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A planned initial public offering of luxury sports car maker Ferrari will not happen before Oct. 12, its owner Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said, adding the delay was due to tax issues.

Toyota may boost exports from Japan for the first time in three years to meet its global sales target because it is facing capacity restraints in North America.

Automakers and suppliers can expect tougher data requests and more frequent audits from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency said today as it outlined a plan to prevent safety lapses similar to General Motors' ignition...

A troubled air bag maker has named its top quality executive to its board to give him more authority.

Opinion 5 Jun, 2015

On a recent trip, Mike Rutherford visited a Miami auto mall to find a 20-year warranty on offer. Could it be coming to the UK?

As he presses rivals to merge with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Sergio Marchionne faces a fact his counterparts at General Motors and Ford know all too well: auto mergers and alliances fail at least as often as they succeed.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating allegations that Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris misused company funds for personal benefit, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

News 5 Jun, 2015

Thanks to budget cuts, police in Devon and Cornwall will no longer look into drivers leaving forecourts without paying

News 5 Jun, 2015

McLaren is offering financial services for the first time, with a payment plan available for all of its models

For all the chatter surrounding the brave new world of autonomous driving, there is one supplier at least which is broadening the debate beyond the physics and the chemistry.

As many as 10,000 vehicles may have been damaged in last month's catastrophic Texas floods, and some could be resold out of state to unsuspecting buyers, according to a group that works to prevent insurance fraud.

News 5 Jun, 2015

A new survey has shown that 54 per cent of people in the UK don't bother to walk short distances

News 5 Jun, 2015

We speak to TVR boss on possibility of 4-cylinder engines, new four-model range and why they have to be British-built

Features 6 Jun, 2015

Liquefied petroleum gas has fallen from favour, but at 63p per litre, it sounds tempting. We tried the forgotten fuel out on our commute

Big News this week was the incredible confirmation - from NHTSA - of a 5.1m recall of Honda/Acura cars with airbags with Takata inflators. It had been flagged up earlier by the automaker but then came the report that neither supplier or US regulator are quite sure of the safety of up to 3m replacement parts.

Geely Automobile said May sales in China rose 25% year on year to 38,395 units though exports plunged 34% to 4,164 cars.

Navistar's sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 were down 1.93% to US$2.69bn compared with $2.74bn in the same period a year ago. Loss from continuing operations narrowed to $64m compared to $298m. Net loss was $64m versus $297m.

Johnson Matthey's revenue for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2015 was down 9.82% year on year to GBP10.05bn compared with GBP11.15bn in the same period a year ago.

Ford and its Chinese joint ventures sold 91,013 vehicles in China in May, up 4 percent from a year earlier, the company said today.