BMW is teaming up with chipmaker Intel and camera-software company Mobileye to bring self-driving cars to the road by 2021, becoming the first major automaker to set a specific date to produce a fully autonomous vehicle.
Toyota is recalling about 3.4 million vehicles to repair separate flaws involving leaky fuel tanks and curtain air-bag inflators that may crack and injure occupants.
South Korean automakers Kia and Hyundai tightened their grip on the lead in U.S. new-vehicle quality with Kia ranked best in J.D. Powers annual survey.
Ford plans to introduce a long-range electric vehicle to compete with battery-powered models coming from Tesla and General Motors that would go 200 miles or more on a charge.
Mitsubishi said it has improperly tested the fuel economy of its cars for the past quarter century, deepening a crisis thats already wiped out half its market value.
The earthquakes will test the business continuity plans that Toyota and its Japanese peers drafted after natural disasters hit the nations east coast five years ago and disrupted operations for months.
The death toll from earthquakes that struck southern Japan rose to 42 and the economic impact began to reverberate Monday as companies surveyed damage and the potential effects on production from supply-chain disruptions.