The United Auto Workers is still talking with Ford to ensure the automaker remains competitive with domestic rivals reorganised with federal funding, a union official was quoted as saying.
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The United Auto Workers is still talking with Ford to ensure the automaker remains competitive with domestic rivals reorganised with federal funding, a union official was quoted as saying.
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Fiat SpA is to instigate temporary lay-offs at its Termini Imerese plant in Sicily, a media report said.
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General Motors plans to complete a one fifth cut in its white collar work force by October, a spokesman has said.
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It has taken 33 years, but Hyundai Motor Company has said that it has loaded and sent off its one millionth vehicle bound for Africa.
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Porsche is advancing toward a deal with Qatar to give the Gulf state a shareholding in Volkswagen, a compromise that will clear the way for the car makers to merge, according to people involved in the talks.
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Porsche is advancing toward a deal with Qatar to give the Gulf state a shareholding in Volkswagen, a compromise that will clear the way for the car makers to merge, according to people involved in the talks.
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Ford has again raised its UK new vehicle prices, citing the "sustained weakness of [the pound] sterling against the euro. The hike, averaging 4%, applies to all orders received after 30 June. The automaker last raised prices as recently as 31 March.
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Denso has appointed Yoshiki Sekiguchi as its president and CEO of Denso International America, the supplier's North American headquarters, effective immediately.
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Mitsubishi Motors is reported to be planning to run one its Japanese plants for more days in July than was initially planned due to better than forecast sales.
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Amid its demand to Detroit to promote fuel-efficient vehicles, the U.S. government is spending $287 million to purchase more than 17,000 cars and trucks from Detroit's three automakers -- among them two types of pickups and a minivan.
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Toyota and EDF Energy have been awarded UK government funding to support a trial of up to 20 plug in hybrid vehicles (PHVs).
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After four years of development, countless scoop photos and a grandiose unveiling atop a skyscraper in China, we finally have the key to the 2010 Porsche Panamera in hand.
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Toyota Motor Corp. small-car subsidiary Daihatsu passed BMW and Audi on its way to top honors in customer satisfaction among German car owners, according to a J.D. Power and Associates study published Wednesday.
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Toyota Motor Corp. small-car subsidiary Daihatsu passed BMW and Audi on its way to top honors in customer satisfaction among German car owners, according to a J.D. Power and Associates study published Wednesday.
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Ford, Nissan Motor and US electric vehicle start-up Tesla Motors have been granted low-cost US government loans to develop and build all-electric cars.
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Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, may halve its work week to 20 hours from next September until February, significantly reducing the wages of its employees, a company representative told business daily Vedomosti, citing AvtoVAZ president Boris Alyoshin.
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This looks like a week in which electric cars are going to be very much in the news - in part due to government initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic. And there are plenty of announcements being made by the OEMs to coincide with that. Nissan's yesterday about manufacturing electric plug-in vehicles - not hybrids - in the US is particularly intriguing.
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GAZ Group plans to lay off around 7,000 employees at its Nizhny Novgorod region factory in July-August, Gennady Suvorov, the region's deputy governor for social policy, told Prime-Tass.
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Renault plans to spend 500m pesos (US$128m) between 2009 and 2011 to modernise its Argentine plant and launch production of a new vehicle, the company said.
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