Author: Automotive News Feed

BMW plans to strengthen internal synergies between its BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce brands as it aims to make permanent its nine-year reign as the world’s No. 1 premium automaker.

Who won the Super Bowl commercial war? Apparently, luxury brands Maserati and Jaguar were victorious in their efforts to get the Ghibli and F-Type on consumers’ radars.

Frigid weather and weak fleet sales held January U.S. auto sales 3 percent below brisk year-ago volume. Automakers and dealers sold 1,011,187 light vehicles for the month. The seasonally adjusted annual selling rate was 15.

GM posted its largest year-over-year sales decline in 41 months as light-vehicle deliveries fell at least 10 percent for three of its four U.S. brands in January.

Ford Motor said the poor weather and arctic temperatures that hammered its strongholds in the nation’s midsection and Northeast took a bite out of the company’s sales in January.

GM’s January U.S. sales results looked a lot like the record-low temperatures across the Midwest in Detroit for much of last month. In other words, there were a whole lot of negative numbers.