
Bulgaria is stepping up efforts to win more auto industry investment and build on its success in attracting a new vehicle plant for China’s Great Wall Motors.

Bulgaria is stepping up efforts to win more auto industry investment and build on its success in attracting a new vehicle plant for China’s Great Wall Motors.

To avoid tax, all Transit Connects arrived as passenger vehicles. Even without a free-trade pact, Ford Motor Co. has leaned on European models such as the Ford Fiesta and C-Max to extend its U.S. product line. But that strategy can backfire.

At the last Frankfurt auto show in 2011, the big story was not the cars, but the euro zone crisis and specifically how the continent’s car companies could survive. This year, the crisis is waning but caution remains.

General Motors will be showing this Chevrolet Camaro Hot Wheels show car, which also appeared at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show.Photo credit: Richard Truett