AutoNation's Mike Maroone will retire after 15 years as president and COO, with chairman and CEO Mike Jackson taking on the additional role of president, effective Feb. 4, 2015.
Two Italian auto suppliers -- OMR Automotive and Sirmax -- today picked Indiana for significant new operations, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence announced.
Metro Detroit, the automotive capital of the world, ironically isn't a hotbed for mobility upstarts, but several efforts are under way in the auto industry to help develop more transportation startups and improve the industry's risk tolerance.
BMW and Lexus will return to the Super Bowl after sitting on the bench for several years. BMW said today that it will pitch the i3 electric in a 60-second spot during the game's first quarter.
A federal judge today refused to let plaintiffs' lawyers suing General Motors access notes from lawyers the company hired to prepare an internal report on the automaker's decade-long mishandling of a deadly ignition-switch flaw.
For the fourth straight year, new-vehicles buyers ranked fuel economy as the most influential factor in selecting a vehicle, JD Power and Associates said in a new report.
Autoliv, the world's largest supplier of automotive airbags, says it has signed contracts with several automakers to deliver up to 25 million inflators to fix potentially defective airbags produced by Takata.
Hoegh Osaka salvers from Svitzer have finally boarded the stranded ship carrying 1,300 vehicles today (15 January) after gale force winds last night forced operations to halt, with a possible tow date back to Southampton Port of the middle of next week.
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16 Jan, 2015
Hot Golf R estate rival, the SEAT Leon ST Cupra, priced at £28,505 - that's £1,300 more than the hatchback
Kia Motors Slovakia broke its European production record in 2014, building over 323,000 cars - a 3% increase over 2013 - at its Zilina factory.
Toyota has already received 1,500 orders for the Mirai, its first hydrogen-powered production car, in its first month on sale in Japan - way ahead of the company's expectation to sell around 400 by the end of the year.
Canadian supplier Linamar will add up to 1,200 jobs at a plant in Guelph, Ontario, developing fuel-efficient transmissions, with 10 percent of the new investment paid by the Canadian government.
Why is Tesla's share price falling? It's a question that many are asking. Does the share price signal that Tesla is a busted flush? Far from it, says Dave Leggett.
VIA Motors, the closely held assembler of plug-in hybrid pickups, expects to sell 50,000 vehicles per year by 2018.
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15 Jan, 2015
Toyota Aygo gets electric canvas soft-top option to match the Citroen C1 and Peugeot 108
Renault has become the latest foreign carmaker to be targeted by China dealers in disputes over who should bear the brunt of a market slowdown. BMW was persuaded earlier this month to pay $824 million in subsidies to its local dealers.
Car sales in Russia look set to plummet by nearly one quarter in 2015 as the economic crisis batters consumer spending, automobile manufacturers said on Thursday.
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15 Jan, 2015
Volkswagen has announced UK prices and specs of its plug-in hybrid Golf GTE, and it's available to order now from £28,035
Renault India plans to price its new hatchback, which is codenamed XBA, at less than INR400,000 (US$6,424).
General Motors spent US$1.8bn to $1.9bn on recalls and compensation in 2014.
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