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Scott Tobin, a key architect of Lincoln’s turnaround as its director of product development, has abruptly elected to retire from the company effective later this week.

Volkswagen and global supplier Mobileye are forging a new partnership focused on the deployment of self-driving vehicles.

Wells Fargo will not finish paying back the estimated 600,000 customers it wrongly charged for auto insurance until at least 2020, the bank said in a letter to U.S. lawmakers seen by Reuters.

Detroit automakers expressed divergent views on how to reform U.S. rules on fuel economy and tailpipe emissions, even as they urged President Trump to continue coordinating the federal government’s policies with those enacted by California.

Daimler does not rule out cooperating with Tesla in future even though the German luxury car producer sold its stake in the electric-vehicle company, Daimler’s CEO told a Polish newspaper

A top Volkswagen engineer who was interviewed by America authorities about the diesel emissions-rigging scandal has no idea why the carmaker fired him, his attorney told a German judge.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a large shipment of counterfeit Mercedes-Benz auto parts this month in Philadelphia that were shipped from China.

China is considering a tax cut on car sales to revive its flagging automotive market, lending support to a key industry that’s been damaged by an ongoing trade war with the U.S.

FCA CEO Mike Manley is now reconsidering a decision announced in January to stop building Ram heavy-duty pickups at a plant in Saltillo, Mexico, which — along with another plant in suburban Detroit — would produce other Ram models and free up…

The supplier said it will be the sole provider of disconnecting all-wheel-drive units on the 2019 Ford Edge crossover, a new feature designed to improve fuel efficiency.