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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV could halt production at one of its factories in Europe because of supply chain difficulties due to the new coronavirus outbreak in China, the firm's CEO has said. The prospective closure would be the first for a European car manufacturer. CEO Mike ...

Toyota sold a record 10.74 million units globally in 2019, up 1.4 percent from a year earlier.

French auto giant Renault SA on Tuesday named former Volkswagen Director Luca de Meo its chief executive as it seeks to regain its footing after a year of turmoil sparked by the November 2018 arrest of then-Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn. The 52-year-old Italian, credited ...

Volkswagen needs to make urgent changes to become more of a tech company as the industry enters the digital era, CEO Herbert Diess said Thursday, warning that the German car giant had just "one shot" at staying in the game. "The time of the classic ...

Car sales in China continued to decline in November, extending a historic slump and all but ensuring a second straight annual drop for the world's biggest auto market. Sales of sedans, sport utility vehicles, minivans and multipurpose vehicles fell 4.2 percent from a year earlier ...

Volkswagen AG is facing one of the largest-ever U.K. class action lawsuits, with almost 100,000 vehicle owners accusing it of misleading them by installing emissions-cheating software that made it appear their diesel vehicles met environmental standards. Lawyers for the drivers opened their case Monday, and ...

Volkswagen on Tuesday defended its car plant in Xinjiang, after leaked documents shed light on Chinese detention camps in the region holding over a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. Volkswagen said in a statement it was "aware of the situation in the region" and ...

Batteries and big price tags are all the rage at this year's Los Angeles Auto Show. While it'll be tough for any carmaker to top the buzz Ford Motor Co. has already generated with the debut of its Mustang Mach-E sport utility vehicle, several other ...

Japanese brands dominated the top three slots in Consumer Reports' annual auto reliability rankings released Thursday. Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus luxury brand was rated as the most reliable by the U.S. magazine, followed by Mazda Motor Corp.'s Mazda and the Toyota brand. In fourth and fifth ...

Volkswagen unveiled the newest incarnation of its iconic Golf hatchback on Thursday, counting on the bestseller to help fund a costly switch to the electric era and bridge the gap to the cars of the future. The eighth generation of the unglamorous but trusted compact ...

Bernhard Mattes, the head of Germany's auto lobby group VDA, resigned unexpectedly this week in the middle of the Frankfurt motor show, the showcase event the group hosts every two years. Mattes will leave his post as president by the end of the year, the ...