MILAN (Reuters) – Italian car part suppliers see their small average size struggling to adapt to industry changes following the merger of local carmaker Fiat Chrysler with France’s PSA which created Stellantis earlier this year, a lobby survey showed on Thursday. Global carmakers are investing billions to accelerate a transition […]
Makers
From sewing machines to guns, televisions to aircraft, these are the companies that made other products before branching out into cars. While some have gone on to become household names, others have disappeared into obscurity. Read on to see the cars that companies like Sony, Siemens and even Kalashnikov […]
German car brands are some of the most aspirational in the world. Synonymous with quality but no longer priced out of reach, German cars are now churned out in huge volumes and as a result have become far more accessible. But if you had to name a dozen German […]
This May, car manufacturers produced less than 55,000 vehicles, only half as much as two years ago. Monty Rakusen / Getty Images The production of cars in the UK has more than halved compared to the same period before the COVID-19 pandemic, due at least in part to an on-going […]
Text size Swiss bank UBS said there could be some profit-taking on shares of Daimler, which owns luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz. (Photo courtesy of Mercedes-Benz) Sales in China helped Daimler to a strong start in 2021, firmly beating analyst expectations across multiple measures for the first quarter and setting the […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota, Nissan, Honda and other Japanese automakers scrambled on Monday to assess the production impact of a fire at a Renesas Electronics automotive chip plant that could aggravate a global semiconductor shortage. “We are gathering information and trying to see if this will affect us or not,” […]
Executives at auto makers like Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co. were upbeat about the industry’s recovery in early fall. Demand was rebounding from pandemic lows, and their factories were humming again. Then came the warnings. Like the one in a Nov. 12 Skype call between VW’s logistics head and […]