showing the dangers of faulty airbags or ignition switches, the Volkswagen litigation will largely turn on how much customers should get for being duped into buying high-polluting...

Global carmakers and suppliers in India's flood-hit southern city of Chennai, an area known as India's Detroit, are being forced to keep factory gates closed until Saturday at least, which is likely to hit local sales and exports in coming months.

ThyssenKrupp says it has won orders for steering systems from German, European, Asian and American carmakers in recent months that would add about 4.5 billion euros ($4.76 billion) to its revenue.

News 3 Dec, 2015

A coupe version of the new Volvo S90 saloon could rival the BMW 6 Series when it arrives in 2020

News 3 Dec, 2015

Tuning firm BBR is now offering power upgrades for both 1.5 and 2.0-litre Mazda MX-5 models

News 3 Dec, 2015

Tiny Toyota gains racing additions including mean-looking body kit, but no specs are released

US dealers delivered 1,318,210 new cars and light trucks last month, 1.2% more than in November 2014. For the first 11 months of 2015, sales passed 15.8m, a 5.4% gain.

Jaguar Land Rover is considering a bid to buy the British race track Silverstone to use as its new headquarters, newspapers reported.

"In future, all energy will come as electricity." Those words are not from some environmental activist or soundbite politician, but from a senior figure within the auto industry, which perhaps makes them all the more surprising.

News 3 Dec, 2015

Infiniti president hints performance range is not dead and buried but he’s also in no hurry to launch

Registrations of VW brand cars fell 2 percent in Germany last month in a total market that rose by nearly 9 percent.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is looking to a galaxy far, far away to push its year-end sales events.

The UAW, fresh off its newly ratified labor contracts with the Detroit 3 automakers, said it reached a tentative deal with steering parts supplier Nexteer Automotive.

The Cadillac CT6, the first aluminum-skinned vehicle from General Motors, will have its own dedicated factory-certified repair facilities.

The cap on civil penalties that can be levied by U.S. auto safety regulators would be tripled to $105 million under a five-year highway bill that passed the House today and appears likely to become law.

News 2 Dec, 2015

New Audi A6 allroad Quattro Sport trim level features exterior upgrades and three engine options.

Mercedes-Benz posted a 12 percent decline in U.S. sales for November -- its biggest drop in more than six years -- wrapping up a rare two-day tally of monthly deliveries.

Auto aluminium sheet supplier Hydro said the regional government of Düsseldorf had approved its new rolled products facility in Grevenbroich. Official opening will be in 2017.

Volkswagen Group has reportedly agreed the terms for an EUR20bn "bridging loan" with banks to help cover extraordinary costs arising from its diesel emissions scandal.

Porsche's Italian offices were searched after prosecutors opened a probe against eight managers for alleged fraud in connection with parent Volkswagen Group's admission to cheating in emissions tests, two investigative sources said.