Two thieves made off with a new US$94,000 (GBP59,350) BMW 750i xDrive sedan on Wednesday night after it was left idling outside the Westin Book Cadillac, one of Detroit's major hotels.
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Toyota Motor Sales USA and advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi LA have begun the marketing campaign for the new Prius family of vehicles with a campaign called Prius Goes Plural whcih challenges the public to help decide what you call more than one Prius?
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Shares in Daimler rose on Friday on market speculation that ThyssenKrupp's CFO Alan Hippe, who the steelmaker said will leave the company on March 31, would join the German carmaker. A spokesman for Daimler said there was nothing to the speculation.
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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has announced that sale of the European-specification i-MiEV electric vehicle is to start in 15 European countries - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
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Rocco Carella, one of the longest-serving workers at Mirafiori, Fiat's biggest factory in Turin, Italy, is willing to work as many as 120 extra hours a year and give up some strike rights. He says he has no choice.
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Geneva Motor Show debut for concept version of Subaru’s rear-drive coupe.
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Chrysler staged another high-profile new model dealer driveaway as around 150 Dodge dealers from as far away as Kentucky each drove their first 2011 redesigned Durango SUV home from the MGM Grand hotel in Detroit on Thursday.
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Ford said the redesigned Focus would be launched here in the UK in March in five-door hatchback and wagon forms only. The lesser spotted sedan version available in the previous range has been dropped but will be offered in other markets including the US.
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British car dealer Lookers expects full-year results near the top end of market expectations driven by better trading during the fourth quarter as its car parts business continued to perform strongly.
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Fiat workers continued voting Friday on whether to accept more shifts and fewer benefits at the company's Mirafiori plant, in an employment deal seen as critical to reviving the Italian carmaker's fortunes at home.
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Trelleborg has signed an agreement to divest its operations in brake hoses for light vehicles, which is located in Brazil and is part of the Trelleborg Automotive business area.
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Fiat does not have plans to list Ferrari, Ferrari's CEO said, adding that the luxury sports carmaker will look to keep up its 2010 growth rate this year.
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When automakers like BMW say they hope people find their next car at auto shows like the one in Detroit this week, this wasn't exactly what they meant.
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Chrysler says the new Dodge Viper sports car is going to be 'drop-dead beautiful' and is meant to draw buyers from Porsche and GM's Corvette.
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A jury today cleared former Delphi CEO J.T. Battenberg III of the most serious claims against him stemming from allegations of financial fraud at the auto parts supplier in 2000.
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Renault accused a foreign private company of industrial espionage in an official filing that set the wheels in motion for a judicial investigation.
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A jury today cleared former Delphi CEO J.T. Battenberg III of the most serious claims against him stemming from allegations of financial fraud at the auto parts supplier in 2000.
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Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech ruled out any sale of truckmakers MAN and Scania, rejecting Fiat's interest in acquiring them, according to a German daily on Thursday.
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Audi defended its top spot in luxury-auto sales in Europe last year while BMW 's main brand captured second place from Mercedes-Benz as premium-car demand revived.
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MONT TREMBLANT, Quebec - Thanks to sub-zero temperatures and a lack of insulating snow cover, the road track at Mont Tremblant's Mecaglisse testing facility is an undulating circuit of glistening ice.
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