Expected to be announced early next year, the reforms led by CEO Takahiro Hachigo are meant to simplify the way Honda designs cars and put its engineering resources to more effective use at a time when it needs to develop cars for an electric age.

The factory in Lordstown, Ohio, and adjoining land sold for $20 million earlier this month, the Business Journal reported, citing records from the Trumbull County auditor.

VW was charged with 60 counts of breaching the Canadian Environmental Protection Act by importing vehicles that did not conform to prescribed emission standards.

Robert Lighthizer and Jared Kushner will travel to Mexico Tuesday to sign off on changes in the trade deal. And in a signal that final amendments could be in hand, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland also is reportedly traveling to Mexico.

The driver of the Tesla Model 3 told police in Connecticut that his car’s Autopilot feature had been activated and he was not facing forward.

Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor Corp. invited parts makers to bid to become suppliers for an Audi A7L they plan to build, signaling the German luxury brand is poised to add China’s largest automaker as a manufacturing partner as Audi pushes to regain share lost to Mercedes-Benz and BMW in the world’s biggest market.

Opel and French battery manufacturer Saft can move forward with a plan to build electric vehicle battery cells in Germany after the European Union approved the use of state aid for the project.

Cadillac will pilot Cadillac Live on Monday after launching the program in Canada in March. All Cadillac dealerships in Canada opted into the program. So far, 160 U.S. dealerships in the five pilot states have opted in.

AvtoVAZ said it signed an agreement to buy GM's 50 percent stake in their joint venture, which sees the two companies produce the Chevrolet Niva from a factory in Togliatti, Russia.

The indictment of former Fiat Chrysler labor chief Al Iacobelli set off a more than two-year effort by GM’s legal staff to establish a pattern of coziness between the UAW and FCA.