Mercedes hands U.S. plant an ultra-luxury mission

Automotive designer Henrik Fisker, who tried to start his own car company more than a decade ago, is taking another shot — this time with an electric SUV he says will be priced starting under $40,000.

Renault and Nissan need to "considerably simplify" decision-making processes in their alliance, Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard said in a newspaper interview.

The automaker expects to have 2,700 job openings by early 2020 at other thriving plants, enough to absorb nearly all of those displaced in plants in Maryland, Ohio and Michigan willing or able to uproot for work hundreds of miles away.

"I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING," President Donald Trump said in a tweet Sunday after he said he had just spoken to GM's CEO about the plant.

Lynk & CO hopes to shake up the traditional retail and ownership model with a no-initial-payment subscription plan, no-haggle pricing, online shopping and software that facilitates car sharing.

Since Bollinger Motors moved last fall from Hobart, N.Y., to a gritty industrial park just north of Detroit, the company has been quietly turning its concept all-wheel-drive electric off-road vehicle into one that is production-ready.

After 25 years of building vehicles in South Carolina, BMW says the time is now right to consider sourcing U.S. transmissions.

Knowing the origins of the scandal involving former Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn is paramount to preventing its repeat and assessing the strength of the alliance's attempted reboot.

BMW Group is bundling its BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce brands into a single sales division led by Pieter Nota in a management shuffle prompted by the upcoming retirement of Peter Schwarzenbauer.

U.S. regulators will ask the public if robotic cars should be allowed on streets without steering wheels or brake pedals as they try to set the first legal boundaries for their design in the world's second-largest vehicle market.