Audi will manufacture the A3 sedan at the Gyor plant in Hungary, where expansion work is currently being done, a company communication executive told Inautonews.com. Mr. Josef Schlossmacher, Audi’s Product and Technology communication manager, told us that the A3 sedan for Europe will be built in Hungary, at the Gyor plant located in the western […]
GM might stop auto production at Opel’s Bochum plant in Germany sooner than planned as the automaker tries to make more cost cuts. Talks between Opel’s management and workers regarding the Bochum plant have begun in June 2012, with the decision that the plant will be closed in 2016. On Tuesday, January 22nd, GM Vice […]
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America along with major automakers, safety advocates and transportation officials from across the country, are joining together to urge the Federal Communications Commission to protect the 5.9 GHz band of spectrum. The spectrum is set aside for connected vehicle technology – which is expected to save thousands of lives each […]
With its allotment of vehicles for U.S. dealers capped at 734,000 units for a second straight year, industrywide growth means the auto maker won’t show a percentage sales gain and its market share will drop, sales chief Bob Pradzinski says.
BMW AG plans to earn the first profit in 2013 from a 2-year-old venture that rents cars by the minute, potentially overtaking Daimler AG in a push to make efforts to woo urban consumers pay off. DriveNow GmbH, BMW’s car-sharing venture with rental company Sixt AG, will limit expansion to focus on making money, Andreas […]
Germany’s Volkswagen AG says it started off the year with brisk car sales, as deliveries outside Europe — particularly in China — helped more than offset declines in its home market. Europe’s largest automaker said Tuesday overall January sales were up 17.4 percent to 491,900 from 419,100 in January 2012.
The UAW, trying a third time to organize Nissan Motor Co.’s U.S. workers, accused Japan’s second-largest automaker of threatening to shut its Canton, Miss., factory before it allows the union in.
Stuttgart prosecutors have extended a probe into market manipulation during Porsche’s failed bid to take over Volkswagen to all members of Porsche SE’s supervisory board, including chairman Wolfgang Porsche and his cousin, Ferdinand Piech.
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