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Byline: Peter Sigal Toyota has quietly become the second-bestselling brand in Europe the past two years. It has outpaced rivals with a commitment to hybrid technology -- while others invested [...]

Byline: Nick Gibbs Chip companies are waging a multibillion-dollar battle over who will deliver the intelligence inside tomorrow's smart-thinking, autonomous-capable, software-defined car. Qualcomm, Nvidia and Intel's Mobileye are vying for [...]

Byline: Larry P. Vellequette If there's one place where Volkswagen lags -- pun intended -- it's speed to market. And nobody knows that better than VW's U.S. dealers. Need a [...]

Byline: Jesse Snyder Call it the curse of 10 million. Each of the three automakers battling for global sales leadership has reached for the 10 million-vehicle mark. Each took a [...]

Japanese brands ramped up market share in the United States last year, while Europeans lost share as a group thanks to Volkswagen, and the Koreans gave up ground because of [...]

Europe's auto sales are in the pits, but European brands are going gangbusters in the United States. They achieved a one-month record of 11.1 percent of the market in October, [...]

Byline: Yang Jian General Motors captured 9.4 percent of China's passenger vehicle market in the first 11 months of 2010, up from 9 percent in 2009. But the U.S. automaker [...]

Byline: Staff report European brands captured nearly 10 percent of US new-car sales in October. US unit sales fell 31.9 percent last month, but Europe's 17 brands were down just [...]

European brands ventured into uncharted territory in America last month approaching 10 percent of the market. Industrywide sales plunged 31.9 percent in October, but Europe's 17 brands were down just [...]

Byline: Sylviane de Saint-Seine Volkswagen performed markedly better than other automakers in the fourth quarter of 2006, buoyed by corporate developments and an improved business outlook. Shareholder returns for Europe's [...]

Byline: Jason Stein General Motors Europe doesn't just expect a solid sales year out of its new Opel/Vauxhall Corsa in 2007. In the key German market, it expects the small [...]

Byline: Richard Feast Volkswagen appears certain to reclaim the title of western Europe's best selling brand from Renault this year, with few selling days left. Volkswagen outsold Renault by almost [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle Paced by an 8.2 percent increase in long-stagnant Germany in June, European car sales grew 4.5 percent for the month compared with the same period in 2004 [...]

Renault Espace/Grand Espace The Renault Espace/Grand Espace was western Europe's top-selling large minivan last year despite an 18.8% sales decline to 60,940 units compared with 2003. Car buyers in France, [...]

Volkswagen is launching a marketing campaign to build brand identity among Chinese consumers. Low brand recognition remains a problem for VW, even though it has built cars in China for [...]

New-car sales growth slowed to 5 percent in the second quarter in nine central European countries after a stronger first quarter. But sales for the first half still rose to [...]

Volkswagen's early entry into the Chinese auto market was a coup 19 years ago, but the terms of that deal are becoming a curse. VW's once-dominant market share has slipped [...]

Byline: James B. Treece, Alysha Webb Upstart General Motors boldly is declaring that it wants to displace Volkswagen AG as the leader in China. 'We believe GM can ultimately claim [...]

Volkswagen group is close to a decision to build a new assembly plant in China, according to company sources. VW needs the capacity to maintain its commanding share in the [...]

2001 Western Europe pro forma market share if combining GM, Fiat Auto and Daewoo No. 1: GM, 21.2% (3.14 million units) No. 2: VW Group, 18.9% (2.7 million [...]

Together, GM Europe, Fiat and Daewoo would overtake Volkswagen Group as the No. 1 vehicle seller in Western Europe. (See box at right.) ``We are No. 1 globally, but with [...]

Automotive News 3/1/71 DETROIT - Volkswagen wound up in fifth place in the U.S. market in 1970 as imported vehicles locked up their best year in history. In car sales, [...]

Automotive News 1/12/76 DETROIT - Volkswagen last year slipped from the No. 1 import sales slot it had held for two decades. Both Toyota and Datsun beat VW in car [...]

Ten years ago, Volkswagen and Fiat were forming a new Big 2 in Europe. But things changed dramatically in the 1990s. The two groups ran a close one-two in European [...]

New vehicle sales in Europe for 1992 were essentially the same as in 1991 due to a massive turnaround in the 4th qtr in the UK, Germany and France. The final total stood at 13.45 million units, higher than the 13 million predicted by industry analysts. Dec 1992 saw tremendous increases in sales due to consumer expectations of price increases in 1993, tax increases in some countries and large discounts on non-catalyst-equipped cars. Volkswagen AG remained the sales leader with sales of 2.3 million units and a 17.3% market share.

General Motors is not in any immediate danger of losing its crown as the world's largest automaker. But Ford Motor Co. is inching closer, even though President Jac Nasser says [...]