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GM's lending unit said the Department of Justice subpoenaed documents related to its subprime lending practices.

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South Africa's employer body (NEASA) currently urging its 3,000 members to lock out anything up to 80,000 workers formerly on strike in the country's vast metalworking walkout, is also urging the minimum wage be cut to stimulate job creation.

New York has held a motor show every year since 1900. Today, the show is held at the Jacob Javits Center, and is the best-attended show in North America, thanks to its convenient location. This year's event ran from 18-27 April, but new-car debuts were noticeably down as carmakers chose Beijing, which ran at the same time, to show new models.

As carmakers increasingly look to China to boost sales volumes, so the Beijing show, or Auto China as it's officially known, continues to expand. This year's event took place from 20-29 April, and was the 12th time the show has been held.

This year's Geneva Motor Show took place in the Palexpo Exhibition Center. The event ran from 6-16 March and marked the 84th time that the event has been held.

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Daimler will raise its stake in Aston Martin to 5% and supply the U.K. sports-car producer with electric and electronic parts to deepen an alliance that started last year.

Daimler will raise its stake in Aston Martin and supply the sports-car producer with electric and electronic parts to deepen an alliance that started last year.

U.S. safety regulators have upgraded the investigation of an estimated 335,195 Honda Accord sedans a step closer to a recall after receiving almost 300 complaints that airbags can deploy when the car door is shut with too much force.

After posting a 3.9% year on year unit volume fall in the US in July, Honda Motor sales in China plunged 22.7% the same month, reportedly the automaker's biggest decline there in 17 months.

Novelis, the world's largest sheet aluminum producer, expects to double its North American production of automotive aluminum by 2018 or so from 2014 levels.

Alarmed by what it calls higher than normal incidents of injures and safety lapses, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched an inspection of auto parts plants across Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.

3M India's directors Ippocratis Vrohidis and Ashish Khandpur have stepped down, with effect from 1 August, Equity Bulls said. Biren Gabhawala has been appointed as an additional independent director, effective 5 August.

Mazda Motor plans to discontinue its passenger vehicle production partnership with Ford in Thailand, a Japanese newspaper said.

Would any self-respecting BMW enthusiast be caught dead hauling cargo around town in an open-bed 3-Series?

Pininfarina's sales and service revenue for the first half of 2014 was up 27.61% to EUR21.24m (US$28.52m) compared with EUR16.64m in first half of 2013.

Motherson Sumi Systems (MSSL) has successfully closed the deal acquiring the wiring harness business of Stoneridge in record time after receipt of necessary regulatory approvals.

New car sales in Italy rose 5 percent in July compared to the same month a year ago to 113,777 vehicles

Results of a new study show the major automakers as well as most manufacturing companies, could significantly increase profits by improving supplier relations.