
Skoda is counting on new models and dealership face-lifts to turn around sales in China this year and help parent Volkswagen Group become the world’s biggest carmaker.

Skoda is counting on new models and dealership face-lifts to turn around sales in China this year and help parent Volkswagen Group become the world’s biggest carmaker.

Volkswagen outsold General Motors in China in the first half of the year, keeping it on track to extend its reign as the best-selling foreign car company in the world’s biggest vehicle market.

Nissan has priced its new Pulsar compact hatchback to undercut equivalent versions of the Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf, the segment’s top-selling models.

By ERIK SCHELZIG
United Auto Workers leaders said Thursday they have reached a “consensus” with Volkswagen and expect the German automaker to recognize the union if they sign up enough workers at a new local for the company’s assembly plant in Tennessee.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it is investigating steering problems in about 500,000 Ford cars.