Industry

Nissan's market share is up 5.4% for all of Europe compared to last year, and it is growing across the continent. It sold 51,147 units in Europe for October. The market share in Russia is up 7.5%; the UK is up 4.5%, and France is up 15.1%....

Jaguar Land Rover and Chery Automobile have broken ground on a $1.75 billion joint factory in Changshu, China. The two companies also have approval from the Chinese government to form a joint venture to build and sell Jaguar Land Rover vehicl...

Despite automotive sales in Europe being down by around 8% for the year so far, advertising spending by European automakers is about 3.9% in Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain.  France, Italy and Spain are among the countries where ...

While Ford still plans to bring the next generation Mustang to Europe, Ford worries that it is too big and has too low fuel economy to be a big seller. It had planned to offer a smaller, more fuel efficient sports coupe to compliment the Mustang, ...

Ford has announced that it will bring the 1.0 EcoBoost engine to North America in the Fiesta for the 2014 model year. Ford expects that it will be the most fuel efficient, non-hybrid car available in the United States when it goes on sale, but it ...

Production of the modern Fiat 500 started in Poland in 2007 and five years later Fiat has built its one-millionth unit of the retro-styled, sub-compact car. It began building the car in Mexico in 2011 for North America as well. The car went on sal...

Citroën has built its 200,000th DS3 at its Poissy factory in France. The car was a Sport Chic THP 155 that will go to Spain. Production of the DS3 started in March 2010.  Citroën expects DS3 sales to expand even further in the n...

Ford and GM expect to lose a combined $1 billion for the quarter, and they both know that they must find a solution to stem these losses in the future.  Ford's solution so far has been the most simple. It has decided two close two fac...

Sergio Marchionne gave his major speed on the state of Fiat today, and as suspected, things are not doing well for the company. Operating profits were down 61% to €219 million compared to last year, and the company predicts continued declines...

Sergio Marchionne's big speech on the state of Fiat and Chrysler is coming tomorrow, October 30, and the news is expected to be very negative. Marchionne announced in 2010 that he wanted Fiat to sell 6 million cars a year by 2014, and it n...