General Motors said Wednesday that CEO Mary Barra will sit out an award ceremony in her honor next week following protests from a group of family and friends of people killed in defective GM vehicles.
Takata said it tested airbags in 2004 for an issue separate from the flaw at the center of an auto-safety crisis, disputing a report by the New York Times last week.
Axalta Coating Systems, the former DuPont auto-paint unit now backed by Carlyle Group LP, rose in its first day of trading after raising $975 million in an initial public stock offering.
Mercedes-Benz is using the tag line 'Handcrafted by Racers: a sports car in its purest form,' for the new GT sports car, emphasizing the car's development by Mercedes' AMG performance unit.
Customers of 30 AutoNation stores in south Florida next month will be able to use their credit cards to reserve a car they want to buy, as part of a purchase process that is largely online.
Takata has modified the composition of an airbag propellant that contains a volatile chemical at the center of a recall of millions of cars worldwide, the company told Reuters.
The lawyer handling General Motors' compensation for victims of accidents tied to its faulty ignition switches said he'll consider an auto safety advocate's suggestion that he comb regulators' files for relevant accidents.
Moscow analysts are predicting a return to automotive sales growth in 2016 - but only after another tough 12 months next year.
Features
19 Nov, 2014
MINI and Cooper have been linked since the 60s and the John Cooper Works badge is still reserved for the ultimate versions
News
12 Nov, 2014
The 2015 Audi Q7 has been spied again; this time with much less camouflage than before, showing Audi's new design language
Features
19 Nov, 2014
The MINI and Cooper names have been linked since the 60s and the John Cooper Works badge is still reserved for the ultimate versions
General Motors is laying off 510 workers at two Michigan auto plants. according to reports.
News
12 Nov, 2014
Head of Jaguar Land Rover special operations division hints at extreme off-road derivatives to go with high-performance and luxury spin-offs
Two former Honda Motor chiefs have called on CEO Takanobu Ito this year, urging him to focus more on quality issues, increasing the pressure he's already under from federal regulators and politicians over mass airbag recalls.
A new policy at Volkswagen's assembly plant in Chattanooga would let organized labor groups hold regular meetings at the plant and engage with plant executives but stops short of extending collective bargaining rights to any particular labor union.
Russian car sales fell 10 percent last month, slowing from 20 percent drop a month earlier as the weak ruble and government subsidies helped slow falling sales in a slumping economy dragged lower by Western sanctions over Ukraine.
Russian car sales fell 10 percent last month, slowing from a 20 percent drop a month earlier, as the weak ruble and a government subsidy started to provide benefits.
News
12 Nov, 2014
Prices and specs have been released for the 2015 Hyundai i20, and the supermini will cost more than rivals from Vauxhall and Skoda
Opinion
12 Nov, 2014
The opening of Hyundai's Rockar showroom could signal a shift in the way we buy cars to a new online model
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