Electric vehicle (EV) sales in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), a region with a population of over 100m people, are forecast by research firm Frost & Sullivan (F&S) to exceed 60,000 pa by 2017.
BMW will build a new line of I3 petrol engines for the i8 plug-in hybrid sports car at its English engine plant at Hams Hall, near Birmingham.
It's hard to fathom, but it's been more than a decade since the peak of the sport-compact craze saw modified Honda Civics cluttering the streets.
Nick Pascoe, chief executive officer of Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), a UK-based engineering company, has spoken of the difficulties faced in recruiting professional engineers in the UK.
Maruti Suzuki India's board (MSIL) on Tuesday (12 June) approved a proposal to merge with Suzuki Powertrain India (SPIL).
Renault Samsung is to idle its plant in Busan for five days to reduce inventory as it battles slow sales.
Volkswagen plans to nearly double its production in China over the next few years, according to the new head of its operations in the country.
Aisin Seiki, the world's fourth largest auto parts producer, is to increase its investment in China as it seeks to raise the proportion of its sales there from 5% to 10%.
Buick is adding a turbo variant this fall as the premium model for the Verano lineup.
Sales by the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand in the first five months of 2012 rose 9.4% year on year to 2.29m units. There was a now-familiar pattern - stagnation in western Europe and good growth in eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and North America.
VW brand sold 9 percent more passenger cars in May than a year earlier as demand in China and the United States offset a weak economy in Europe.
Daimler started sales and production of its first mass-market electric car today, beating rival BMW with the introduction of an emission-free model. Deliveries of the battery-powered ForTwo will start later this year.
Daimler started sales and production of its first mass-market electric car today, beating rival BMW with the introduction of an emission-free model. Deliveries of the battery-powered ForTwo will start later this year.
BMW, Mercedes and other luxury brands are boosting efforts to court bloggers to target a growing audience of would-be buyers who can't be reached through TV and newspaper ads.
The new Audi A6 offers an optional front lighting system from Hella KGaA Hueck and Co. featuring 64 LEDs. The system has been praised because it produces a light that is noticeably closer to actual daylight than other systems.
Audi of America has big plans for the next-generation A3: It wants to make the compact car the brand's second-best-selling model behind the popular A4 sedan.
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