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TOKYO — Mazda isn’t talking much yet about its next-generation Skyactiv-X engine in the U.S. But the powerplant’s rollout in Japan foreshadows how the high-tech offering plays into the carmaker’s global strategy to improve its brand image and pricing power.…
DETROIT — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer touted Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ $ 4.5 billion investment in five manufacturing operations in the Detroit area as “the biggest automotive assembly plant deal in the United States in a decade.” It also was arguably the…
Hoping to take some of the complexity out of a product portfolio that has proliferated in nameplates, model variants, trim packages and engine options over the last two decades, Mercedes-Benz told dealers this month that it will jettison some of…
Former Sears Holding Corp. CEO Eddie Lampert, a longtime key stockholder in AutoNation Inc., is again accumulating shares in the retailer after several years of cutting his stake. AutoNation, the country’s largest new-vehicle retailer, disclosed in a form filed May…
The re-escalation of the U.S.-China trade war is hitting Tesla Inc. shares hardest among major automakers, with investors betting it won’t be long before cars crossing the two countries’ borders are again subject to bigger tariffs. Tesla fell 5 percent to…
A U.S. judge on Friday said Elon Musk must face a defamation lawsuit by a British diver who said he was falsely branded a pedophile and child rapist by the chief executive of electric car company Tesla Inc. U.S. District…