Automotive News

Beijing-based Beiqi Foton Motor Co, the world's biggest commercial vehicle maker by sales last year, founded an international alliance on Aug 28, the most recent move by industry giants to grasp the anticipated boom in new energy ...

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd (GAC), China's sixth-largest auto producer by sales, was listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Aug 30, finally finishing its eight-year marathon to go public. ...

Executives from China's auto makers Sunday rejected an official warning that unchecked growth in the industry was leading to excess capacity and could harm the wider economy. Chen Bin, an official ...

Major Chinese automaker Chongqing Changan Automobile (000625.SZ) is in talks with Ford Motor (F.N) to expand their partnership beyond China, a senior Chinese executive said. Chongqing Changan, whic...

French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen (PEUP.PA) is on track to build a new China car plant with Dongfeng Motor Group (0489.HK), and is looking to export from China as early as 2011, its Asia chief said ...

Chang’an Ford are getting ready to launch the SVP Ford Fiesta, a special limited edition sports model, and echoes the Ford Focus SVP that was launched earlier this year. The Fiesta SVP will b...

Unchecked expansion of China's auto industry encouraged by local authorities could harm the wider economy, a central government official said Saturday, warning excess capacity must be "resolutely" sto...

TIANJIN: Nissan Motor is open to a green car alliance with Chinese automakers, a senior executive said on Saturday, as it moves to tap the fledgling industry in the world's largest auto market. Nis...

China’s auto sales jumped 55.7 percent year on year in August, boosted by Beijing’s new subsidies scheme for energy-saving vehicles, state media said on Thursday. Sales in the world&rsq...

China's car market will continue to grow this year but may not sustain the breakneck pace of last year, the chief executive of Ford Motor's (F.N) China car venture said on Saturday. "Overall this y...

Toyota has set it’s eyes on a sedan model in the FT-86 line-up. The website reports that the sedan variant will look very much like the coupe that means it would pretty much be a stretched version of the 2-door model. Along with s...

Encouraged by 10 straight months of sales gains, Nissan last weekend began a massive new marketing campaign designed to keep its momentum going as it pushes to increase its U.S. market share and, perh...

New-car registrations in dropped sharply in August in France, Italy and Spain as government incentives to buy new vehicles were slowly phased out or ended altogether. In France, registrations, whic...

China's top economic planner and a leading government-backed research body disagreed at an auto industry forum over whether the world's largest auto market is facing excessive capacity after breakneck...

Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp said it will build its fourth auto plant in India, boosting its output in one of the fastest growing car markets to 1.5 million units a year. Suzuki, which controls about ...