Category: Motor Age Articles

John Henke’s influential benchmark report on automaker-supplier relations has been acquired by Plante Moran, a Detroit-area consulting firm. 

Volvo Cars expects its success to continue in 2019 after a fifth consecutive year of record vehicle sales in 2018. The automaker, however, faces challenges after a trade dispute between the U.S. and China hit its financial results. 

Paul Whelan, a BorgWarner employee detained in Russia on suspicion of espionage, also holds British citizenship, and U.K. authorities have asked Moscow to grant them consular access to him.

BMW’s former head of brand and product management, Hildegard Wortmann, may be heading to Audi, according to press reports.

Tesla expects to receive certification to sell its Model 3 in Europe soon and it plans to start delivering Model 3 cars to customers in China in March.

Ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn is set to appear in a Tokyo court on Tuesday after he requested an open hearing to hear the reason for his continued detention.

For the first time in nearly a decade, annual new-vehicle sales fell in Canada. A total of 2,003,506 vehicles were sold, down 1.9 percent from 2017. A 6.5 percent dip in December sales helped drag down the annual total and mark…

The partnership will begin testing its autonomous food delivery services in the San Francisco area in March.

The UAW sued General Motors in federal court on Wednesday, claiming the automaker’s use of temporary workers at a plant in Indiana violates its labor deal.

Ford will be moving to quarterly reporting of U.S. sales figures. Mark LaNeve, Ford’s vice president for U.S. marketing, sales and service, said reporting potentially volatile monthly numbers is “just not how we want to run the business.”