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Ford's Europe boss Jim Farley says the new Mustang is back-ordered until spring in Europe. It's an early, positive sign in the company's drive to make the Mustang more popular overseas.

The decline in Volkswagen's group vehicle sales accelerated to 5.4 percent in August, with the automaker citing challenges in tough markets in Latin America, Russia and China.

The known financial toll to GM for hiding a deadly safety defect now exceeds $2.3 billion.

Mercedes-Benz will decide in the next eight to 10 months whether it will bring a pickup to the U.S. market.

Many of today's better-appointed vehicles have side mirrors that tuck away automatically. Major suppliers are working on making those mirrors disappear altogether.

Volkswagen, Daimler and Porsche see an opportunity in the influx of refugees pouring across the country's borders to fix their looming labor shortage.

Mitsubishi Motors has started preparing for the closure of its assembly plant in Illinois after failing to find a buyer for the high-cost auto factory, the Nikkei business daily reported.

While product and job commitments under the UAW's tentative labor contract with Fiat Chrysler are still being finalized, UAW President Dennis Williams said wage and other economic improvements in the deal should result in ratification by the...

In addition to raises and bonuses, the tentative labor agreement between Fiat Chrysler and the UAW includes a number of benefit restorations as well as a guard against a threatened tax hit on UAW member's health care plans.

Gentex is broadening its role from a traditional Michigan-based auto parts maker to a supplier of high-tech vision systems that eventually could be integrated into self-driving cars.

A West Virginia auto dealership group agreed to pay an $80,000 civil penalty to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that charged it with showing misleading advertisements, the FTC said.

Volkswagen and Audi sold about 482,000 diesel vehicles with illegal emissions control software designed to make their cars appear cleaner in testing than they are in the real world, the EPA charged Friday in ordering a recall of the vehicles.

You might have expected a sombre mood at the Frankfurt show with Chinese market growth down to a trickle, the Russian and Brazilian markets still basket cases, uncertainty in Europe over the economic effects of the migrant crisis and dire warnings about a possible recession in the US, but there was not a hint of it. Auto industry executives, and especially those from the German premium brands, were in buoyant mood, insisting that it would be business as usual.

Mercedes-Benz is to spend US$1.3bn to expand Tuscaloosa SUV production in the US, creating 300 new jobs. The company will turn the plant into a high-tech location, manufacturing and supply chain chief Markus Schäfer said.

Daimler AG will invest $1.3 billion at its Alabama plant to boost production of Mercedes-Benz SUVs, creating an additional 300 jobs.

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Volkswagen and Skoda are looking at entering Iran following the country's deal with the West to end sanctions. The move would challenge French rivals in the Middle East's largest car market.

Tesla has built a cult following in the U.S. for its high-powered electric sports cars. But in Europe's biggest car market, consumers are proving harder to convince.

Maserati expects sales to hit a target of 50,000 vehicles next year after it starts production of the Levante SUV.