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One Ranking Illustrates Chinese Carmakers' Rise

4 brands made Australia's top 10 for sales in August

(Newser) - Four Chinese carmakers have muscled into Australia's automotive top 10 for the first time, as the country's appetite for Chinese-made vehicles soars. In August alone, Australians snapped up more than 20,000 Chinese cars, according to industry data, which is 8,000 more than they did the...

UK's Jaguar Land Rover Halts Shipments to US

Automaker makes its move amid tariffs from Trump administration on imported cars

(Newser) - The British maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars is pausing shipments to the United States as it works to mitigate the impact of a 25% tax on vehicle imports imposed by the Trump administration. Jaguar Land Rover Automotive, one of Britain's biggest carmakers, said Saturday that the pause...

Japanese Carmakers Scotch That Much Ballyhooed Merger

Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi decide to end talks of business integration

(Newser) - Japanese automakers Honda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi said on Thursday they're ending talks on business integration. Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida said the talks had changed focus from setting up a joint holding company to making Nissan into a subsidiary of Honda. "The intent was to join forces to win...

This Is North America's Car of the Year

Honda Civic hybrid wins top honors at Detroit Auto Show

(Newser) - The Honda Civic hybrid won the 2025 North American Car of the Year award, while the Ford Ranger took the crown for trucks, and the Volkswagen ID. Buzz won the utility vehicle award. The honors, announced Friday morning during an Automotive Press Association event kicking off the North American International...

German VW Workers Go on 'Warning' Strike

Struggling automaker wants to close 3 plants in Germany, cut worker pay by 10%

(Newser) - Volkswagen workers launched rolling two-hour strikes Monday at nine plants across Germany to underscore their resistance to pay cuts and factory closures the company says are necessary to cope with a slack European auto market. The work stoppages included the company's base plant at Wolfsburg, where workers rallied against...

Strike a 'Victory for Autoworkers,' Not Necessarily for Consumers

Car prices could jump more than $1K to pay for new labor costs, one auto expert says

(Newser) - General Motors, the final holdout in the United Auto Workers strike, finally caved this week, reaching a tentative agreement with workers that would bring to an end six weeks of strikes that targeted GM, Ford, and Stellantis—the so-called Big Three of Detroit. Details for all of the automakers' agreements...

Volvo's Electric Announcement Is an Industry First

Would be first carmaker to phase out cars powered by combustion engines

(Newser) - The heart of the auto industry keeps expanding outward from Detroit, the BBC notes: first west to Silicon Valley, thanks to Tesla, and now east to China, thanks to a major move from Volvo. The Swedish carmaker, owned by the Chinese firm Geely, is poised to become the world's...

Toyota Faces Massive Ad Buy to Rescue Brand

Recall leaves company's reputation in tatters

(Newser) - Toyota is going to have to shell out for the biggest and best ad campaign in its history to have any hope of bouncing back from the recall disaster, ad industry execs say. The company—which is losing an estimated $400 million a week while sales and production are suspended—...

700K Cars Sold Under Clunkers

(Newser) - The final numbers for the Cash for Clunkers are in, and they’re pretty rosy, the Los Angeles Times reports. Dealers had until yesterday to file for rebates, and the total was 690,114 new cars sold—and 690,114 clunkers traded in—for a total of $2.9 billion,...

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