A senior Autoliv executive said today the Swedish airbag supplier is preparing to expand annual inflator production capacity by millions of units to meet demand for replacements.
Strong used-vehicle demand and a sharp decline in retired rental vehicles offered at auction buoyed prices of used cars and trucks in November.
Former Ford and Honda designer Paul Snyder will become the Transportation Design Department chair at Detroit's College for Creative Studies, starting in January, the college said today.
It's not often that a vehicle is killed off just days after just-auto drives it. The lack of a diesel engine did for the Hyundai Veloster in Britain but the car is, however, still very much alive elsewhere.
Volkswagen AG bought a stake in battery startup QuantumScape with the aim of developing technology that can more than triple the range of its electric cars, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
Volkswagen AG bought a stake in battery startup QuantumScape with the aim of developing technology that can more than triple the range of its electric cars, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
Volkswagen bought a stake in battery startup QuantumScape with the aim of developing technology that can more than triple the range of its electric cars, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
VW Group bought a stake in battery startup QuantumScape with the aim of developing technology that can more than triple the range of its electric cars, sources said. VW could use the energy-storage technology for its VW, Audi and Porsche brands.
GM is replacing ignition keys on its newest trucks because of a design problem that can cause the shift lever to bump the key and shut off the engine.
Fast-growing Subaru of America plans to expand its US headquarters by moving to a campus double the size of the current site.
Peter Grady will retire as head of Chrysler Group's dealer network on March 31, and will step down as head of Maserati North America at the first of the year.
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Ford today said it has sold more than 1 million vehicles in China for the first time in a calendar year. And it did so with a month left to go.
Ford insists "no viable" business plan has yet been submitted to it that could continue limited operations at its Genk plant in Belgium slated for closure in less than two weeks.
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and AllurGroup will build Peugeot 301 cars in Kazakhstan. Local production will help PSA to improve long-term profitability in Kazakhstan and the entire CIS region of former Soviet states, PSA, said.
PSA and AllurGroup have signed an agreement to start complete knockdown production of the Peugeot 301 in Kazakhstan. The Kazakh auto market is expected to reach 200,000 units next year, more than tripling from 45,000 units in 2011.
There have been rumours that a new coupe would revive the SC name but now comes news that TMC has registered the LC 500 and LC 500h model names.
Back from two weeks' 'staycation', the words that stood out as I returned to the news desk last Monday were 'Takata' and 'Honda'. And, as the latest developments in this long-running saga occurred throughout the week, I started to think of two more words: 'Ford' and 'Firestone'. Remember all that back at the beginning of this decade? If not, this 2005 story from our archives neatly summarises it.
Honda has said about 3m more vehicles will need to be recalled and repaired in the US after it widened a 'hot and humid' regional campaign to the entire country.
Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea jumped 22.4% to 16,959 in November, from 13,853 units in the same month of last year, according to the Korea Automobile Importers Distributors Association (KAIDA).
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