If Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz arm overtakes BMW as the world’s top-selling luxury automaker, it may have to thank China chief Hubertus Troska for his efforts.
Read More »Johnson Controls to name seating and interiors spinoff company Adient
Johnson Controls today said its seating and interiors business that is being spun off into a separate company will be named Adient.
Read More »GM takes customer loyalty crown from Ford
General Motors finished the 2015 model year with the most loyal customers, unseating Ford Motor Co., which had won the distinction for five consecutive years.
Read More »Ford expects 2015 pretax profit to set record, says '16 may be even better
Ford today said it earned a record pretax profit of at least $10.5 billion in 2015 and that it would match or beat that result in 2016.
Read More »Toyota won't rush to fully autonomous vehicles, Lentz says
While Google’s gumdrop-shaped self-driving car is logging thousands of miles on the streets of California, don’t expect to jump in the backseat of a Toyota anytime soon for a robot-chauffeured ride.
Read More »Magna to stay flexible on tech partnerships
Fresh on the heels of his company’s $1.9 billion acquisition of transmission supplier Getrag last week, Magna CEO Don Walker said he sees no slowdown in the pace of consolidation among auto suppliers.
Read More »Google is hunting self-driving partners, Krafcik says
Most automakers and suppliers see self-driving cars arriving at the end of a long, step-by-step process. Google wants to skip straight to the endgame. Nevertheless, the search engine giant is turning to industry players for help.
Read More »GM delays Super Cruise rollout
General Motors’ timeline to introduce its first semi-autonomous vehicle has slipped by several months as the automaker works to perfect the system, which allows hands-free highway driving even while in traffic.
Read More »Sales plateau? GM is ready, Ammann says
If U.S. automotive sales are about to plateau at a time of turmoil in markets around the globe, General Motors is ready for it. So said GM President Dan Ammann today in a speech at the Automotive News World Congress.
Read More »Industry is plateauing, AutoNation's Jackson warns
U.S. auto sales are beginning to plateau even as automakers strive for yet-higher volume, and that could trigger a resurgence of the industry’s bad habits, the leader of the nation’s largest new-car retailer warned today.
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