AUTO

Fiat SpA is convinced it has more than a 50 percent chance of succeeding in its bid for Opel because it does not think the other contenders have the expertise to revive the car maker, an Italian newspaper said.

The families who control Porsche are open to the idea of selling a stake to an outside investor, the company said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama's tough fuel economy program for vehicles could put another damper on the struggling ethanol business, because the alternative fuel packs a lower energy content than gasoline.

The tough U.S. fuel economy standards announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday represents a bonanza for companies that supply hybrid technology and other gas-conserving components needed to meet the new benchmarks.

Staring at the locked gates of a Fiat car factory, Mimmo Vacchiano says many families in this poor corner of southern Italy face a stark choice unless its turnstiles reopen.

Some auto dealers that Chrysler LLC plans to close are beginning a challenge to the automaker's plans to quickly sell itself in bankruptcy.

Daimler is taking a 10 percent stake in Tesla Motors, a U.S. based electric car start-up, as it expands its green auto business, the head of Daimler's research department said on Tuesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at climate-warming greenhouse gases on Tuesday and obliged the struggling auto industry to make more efficient cars by imposing tough national standards to cut emissions and increase gas mileage.

Toyota Motor Corp said on Monday its new Prius had received pre-sale orders for 80,000 vehicles in Japan, kicking off what promises to be a fierce battle against hybrid rival Honda Motor Co.

General Motors Corp faces a government-imposed June 1 deadline to reach sweeping cost-cutting deals with bondholders and its union and has said it is probable it will follow rival Chrysler into bankruptcy.

South Korea's top technology university has developed a plan to power electric cars through recharging strips embedded in roadways that use a technology to transfer energy found in some electric toothbrushes.

A new car auction world record was set today in Maranello, Italy, with the sale of an iconic, pontoon-fender 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (TR) for $12.2 million (Euro 9,020,000) making it the most expensive car to be sold in an auction.

Honda Motor Co's earnings will hit bottom this year and improve beyond that as demand in the United States returns in the second half, the Japanese automaker's chief executive said on Friday.

General Motors Corp on Thursday said that if it files for bankruptcy it would most likely pursue a quick sale of its best assets out of court protection similar to the process now reshaping Chrysler LLC.

The map below demonstrates the chickenpox impact that just the initial round of Chrysler dealer shutdowns will have on the US economy. As is evident from the map (an interactive version of the map can be accessed here), the pain will be focused east of the Rockies, although major West Coast metropolises will not be spared either: every dot represents an automotive dealer that Chrysler disclosed to...

It was relatively easy for the Obamastration to dispense with a band of rogue hedge funds that were worrying the impending Chrysler-Fiat alliance. Once the names of the holdout creditors were made public, their revolt was crushed by public opinion. They used to be so, so cool, but we all hate hedge funds now.

Honda Motor Co (7267.T) is taking steps to raise output in Japan in preparation for a likely uptick in demand if a bill to offer consumers cash to replace old cars becomes law, its chief financial officer said on Wednesday.

Fiat (FIA.MI) is discussing closing one of its plants in Italy and reducing operations at another, German unions have told their Italian counterparts, an official of Italy's FIM-CISL union told Reuters on Wednesday.

Auto dealers lobbied Congress on Wednesday to try to slow plans by General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC to cut their ranks.

With General Motors Corp planning to end production of Saturns and Pontiacs at its Delaware plant which employs more than 1,000 people, state leaders are scrambling to win new work at the facility or persuade the company to move other operations to the region.

GMAC has

AutoUSA, the industry's leading provider of the highest quality Internet-generated consumer leads to auto dealer's nationwide, today announced that 86 dealer clients have made this year's Ward's e-Dealer 100 list.

Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of both Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) and Renault SA (RENA.PA), said he would not resign as the Japanese carmaker's chief before it was once again comfortably making profits.

The Wall Street Journal off-leads and Bloomberg reports that Ford Motor Co. (F), the most robust of the Big Three, plans to issue 300 million shares of common stock in a public offering that will further distance itself from its crosstown rivals and will take advantage of an 11-week stock rally.

U.S. auto parts maker Hayes Lemmerz International Inc (HAYZ.O) said on Monday it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

General Motors Corp. is considering all options to cut costs, even moving out of its Detroit headquarters, but no decision has been made, chief executive Fritz Henderson said on Monday.

Chrysler's 16,000 salaried retirees will start their fight this week for their benefits in the automaker's bankruptcy restructuring, with the potential to create a public relations headache for the company.

General Motors Corp CEO Fritz Henderson said Monday in a conference call the company was

A growing number of auto workers are winding up on the streets in and around Toyota City in central Japan as the global downturn sends the world's biggest carmaker plunging into the red.