Volkswagen and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp are to invest a combined US$278m in a Shanghai plant to make 1.4- and 1.6- litre engines, reported Bloomberg. Operations in the 180,000-units... Read more

Toyota plans to start making about 300,000 passenger car engines a year in a US$270m Guangzhou-based factory, said Nikkei. The engines, to be made in the 70 per cent foreign- owned venture w... Read more

US car giant Ford said it would increase its investment in China by US$1bn to US$1.5bn over the next few years to expand output seven-fold in the world's fastest-growing car market. It a... Read more

mini-car design from a unit of General Motors. SAIC is GM's main China joint venture partner in a rapidly expanding market, reported the Financial Times. The sale could open the way for... Read more

Foreign and domestic carmakers in China sold 52 percent more locally made cars in September than a year earlier as price cuts and rising incomes led to higher demand. The China Association o... Read more