In a speech to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan, broadly outlined the Japanese carmaker’s launch timetable for the latest vehicle automation technologies aimed at accelerating consumer adoption of Autonomous Drive systems.
Volkswagen will increase the amount of locally-made parts in the cars it sells in India to cut costs and lift falling sales in a competitive market dominated by cheap compacts.
Ford is introducing 25 new models by 2016 in Africa and the Middle East, where it projects the driving age population will grow 31 percent by 2023 to 1.7 billion people.
By YURI KAGEYAMA
Rocket science long dismissed as too impractical and expensive for everyday cars is getting a push into the mainstream by Toyota, the world’s top-selling automaker.
Maserati will not sell more than 75,000 vehicles globally a year to retain the exclusivity of the brand, Umberto Maria Cini, head of general overseas markets at the automaker, said on Thursday.
