Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury A report by the Center of Automotive Research at the university of Duisburg-Essen in Germany has revealed that Mercedes-Benz, currently the number three luxury carmaker, could move up to number two in 2015, Automotive News reported. Mercedes owned the second slot until last year, when Audi overtook... 

Filed under: Budget, Performance, Marketing/Advertising, Scion Toyota may seek to reposition Scion in the wake of slower sales, according to Automotive News. It’s been 10 years since the Japanese automaker unveiled its youth-oriented brand, and Toyota recognizes that the original target demographic has officially grown up. After concluding a nine-month... 

Filed under: Chrysler Chrysler executive Dan Knott, considered an all-around great guy, took medical retirement on April 13 due to cancer, and he sadly passed away on April 29. His 24-year tenure with The Pentastar began in the role of senior engineer. By the time he took the job as head of procurement in 2009, he had helped create marquee SRT models including... 

Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada Automotive News reports Mitsubishi plans to bring its recently unveiled Mirage to the Canadian market, and that the five-door hatch has a 50-percent chance of making it to U.S. buyers as well. Mitsubishi pulled the Mirage nameplate from the U.S. in 2002, but unveiled a new version of the car in Thailand just... 

Filed under: Hybrid, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota Rumors that Toyota would some day build the Prius in the U.S. have bounced around for years, with a location in Mississippi often being cited as the most likely candidate. After that plan was officially scrapped in 2008, a new version of the same story returned in 2010 when a Toyota executive vice president said... 

Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, GM, Lincoln There has been a lot of discussion from industry analysts about who will replace Ford CEO Alan Mulally, but he’s not the only CEO of a major American automaker that will eventually need a successor. Dan Akerson, CEO of General Motors since shortly after its emergence from bankruptcy in 2009, told Automotive... 

Filed under: Minivan/Van, Marketing/Advertising, Work, Nissan, Specialty “So here’s the pitch. It’s a movie about a car. But it’s not really about a car. It’s about something else. What that is isn’t important. But it’s got a car in it. Not just one car, but lots of cars. Thousands of them actually. And they’re... 

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Alfa Romeo, Luxury Alfa Romeos were meant to be on sale here after summer, but we all know that’s not happening. Nevertheless, lentamente, Alfa Romeo‘s return to the U.S. progresses. According to a story in Automotive News, Fiat was earlier this month granted the U.S. trademark for “Alfa Romeo 4C” for... 

Filed under: Mercedes-Benz, Earnings/Financials, Middle East Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments spent $2.7 billion buying 9.1 percent of Daimler in 2009. At the time, Aabar said it was “excited by the commercial potential of our partnership,” both companies said it was a long-term investment and spoke of joint ventures, and Mercedes-Benz committed... 

Filed under: Sedan, Lincoln, Design/Style, Luxury Ford design chief J Mays tells Automotive News that the controversial grille design that debuted on the 2013 Lincoln MKZ at the New York Auto Show won’t necessarily be pasted onto the front of every Lincoln model. Mays means something quite specific, though: the perimeter of the grille and headlight form...