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Volkswagen Group is launching a new four-door fastback that will replace the failed Phaeton luxury sedan as its namesake brand’s flagship model.

Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership candidate Maxime Bernier said he doesn’t support subsidies in the auto industry.

VW Group unveiled the Sedric self-driving concept car that gives a glimpse of how robo-taxis could operate in the future.

The UK government and the country’s biggest trade union are focused on securing long-term production of the Astra after PSA confirmed it would buy the Vauxhall brand from General Motors.

GM’s decision to sell its European operations doubles down on a bet that the company can win by being less global, but more profitable, in an auto industry increasingly driven by software.

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Fiat Chrysler is considering shifting manufacturing of its Panda to low-wage Poland to free capacity to build more Alfa Romeos in Italy, Bloomberg reported.

Karl-Thomas Neumann will remain at the helm of Opel/Vauxhall as the automaker revamps its lineup with PSA Group platforms in a technical convergence that will mean delaying the next Corsa subcompact car.

Karl-Thomas Neumann will remain at the helm of Opel after PSA completes a takeover of the General Motors unit, the French carmaker’s CEO Carlos Tavares said.

The new Opel/Vauxhall Corsa will be delayed as new owner PSA Group moves to shift the brand’s next-generation cars onto the French automaker’s platforms.