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About 7,000 UAW members at a Missouri plant that builds the highly profitable Ford F-150 could go on strike as soon as Sunday because Ford has refused to negotiate terms of a local contract 'in good faith,' union leaders say.

New auto safety technologies such as automatic braking and sensors that keep a car in its lane could prevent almost 10,000 U.S. road deaths a year and save $251 billion if they were more widely available, according to a Boston Consulting Group study.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and president of its parent company Alphabet Inc., expects the technology giant to team up with 'top-tier OEMs' when it ultimately brings its self-driving cars to market.

Audi of America has sold about 14,300 A3 compact cars powered by 2.0-liter turbodiesel engines with software implicated in Volkswagen AG's emissions scandal.

U.S. lawmakers are demanding documents and a briefing from Volkswagen AG and the EPA as part of an investigation into the automaker's admission that it cheated on emissions tests.

Prabhakar Patil will retire as CEO of LG Chem Power, effective Wednesday, the battery maker said today. He will be succeeded by Denise Gray, who helped develop the Chevrolet Volt's lithium ion battery system, starting Thursday.

The daughter of Paul Walker, Meadow Walker, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against defendants Porsche Cars of North America and Beverly Hills Porsche, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The VW emissions scandal has proven to be maddening for consumers and dealers and potentially catastrophic to the company's bottom line. But it's also been great fodder for late night comedians.

Volkswagen AG's stock will be removed from the Dow Jones Sustainability indexes after the automaker cheated on emissions tests.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has found 'significant' under-reporting of deaths and injuries possibly linked to safety defects in its vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said today.

For auto parts makers in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, the fine print of a Pacific trade deal negotiators aim to wrap up this week could make or break an export industry boom built up over the last 20 years that is now worth $60 billion.

Although results are not yet discernible, Brazilian auto makers and their supporting components industry reckon the real's escalating against the US dollar will see a gradual recovery of export sales. It's been a while since Brazilian cars and parts were competitively priced in other markets and recovery is likely to be slow, not least due to a lack of new free-trade agreements (FTAs). Brazil has just signed its first with north western neighbour Colombia and another with Uruguay, on the southern border.

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Japan's transport ministry reportedly told four automakers that sell diesel vehicles in the domestic market - Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and Mitsubishi - along with importers of European brands to report by Friday on whether their vehicles are fitted with the software that can 'game' pollution tests.

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The supervisory board of Volkswagen's Porsche business may name the sports-car maker's production chief Oliver Blume as the division's new CEO this week, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.

Brembo has agreed to buy a 66 percent stake in Chinese brakes manufacturer ASIMCO Meilian Braking Systems for 616 million yuan ($97 million) as it follows car-making customers into areas with high growth potential.

America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says it has written to vehicle manufacturers notifying them it will add to its confirmatory testing, additional evaluations designed to look for potential defeat devices.