Ford will start shipping its first electric passenger car to dealers this weekend, people familiar with the matter said. About 350 Focus Electric cars will be sent to 67 dealers in California, New Jersey and New York over the next couple weeks.

Not long after announcing that it will stop advertising on Facebook, General Motors said Friday it would not be a sponsor in the Super Bowl in 2013 either. What's going on here?

Car sales that are running at the fastest pace in four years are poised to reverberate through the world's largest economy as a spillover into production, profits and jobs for Americans may be starting.

Federal safety regulators are investigating a Texas garage fire that destroyed a Fisker Karma, a $103,000 plug-in electric vehicle.

General Motors will not advertise in the upcoming Super Bowl, the company announced today in another sign that it's shaking up its marketing strategy just days after it said it would no longer pay for advertising on Facebook.

Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week.

Government and industry leaders today gathered in Washington, D.C. for a technical workshop hosted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to discuss a wide breadth of safety and regulatory issues pertaining to electrical vehicles.

Toyota, continuing to flex its post-earthquake manufacturing muscle this year, plans to invest about $80 million to expand its Huntsville, Ala., engine plant to build more V-6 engines for the United States.

Billionaire Warren Buffett sought to buy Residential Capital from Ally Financial before the government-owned company put the home lender in bankruptcy, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Brazil is considering measures to facilitate new car loans and bolster local automakers, newspapers reported today, after slowing vehicle sales pushed auto inventories to their highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis.

Although not generally regarded as part of Europe, Russia and Turkey are crucial "European" markets for many automakers because they include sales from the two markets in their overall results for the region.

Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne's plan to improve slow sales of the Fiat and Lancia brands in Europe through rebadged Chrysler models is getting mixed results.

BMW is considering new production sites around the world, including eastern Europe, according to media reports on Friday. But a BMW spokesman told Automotive News Europe today that the company has no plans add a new factory in Europe.

BMW is considering new production sites around the world, including eastern Europe, according to media reports on Friday. But a BMW spokesman told Automotive News Europe today that the company has no plans add a new factory in Europe.

Volkswagen of America, riding a 38 percent increase in United States sales this year, has hired Kevin Mayer from General Motors to steer VW brand marketing.

Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, said on Friday its net profit more than doubled in 2011 to 6.7 billion rubles (about $215.8 million). The maker of Russia's best-selling Lada cars said that its revenue grew 27 percent to 175.

Chery has applied for government permission to establish a joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover in China after the two companies signed an agreement in March to cooperate on production.

Chinese car dealers are struggling with a rising number of unsold cars that threaten to deepen price cuts, according to the nation's biggest automobile dealers' association.

Strong demand for premium and near-premium cars helped BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Citroen buck the downward trend in European new-car sales in April.

Germany's Continental plans to hire 5,000 more people in China by year end, boosting its work force in the country to 21,000. The new hires will be mainly in engineering and manufacturing, the supplier said in a statement.