Looking to expand its customer base in India, Nissan Motor Co.'s local arm is planning to expand and improve its after-sales services to compete with bigger rivals, according to company officials. Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd., which has a limited presence and a market share ...
As Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. begin to scour the U.S. in search of a location for the first new auto assembly plant announced since President Donald Trump took power, one state looks like a front-runner: Mississippi. The Magnolia State is already home ...
Honda Motor Co.'s go-it-alone strategy looks increasingly risky as the alliance-happy auto industry scales up to cope with the soaring investment needed for self-driving vehicles, electrified powertrains, connected-car technologies and artificial intelligence. In the latest industry tieup, Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. announced ...
Sales of new imported foreign-brand vehicles in Japan dropped 3.8 percent in July from a year before, marking the first fall in 16 months, due partly to soft sales of Volkswagen cars, an industry body said Friday. Sales of cars, trucks and buses made by ...
When it comes to recruiting tech talent, Toyota Motor Corp. is anything but subtle. The Japanese automaker recently launched a marketing campaign targeting information technology specialists and software engineers along Tokyo's suburban Nambu railway line, where the research centers of Japan's signature tech giants are ...
Akio Toyoda has opened an account on Weibo seeking to win friends in China, an uncommon social media presence for Toyota Motor Corp.'s boss. Toyoda, 61, the president and chief executive officer of Asia's biggest automaker, got more than 16,000 followers within hours of his ...
Toyota Motor Corp. stood out as the only major automaker to increase U.S. sales last month, while Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. both beat projections, as demand at traditional U.S. automakers slumped. Sales at Toyota rose 3.6 percent in July, defying estimates of ...
Honda Motor Co. said on Thursday that a Takata air bag inflator ruptured in a car crash last week in Florida in what could be the 19th death worldwide linked to faulty air bags recalled as part of the largest automotive safety campaign in ...
The group including Japan's Nissan Motor Co. and France's Renault SA is likely to be the global vehicle sales leader in January-June, data indicated Thursday. Global vehicle sales at the group, also including Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp., totaled 5,268,079 units, surpassing 5,155,600 units notched up ...
Asian carmakers are taking hits to their profits from having to spend more to move metal in America. Nissan Motor Co. and Hyundai Motor Co. both cited higher incentive spending in the U.S. as reasons behind a slump in quarterly profit, with a political backlash ...
Toyota Motor Corp., off to a slow start selling its car of the future on one U.S. coast, is struggling even to get started on the other. Hang-ups getting enough hydrogen-fueling stations opened in California have undercut early sales of the fuel cell vehicle named ...
Honda Motor Co. opened a proving ground for automobiles and motorcycles in eastern Thailand on Thursday. The testing location in Prachinburi province is Honda's first facility in Asia outside of Japan. The automaker's local subsidiary, Honda R&D Asia Pacific Co., said that it invested over 1.7 ...
