The redesigned Smart ForTwo and ForFour minicars will share up to 70 percent of their components with the redesigned Renault Twingo subcompact unveiled at the auto show here, but they will bear no resemblance to the new Twingo.
The Smart models will be even shorter than the Twingo, and will have the traditional Smart B-pillar, said Annette Winkler, head of Smart worldwide.
General Motors named a new vehicle safety chief Tuesday in response to a growing scandal over its failure to react to an ignition switch defect linked to 12 deaths.
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen’s supervisory board unanimously backed ex-Airbus Group CEO Louis Gallois to succeed Thierry Peugeot as chairman, a person familiar with the matter said.
Thierry and his cousin Robert will remain on the board to take the founding family’s two seats, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the decision has not yet been announced.
Porsche AG will swap out the engine on the racing version of the 911 sports car after the German automaker took the rare step of telling customers to stop driving the model because the vehicle could catch fire.
Volkswagen is shaking up its European production, adding a $1.1 billion euro van plant in Poland and rearranging Porsche Panamera and VW Tiguan output.
