Mazda Motors Europe posted three sales records last month: highest September volume (up 5% to 33,500 units; highest first fiscal half volume of 180,500 vehicles (up 17%); and highest nine-month-calendar year sales - of 279,600 units, up 18%.

A new BASF plant for the manufacture of automotive spring aids made of Cellasto for approximately five million vehicles per year is to be built in Shanghai by early 2010.

Visteon has opened an office in St. Petersburg in order to provide an expanded level of service to Visteon's customers operating in Russia.

Car sales in India rose 2.8% year-on-year in September to 108,823 units, bucking a trend to declining sales in recent months.

BMW has reported strong sales growth in China this year. The company says that its January-September group sales in mainland China rose 30.4% to 47,342 units.

GM Korea has announced that it will be offering to pay customers' acquisition taxes, as well as throw in free navigation systems and special discounts for selected Cadillac and Saab models until the end of the month.

Honda's 'emerging market' City sedan is to go on sale in Australia next February.

General Motors will close its Janesville, Wisconsin, sport utility vehicle factory on 23 December, about two years earlier than planned, according to local media reports.

Ford chief financial officer Don Leclair retires on 1 November, after a 32-year career with the automaker, to be replaced by Lewis Booth.

General Motors has launched its US luxury brand Cadillac at the 2008 Australian International Motor Show in Sydney. Sales in both Australia and New Zealand start early next year.

Ford is considering selling part of its 33.4% stake in Mazda Motor Corporation, Japanese media have reported.

Ford Motor China has reported sales of 240,879 units for the first nine months of 2008, up from 224,849 during the same period last year.

The first electric Porsche will go on sale next year.

Domestic market sales by at Volkswagen's Spanish unit Seat unit are set to drop over 22% this year and at a similar rate in 2009 as the car market fails to recover, its top executive has said.

Opel is fighting to retain the amount of vehicle development work it does for the GM group, according to the Opel works council.

BMW chief executive Norbert Reithofer has warned against painting a bleak financial outlook and said he's sticking to his profit forecast for the year.

BMW's Dingolfing plant is the latest to come to a standstill for a few days.

In 15 years or so, the body style preference of the Brazilian car buyer has changed noticeably.

New research from EurotaxGlass's, the publisher of Glass's Guide, has found that a comprehensive clean inside and out can add up to £600 to the value of a used car. The news coincides with Car Care Week which is sponsored

World title contender Felipe Massa has vehemently denied that he deliberately clipped rival Lewis Hamilton's car during Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix. Hamilton started the race in pole position and was vying for the lead at the first turn. Taking the