Toyota launches Mirai fuel cell vehicle, plans hydrogen stations in Northeast Auto News

Toyota offered more details about its long-awaited Mirai fuel cell vehicle and said it plans to build a dozen hydrogen refueling stations in the Northeast United States.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1qNJYVa

Source Auto News

Supplier upheaval fueled price fixingAuto News

To hear auto industry insiders in Japan, the country's problems with bid rigging began to spiral in the early 2000s. Or, more specifically, with the arrival of Carlos Ghosn, the cost-cutting CEO who parachuted into a nearly bankrupt Nissan Motor Co.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1xMmYMd

Source Auto News

At 'bid meetings,' suppliers aimed to maintain one another's market shareAuto News

When Japanese auto suppliers schemed to fix prices, it was as much about protecting market share as pumping up profits, an industry insider said.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1y9jRfF

Source Auto News

Confessions of a price fixerAuto News

As one after another Japanese auto supplier gets snagged for price fixing, it is the unwritten rule, say insiders and lawyers, that middle managers sometimes take the fall for superiors and get rewarded for not airing the company's dirty laundry in...



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1y9jPEC

Source Auto News

What is a recall? Automakers confuse drivers in deadly airbag sagaAuto News

andnbsp;



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1ui5K7d

Source Auto News

Chrysler's Marchionne told to give deposition in suit over Jeep fireAuto News

A Georgia judge ordered Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne to give a videotaped deposition in a lawsuit filed by the family of a 4-year-old child killed after the Jeep Grand Cherokee he was riding in was rear-ended and caught fire.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1sTbr8x

Source Auto News

Inside Ford's retooled F-150 plantAuto News

Ford Motor Co.'s conversion of its 2.6-million-square-foot Dearborn truck plant to build the aluminum-body 2015 F-150 pickup has altered the look of the assembly plant, body shop and adjoining stamping operations.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1ELlh23

Source Auto News

Rehired exec at center of Takata stormAuto News

This past summer, Takata rehired a retired engineering executive to oversee its embattled quality-control operation -- an executive who is now at the center of a fresh controversy involving the company's disclosures about its defective airbags.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/117XJaw

Source Auto News

Chevy eyes Buick's regional ad styleAuto News

Chevy's approach to its so-called Tier 2 advertising, under which regional dealer groups pool money to buy ads, is in something of a transition.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/117XImU

Source Auto News

Dealerships' newspaper ad spending forecast to diveAuto News

Auto dealers large and small will eliminate $800 million worth of print advertising from U.S. newspapers next year, according to a new industry forecast, accelerating their media rush onto the Internet.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/117XIn4

Source Auto News

Ford extends Ranger recall in U.S. to look at driver's side airbagAuto News

A recall of Ford Ranger pickup trucks in the United States was expanded to include more flawed Takata airbags after a fatal accident in Malaysia exposed a defect that wasn't previously known.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1zWUQZ1

Source Auto News

Hyundai U.S. Marketing Boss Leaves (11/14/14)

Steve Shannon, formerly of GM, departs amid tepid sales; Honda sticks with hockey; Hellcats hit the...

from TumblrCynthia Lin

Lutz's VIA Motors gets EPA certification for vanAuto News

VIA Motors, a fledgling retrofitter whose chairman is veteran auto executive Bob Lutz, says it has received EPA certification for a plug-in hybrid van. The company equips vans and trucks with plug-in hybrid powertrains and sells them to fleet buyers.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1BqDk18

Source Auto News

Hertz to restate results, change fleet-purchase strategyAuto News

Hertz said today it will revise financial statements from 2011 through 2013 and continue a review that has found $87 million of errors so far.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1EFtkgR

Source Auto News

Cadillac inks lease on its NYC headquartersAuto News

Cadillac has chosen a space in New York for its new global headquarters, after coming under fire in September for its plan to move away from General Motors' Detroit headquarters, real estate companies for the automaker said Thursday.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1tRJldb

Source Auto News

Executives from Japan's NSK, Jtekt indicted in U.S. for price-fixingAuto News

Two more executives from Japanese auto suppliers have been indicted as part of the Justice Department's long-running investigation into price-fixing in the auto parts industry, the government said today.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/14n5Jq2

Source Auto News

Hyundai's U.S. marketing boss Shannon steps downAuto News

Hyundai Motor America's marketing chief Steve Shannon left the company on Thursday to 'pursue other interests.' Hyundai announced the departure in a statement today.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1x1iaTb

Source Auto News

Ford's European sales up 8% on UK, ItalyAuto News

Ford increased European car sales by 8 percent in October, its fifth straight monthly gain, as it benefited from double-digit growth in the UK and Italy. Overall 10-month sales also rose 8 percent.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1EDJBmv

Source Auto News

Ford taps independent software developersAuto News

Ford is betting on open systems and the innovative capabilities of external software developers in its vehicle connectivity strategy, said Barbara Samardzich, Ford of Europe's COO.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1EDJBmf

Source Auto News

Mercedes, Mini top J.D. Power sales satisfaction rankingsAuto News

Mercedes-Benz ranked highest in sales satisfaction among luxury brands in the J.D. Power 2014 U.S. Sales Satisfaction Index Study released today. For a fifth consecutive year, Mini ranks highest among mass-market brands, with a score of 727.



from Automotive News Breaking News Feed http://ift.tt/1xVi9OQ

Source Auto News