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UK new-car registrations rose 3 percent in January, helped by the first increase in demand from private consumers since March last year. The rise came despite fears a vote to leave the EU in June would hit private car sales.

PSA will begin assembling the Peugeot 3008 and 508 models in Kenya with local partner URYSIA, its long-standing Kenyan importer and distributor. The automaker previously assembled vehicles in the east African country between 1974 and 2002.

VW Group is being sued by German fish distributor Deutsche See for misrepresenting a fleet of vehicles it leased as environmentally friendly, making the company the first major German customer to sue VW over its emissions-cheating scandal.

Volkswagen Group is being sued by German fish distributor Deutsche See for misrepresenting a fleet of vehicles it leased as environmentally friendly, making the company the first major German customer to sue VW over its emissions-cheating scandal.

Spy photos of the long-rumored and much-discussed midengine Chevrolet Corvette illustrate just how much of a departure the new sports car would be in terms of design and engineering.

Porsche’s U.S. dealers will get the additional 10 percent bump in allocation of the 911 sports car for which they’ve been pleading.

A lack of cutting-edge technology has long kept Suzuki Motor Corp., one of Japan’s smaller automakers, in constant search for a larger partner.

Longtime Detroit-area dealer Jack Demmer died Jan. 31. He was 93.

AutoNation sees used-vehicle sales at its soon-to-launch AutoNation USA used-vehicle stores as a major growth opportunity in 2017. The retailer has designed a strategy to fund the expansion which, CEO Mike Jackson said, won’t be a drag on earnings.