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As director of the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Margo Oge helped lead the charge to implement federal regulations designed to slash vehicle emissions and double fuel economy to a 54.5 mpg average by the 2025 model year.

Mercedes-Benz USA is on track to sell 400,000 vehicles in the next few years and needs 25 percent more service capacity at its dealerships, said CEO Steve Cannon.

After preparing for a future built on small cars, Ford is now straining to keep up with demand for SUVs and crossovers.

The head of the German state of Lower Saxony, which owns 20 percent of Volkswagen, said a power struggle at the automaker that led to the resignation of VW patriarch Ferdinand Piech is over.

PSA's new electric cars will be cheaper and have a longer range than the automaker's current EVs, CEO Carlos Tavares said. The automaker also is close to completing development of its first plug-in hybrid, he said.

Seat is mulling a family of SUVs as it seeks to boost volume and become sustainably profitable. The brand's first SUV, a compact, will go on sale next year.

Volkswagen's works council has backed the automaker's choice of two new supervisory board members, appointments reportedly opposed by newly departed Chairman Ferdinand Piech.

Features 3 May, 2015

RM Sotheby’s Villa Erba car auction, held alongside Villa d’Este 2015 car show, is set to put other classic car sales in the shade

Features 20 May, 2015

The theory test is one of the first hurdles to jump before getting your full driving licence – here’s all you need to know about it

The French government's move to tighten its hold on Renault, crowned by a rare defeat for CEO Carlos Ghosn, has exposed competing visions for the carmaker and its alliance with Nissan.

UK sports car maker Lotus will be profitable again by 2017 after years of losing money, CEO Jean-Marc Gales said. The company has moved to cut costs and improve its lineup and plans a relaunch in the U.S. market.

The latest issue of the Automotive News Europe monthly e-magazine goes live on Monday, May 4. This month's edition looks at what European automakers plan to do to keep winning in China despite the normalization of the market's growth.

German supplier Preh teamed up with Audi to equip the TT with heating and air conditioning controls that have been fully integrated into the car's dashboard-mounted air vents.

All good dictatorships come to an end and so it is with that of Ferdinand Piech, the patriarch who has ruled the Volkswagen Group since 1993, taking it from near-bankruptcy to challenging Toyota as the world's biggest automaker.

German supplier Brose Group expects its annual sales in China will grow by 50 percent by 2020, as the company undergoes a period of expansion in the country.

Former VW Group Chairman Ferdinand Piech is challenging the company's choice of two of his nieces to replace him and his wife as board members, a German newspaper said.

News 5 May, 2015

Bentley is already considering adding a second, smaller SUV below the Bentayga as its fifth model line, says CEO

Alternating with the Beijing show, the Shanghai event is now one of the most-significant shows of the year. For 2015, the event moved to Shanghai's New Convention Center, the largest of its type in the world.

The New York Auto Show experiences the most public visitors of any in the US, thanks in part to the convenient location of the Jacob Javits Center that hosts the event. After a relatively flat 2014 show, the 2015 event was back on form with a number of significant debuts.

Sponsored 13 May, 2015

The ruggedness of the SEAT Leon X-PERIENCE is more than skin deep, as a spot of off-road geo-caching proves.