General Motors will roll out more than 20 new and face-lifted vehicles in China this year to shore up sales growth. Half of the vehicles will be new nameplates, the Detroit automaker said, without releasing more specifics about the models. Some of the new models will be electrified vehicles, which will be launched to “tap […]

LONDON — Nissan has canceled plans to build its new X-Trail SUV in its factory in Sunderland, England. The automaker said the uncertainty surrounding Britain’s future relationship with the European Union after Brexit was making it harder to plan for the future. “The company has decided to optimize its investments in Europe by consolidating X-Trail […]

STOCKHOLM — Volvo Cars, which is owned by China’s Geely, could seek external investors for its Polestar electric car brand and list the unit on the stock market but has no immediate plans to do so, the company said Thursday. Germany’s   Capital   magazine, quoting Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson, said Polestar could tap financial investors to […]

Nissan is trimming production at its Canton, Miss., plant as full-size pickup and commercial van sales slide. Up to 700 employees could be idled  

SHANGHAI – Sales of electrified vehicles have been surging in China for years. But until recently, it remained unknown who was buying many of the vehicles. But a new research project led by Beijing-based news website  Sina.com  discovered that a big chunk of the EVs automakers claim to have sold have ended up at their […]

U.S. sales for each of the five largest auto brands — Ford, Toyota, Chevrolet, Honda and Nissan — declined in 2018. But the No. 6 brand, Jeep, grew enough to keep the entire industry in the black for the year. More at Autonews    

The Madrid Central ZEZ zone is one of three distinct environmental zones that can be activated under different scenarios – and foreign motorists cannot yet buy a badge for any of them. Spanish authorities in effect have banned vehicles with foreign license plates from central Madrid under tough new clean-air regulations. Spanish authorities in effect […]

U.S. light-vehicle sales are expected to finish the year up slightly from 2017, defying forecasts that almost unanimously called for the industry to post a second consecutive annual decline. Higher fleet deliveries, low unemployment and Tesla’s rapid production ramp-up are among the reasons that sales likely increased in the face of rising interest rates and […]

A German engineering firm has agreed to plead guilty to a felony in the United States and pay a $35 million fine for its role in assisting Volkswagen Group to market and sell diesel-powered vehicles in the U.S. that used a defeat device to cheat on emissions testing. IAV GmbH, headquartered in Berlin with offices […]

Sales at General Motors’ two joint ventures in China, SAIC General Motors Corp. and SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co., declined for the fourth consecutive month in November. Last month, sales at SAIC-GM, GM’s car joint venture with SAIC Motor Corp., fell 17 percent to 180,662, according to SAIC, a Shanghai-listed company. SAIC-GM, a 50-50 partnership between SAIC […]