Automakers and their suppliers must use the breathing space they have been given by bankruptcy and government programs to innovate and to create vehicles consumers want, said Corinne Ball, who led a team of attorneys representing Chrysler during its Chapter 11 reorganization.
Ford Motor Co (F.N) has room for steady growth in its share of the North American and European auto markets, Chief Executive Alan Mulally said on Wednesday.
Talks between Canadian automotive group Magna (MGa.TO), General Motors and workers at German carmaker Opel were adjourned with no result on Thursday and will resume soon, a spokesman for Opel said.
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and Ford Motor Co (F.N) are likely to outsell General Motors Co [GM.UL] in the U.S. market by 2015 -- when industry sales will finally return to levels last seen in 2000, according to an industry forecasting firm.
Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Thursday its U.S. auto sales fell 5 percent in September from a year earlier as demand slumped off in part due to the end of the U.S. government's cash for clunkers incentive program.
Fiat SpA (FIA.MI) will rush the first all-new Chrysler model to the U.S. market by the end of 2011 and create a new Ram brand for its truck line under a revival plan for Chrysler that will be shown to the U.S. government this week, people involved in the discussions said.
Volkswagen's (VOWG.DE) Czech unit, Skoda Auto, is considering halting production for two days in October after demand fell following the end of a scrappage subsidy in Germany, a spokesman said on Thursday.
Government funds propped up an ailing European auto industry in September, in contrast to an expected slump in sales in the United States after its cash for clunkers scheme ran out of money.
Executives from Chrysler Group LLC will meet the U.S. Treasury Department's auto task force this week, but no public statement is expected after the meeting, a Treasury official said on Tuesday.
France hopes to have 2 million electric cars on the road by 2020, and its energy minister Jean-Louis Borloo will on Thursday launch a plan designed to ensure the necessary infrastructure is in place in time.
Italy is ready to extend vehicle buying incentives to help the industry beyond the year end if necessary, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday, in response to lobbying from Fiat SpA (FIA.MI) and other carmakers.
Daimler (DAIGn.DE) will hire 800 more staff for its Brazilian commercial vehicles business and keep open a U.S. truck plant as the two key markets show signs of reviving, the world's biggest truckmaker said.
Turkey's Competition Board said on Wednesday it had opened an investigation into 19 of the country's largest auto companies, including foreign firms operating in Turkey, for alleged price-fixing since 2006.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Wednesday called distracted driving a serious epidemic with more than 5,800 annual U.S. traffic deaths tied to motorists who failed to keep their eyes on the road.
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) plans to consolidate purchases of resin materials among group firms to cut costs and strengthen its bargaining power, the Nikkei business daily reported.
A unit of Navistar International Corp (NAV.N) and China's Jianghuai Automobile (600418.SS) plan to set up a 50-50 truck venture with investment of at least 2 billion yuan ($293 million), Jianghuai said on Tuesday.
China's Ministry of Commerce has approved plans by General Motors Co [GM.UL] to acquire certain assets of bankrupt Delphi Corp (DPHIQ.PK), Xinhua, the country's official news agency, reported on Tuesday.
U.S. auto sales likely fell in September back to the nearly three-decade lows of early 2009 without government incentives to spur buying, leaving in doubt the timing and pace of a recovery for the battered industry.
Africa's biggest transport and logistics group Imperial Holdings Ltd (IPLJ.J) said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy a 56 percent stake in auto part retailer Midas Group.
Russia's carmaker AvtoVAZ (AVAZ.MM) plans to assemble Nissan's (7201.T) class 'B' cars at its production facilities by 2012, officials and sources at AvtoVAZ and local administration told Reuters on Friday.
Volkswagen (VOWG.DE) and the IG Metall union have struck a wage deal for 95,000 staff in six western German plants that calls for a 4.2 percent pay rise plus one-off payments.
New United Motor Manufacturing Inc (NUMMI), a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and the former General Motors Corp [GM.UL] in California, will shed its entire workforce of about 4,700 by next spring, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.
Holley Performance Products, a maker of high-performance carburetors and automotive fuel-injection systems, filed for bankruptcy on Monday, its second filing in less than two years.
Koenigsegg's chief executive said on Saturday the Swedish luxury sports car maker still aimed to finalize a deal to buy Saab Automobile from General Motors by the end of October.
Honda Motor Co has unveiled an electric battery-powered personal transporter, a unicycle shaped like the number eight that riders steer by leaning in the direction they want to travel.
The European Commission and officials from countries hosting Opel factories will discuss on Oct. 7 Germany's controversial plan to grant state aid for the ailing European carmaker.
A U.S. Treasury Department watchdog will study decisions by General Motors Co [GM.UL] and Chrysler to cut more than 2,000 dealers, a key bailout watchdog said on Thursday.
Nearly one out of five U.S. drivers surveyed has read or sent a text message while behind the wheel, even though nearly all of the respondents in an AAA survey released on Friday considered such action unacceptable.
General Motors Co GM.UL could extend its offer of a 60-day, money-back guarantee for consumers when the marketing program expires at the end of November, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said on CNBC on Friday.
Ford Motor Co (F.N) announced on Thursday plans to build a new $490-million flexible assembly plant in China, its third in the country, increasing annual production capacity by one-third to meet growing demand.
