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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The majority of serious crashes involving cars and heavy trucks are caused by driver factors such as speeding or failure to stay in lane by the automobile drivers, according to a report released Tuesday by American Trucking Associations.
Nissan Motor Co. reported a 35-percent drop in third-quarter profit after sales tumbled in China and new models trailed competitors in the United States. Net income fell to 54.1 billion yen ($581 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31, from 82.7 billion yen a year earlier, the company said in a statement today.
Following another month of fears that the US East Coast and Gulf ports could be hit by a widespread strike by longshoremen, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) has announced that a tentative agreement has been reached between the United States
Following an agreement signed between General Motors and Russian vehicle maker Gaz at the beginning of 2011, the companies have officially rolled their first Chevrolet Aveo off the line this week at the Gaz assembly plant in Nizhny Novgorod. Assembly is being carried out from complete knockdown (CKD) kits shipped from GM Korea by Maersk […]
