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Audi CEO Rupert Stadler is confident that his automaker will remain the world's second-largest premium brand after BMW this year despite a product trough and a big challenge from fast-growing Mercedes....

North America is central to Subaru's ambitious new business plan that aims to boost global sales 33 percent by 2020....

Conditions are ripe for a big buy-sell year. The 2014 pace of dealership consolidation already is almost double that of 2013, one broker says. And the market is likely to stay red-hot....

The new five-year plan laid out last week by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles left many analysts and investors wondering whether the executive team was hallucinating for the second time in five years....

Kia Motors aims to sell 5,000 electric units of its boxy Soul subcompact a year worldwide. Kia expects the United States to be the Soul EV's biggest market. The Soul EV, which went on sale April 14 in South Korea, will hit U.S....

Audi's technology-rich showroom in London's Mayfair district showcases a revolutionary way to sell not just cars but the brand itself. It's even a stop for guided tours....

Toyota Racing Development, mostly known for racing parts and accessories for street-legal vehicles, will offer factory-installed TRD Pro off-road kits on the Tacoma, Tundra and 4Runner....

Tesla said its deal to supply Toyota Motor Corp. with battery packs and motors for a rechargeable crossover will conclude this year....

Tim Mahoney, Chevrolet's global chief marketing officer, inherited a fresh "Find New Roads" theme when he took over in spring of 2013. The "new" message has gotten more challenging for Chevrolet amid General Motors' recall crisis....

Tires chirp. A couple writhes in the rain. A man enters a hotel with an attractive woman on each arm. This is not your uncle's Lexus ad....

Jon Brancheau, Nissan's North American marketing chief who helped the brand sharpen its image with consumers over the past four years, is leaving the company. Both Brancheau and Nissan officials today said the move was voluntary....

Ford said today that it is issuing two more recalls of the Ford Escape crossover, putting the number of recalls covering the Escape since its 2013 redesign into double digits....

AutoCanada, the largest publicly traded dealer group in Canada, said Thursday its net income rose 22 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier to $8.3 million Canadian ($7.6 million U.S....

BMW Group's joint venture with SGL Group will spend $200 million to triple the capacity of its carbon fiber products plant in Washington....

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said today it was recalling an estimated 780,477 minivans after reports of overheating, including some fires, in third-row power window vent switches....

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Seating and electronics supplier Lear will ask a bankruptcy court judge in New York later this month to sign off on an $8.75 million settlement to a Detroit lawsuit involving automotive supplier price-fixing over the previous decade....

Subaru parent Fuji Heavy Industries will stop making the Toyota Camry at its Indiana factory in the fall of 2016. Production will shift to Toyota's plant in Kentucky....

The maker of red-hot Subaru vehicles says it may expand annual capacity at its Indiana assembly plant to 400,000 units after 2017. It also plans to introduce of a new vehicle platform and more efficient fuel-injected engines....

Passenger-vehicle sales in China rose 13 percent last month as consumers brought forward purchases in anticipation more cities will implement ownership restrictions to fight pollution and congestion, according to an industry group....