Industry

The worsening exchange rate differential between the strengthening euro and weakening U.S. dollar means importing European manufactured models to North America is now significantly more expensive than just a few years ago. It’s a problem Alfa Romeo has to juggle with as it attempts to...

With recent news of workers crossing the picket line and the American Axle strike being called off, General Motors has taken stock of the strike action's effect on its business. In total, the strike cost the carmaker almost $2.82 billion but other costs have yet to rear their heads - such as lost...

The role of the German state of Lower Saxony in Porsche's ongoing attempt to takeover Volkswagen has been well publicized. The fight between the EU and Germany over the exact nature of the law that enables Lower Saxony to block strategic decisions with a minority share has been on the back burner...

The costly strike action by one of GM’s key suppliers, American Axle, is close to ending as workers vote today on a new contract that’s expected to slash union wages. Earlier today the last strike at a GM plant ended with news UAW Local 31 staff at the Kansas Chevrolet Malibu plant are...

Updated: Workers from UAW Local 31 will resume manufacturing the Chevrolet Malibu after voting in favor of a new deal with GM, ending a 17 day strike that threatened supply of one of the carmaker’s most important models. Malibu sales in the U.S. are up more than 30% this year despite...

Revealed today at the Eden Project Green Car Show in the UK, the newly-formed company Liberty Electric Cars Ltd. plans to invest £30 million ($58.4 million) in the re-engineering of luxury cars and SUVs to turn them into emissions free yet still high-performance electric vehicles (EVs). The...

While Fiat has long ignored the U.S. market, the Italian manufacturer is mulling over a return to the world’s biggest market. The carmaker’s CEO Sergio Marchionne has revealed that distribution, rather than manufacturing, is Fiat's current greatest hurdle to entering the market, but has...

Although UAW members still have to give their final approval to the strike settlement deal, GM's offer to end the American Axle strike is expected to pass through smoothly. Once it does, GM will be able to set about getting production back up to full speed. The company has already lost 272,203...

As GM moves to boost production to recover what was lost to the American Axle strike, Ford is cutting back its output of pickups and SUVs in the face of rising fuel prices in the U.S. Sales of the spacious and functional yet very thirsty vehicles have dropped sharply and consumers and businesses...

As it looks for new ways to grow its business, expanding into new markets and moving existing models to markets it already inhabits, Mercedes-Benz is including Eastern Europe in its plans. The latest reports have the company eying production in the western Romanian county of Timis. Production at...

Sales of Toyota’s heavy SUV and pickups have been on the decline in the U.S. for the past several months with rising fuel prices and growing environmental concerns shifting consumer demand towards smaller and more economical vehicles. The carmaker, which usually prides itself on productivity...

Volvo’s sales slump of the past several months has led to a pretax loss of $151 million for the first quarter of the year, and with no sign of turnaround in sight parent company Ford plans to cut production in the hope that it will reduce costs. Latest reports claim Ford is hoping to improve...

Driving in a fuel-efficient manner is often a matter of common sense, but it's still not a common practice. To increase awareness of things motorists can do to improve their car's fuel efficiency a coalition of auto manufacturers and private businesses are launching a campaign centered around a...

We've been covering Nissan's plans for an all-electric car since 2007, but until now there has been little tangible progress, at least in the public eye, aside from the concept debuted at this year's New York Auto Show. A joint venture with NEC to mass produce advanced lithium-ion batteries and the...

Already Ford has announced its plans to bring the global Fiesta small hatch to the U.S., and the Focus is now also slated to join its littler sibling. Alongside those two, due in 2010 and 2011 respectively, will come the Kuga and C-Max, Ford's global crossover SUV and MPV - the third and fourth of...

Earlier this month Toyota announced it would be raising prices across its U.S. line-up, and now it seems Honda may be following suit. The cause is a confluence of factors, with a weak U.S. dollar, high raw materials costs and the global downturn in sales conspiring to make the price rises...

As sales of heavy SUVs and pickups continue to dwindle and at the same time pull down the market share of the Detroit 3, product planners are now contemplating the final demise of truck-based designs and doing as much as they can to pick up the pieces. We saw earlier today that Ford is planning to...

The ongoing readjustment period in the U.S. auto industry has thus far been a tough one for both the companies and their current and former employees. Workers at American Axle & Manufacturing, now in their 12th week on strike, are being urged by both GM and their own union representatives to accept...

Production will finally resume at General Motors’ Delta Township assembly plant near Lansing in Michigan after workers first went on strike on April 17. The plant is responsible for the Buick Enclave (pictured), GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook crossovers and employs about 3,300 union workers...

Sales of the attractive and modern XF sedan along with new confidence in the brand's future are the driving forces behind Jaguar's first sales rise since July 2006 as Jaguar and sister company Land Rover change hands to new owner Tata Motors. The company sees a strong year of continued sales on the...