Mercedes Benz plans to produce 2,500 passenger cars per annum in Iran and preliminary assembly work has been underway since May 9, the executive director of Top Khodro Company said here on Tuesday.
“About 1,000 E350 models are going to be available to the market by yearend, and the first cars are to roll off the […]

Teri Wiss says she’s neither a car person nor a computer person. Yet her new car, a 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid, well, let her tell you: “It’s almost more of a computer than a car. Everything about this car is different than what I’m used to.”
Wiss, an occupational therapist who works in Cupertino, was one […]

India’s largest two-wheeler maker Hero Honda Motors Ltd reported 19.8% growth in its 2005-06 net profit to Rs 971.34 crore. Net sales for the financial year grew 17.4% to Rs 12,481 crore. Operating margins decreased marginally to 15.70% during Q4, down 50 basis points compared with the corresponding quarter.
Hero Honda is also planning to launch […]

Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that it planned to begin a global voluntary recall of nearly 320,000 of its hot-selling Prius gasoline-electric hybrid sedans to repair a potentially faulty steering system component.
The campaign will involve about 170,000 vehicles sold in the United States, said spokesman Sam Butto of the Japanese automaker’s Torrance-based U.S. sales unit. […]

Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it will repair the Fit subcompact, the Stream minivan and seven other models, produced between April 2001 and March 2002, due to malfunctioning key interlock systems.
Honda said 423,344 automatic vehicles are subject to the repairs. Their ignition keys can be removed even when the shift lever is not in the […]