GM CEO Announces ‘Modest’ US Expectations for 2013
10 Jan 2013, 14:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While some automakers are announcing that 2013 will be a record year, when they expect to sell more than they ever had, General Motors is not that confident that the new year will bring significant ...
BMW Expects Record Sales in 2013
10 Jan 2013, 14:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The BMW group (which includes MINI and Rolls-Royce) has announced that it expects 2013 to be an excellent sales year, and they reckon it will continue the upward trend which was very obvious in 2012...
Russian Output Increase May Not Be Wise - Automakers Still Push
10 Jan 2013, 10:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The European automotive production sector is crashing down, and it is doing it in a brutal manner. Factories are being closed down, workers sent home, production output is being reduced, automakers ...
Volkswagen Wants to End Van-Building Deal With Mercedes-Benz
10 Jan 2013, 08:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you may not have noticed, when looking at the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and the Volkswagen Crafter, but the two commercial vehicles are very much identical, and the only things that differ are the f...
GM Keeps Rising in China - Sales Up by 14.7% in 2012
9 Jan 2013, 13:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In the wake of the ‘Japan problem’, non-Japanese brands experienced substantial increase in sales, as Chinese buyers began boycotting Toyota, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi models for polit...
Chinese City Qingdao to Give Saab $307 Million Boost
9 Jan 2013, 08:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ever since National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB, or NEVS, took control of Saab, things have gotten extremely quiet, and aside from the auctioning off of some leftover cars they had, there have been n...
Carbon Fiber Tech from Lexus LFA to Be Used in Other Models
8 Jan 2013, 09:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Lexus LFA has officially gone out of production, and it will truly be missed. Aside from the exorbitant price tag, there was really nothing wrong with it, and it was one of the best-engineered a...
Coda Automotive Fires More Workers
7 Jan 2013, 15:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back around the middle of December 2012, Coda Automotive fired 50 workers from its production facility, which equated to around 15% of their entire workforce. Now, it seems that things are still not...
Fiat Interested in Increasing Chrysler Stake to 65%
7 Jan 2013, 11:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat-Chrysler group is now a single entity we have all-but gotten used to. The two companies are mutually helping each other, and so far pretty much all of their collaborative efforts have been ...
Canada to Invest $254 Million to Create More Auto Industry Jobs
7 Jan 2013, 09:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, has just announced that the government will be investing some C$250 in the country’s automotive sector, in order to increase the number of manufac...
Overall Fuel Efficiency of New Cars in the US Rises to 23.8 MPG
7 Jan 2013, 09:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The ‘green’ trend has clearly taken hold, and thanks to downsizing, hybrids, EVs and people just taking the bus, the combined fuel efficiency rating of all new vehicles sold in the US, i...
How Dacia Became Renault’s Cash Cow
7 Jan 2013, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Dacia, a brand which just over a decade ago was still building a mildly-modernized version of the old Renault 12, has become a real cash cow for its current owners, Renault. The Romanian brand alrea...
Why You Should Remember 2012
6 Jan 2013, 18:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Last year was a very eventful one, in terms of new cars being launched, and some of the cars which debuted last year are not only important for 2012, but they represent a lot more for a much b...
China to Build 23.8% of the World’s Automobiles in 2013
6 Jan 2013, 13:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Chinese automotive industry is on a bit of a tour-de-force, at the moment, and with a projected growth of around 10% in 2013, they don’t show any signs of stopping any time soon. Now, a...
Mazda Increasing Mexican Production to 230,000 in 2016
4 Jan 2013, 17:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Mazda’s yet to be finished new factory in Salamanca, Mexico, will not be pushing out cars until March 2014. Yet the car company has announced it will boost production capacity from 140,000 uni...
Germany - New Car Sales Fall by 2.9% in 2012
4 Jan 2013, 15:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that even the most powerful automaking country in Europe, Germany, can`t hold back the relentless downfall of the continent’s economy, and it shows. According to the VDIK, which is a ...
Altima Helps Nissan Boost 2012 US Sales to New Record
4 Jan 2013, 14:30 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan North America has just announced record US sales figures for the whole of 2012. The car company has managed to shift no less than 1,141,656 units versus 1,042,534 in 2011, an increase of 9.5 ...
Elio Motors to Buy Former GM Plant to Build Frugal Three-Wheeler
4 Jan 2013, 10:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The constant expansion and (now) contraction of GM, has affected thousands of people around the US (and the world), whom may have had a stable job one day, and no job the next. This sad reality has ...
Over 5,000 UK Drivers Banned in 2011 for Bad Eyesight
4 Jan 2013, 10:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The British Department for Transport (DfP) is a very strict institution, which does not take the problem of poor eyesight lightly! According to autoexpress.co.uk, the DfP revoked or blocked around ...
Ford F-Series Tops US Sales Charts for 2012
4 Jan 2013, 09:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Pickup trucks are still very popular in the US, even though the real need for one should have been slowly diminishing since the late 1960s, as more people moved into the city. However, Americans sti...