German auto maker BMW AG is gearing up for a major expansion of its U.S. plant in Spartanburg, S.C., as it attempts to zoom away from its luxury–car rivals over the next several years, people familiar with the matter said. The U.S. expansion plan is …

It is also focused on ramping up the development of newer vehicles like the upcoming Model X crossover – a seven-seat luxury family car – so that it is launched on schedule this year. It is also working on the Model E, which will directly compete with …

Will this be the decade when more buyers shift towards automatic transmissions in cars? The 1990s was when air-conditioners in cars were no longer considered a luxury and became a necessity. The 2000s saw power steering becoming the norm in cars.

Why did it weigh so much? Well, like an E-type, it was a welded-up monocoque sectional unibody, so that's not an answer in itself – indeed, it should/could have weighed a lot less. However, we're discussing a luxury car, and one that needed the body …

Barcelona/New Delhi: BMW India ranked highest in sales and customer satisfaction in luxury car segment in both the J.D. Power Asia Pacific Sales Satisfaction Index Study 2013 and the J.D. Power Asia Pacific Customer Service Index Study 2013. This was …

European automobile companies, namely BMW, Jaguar, Renault and Volkswagen, may slash the prices of their luxury car models under Free Trade Agreement (FTA) policies. This will automatically make these cars cheaper in comparison to imported …

Volvo has formed a joint venture with SM Kannappa Automobiles to form a new company, Prakash Bus Corp that will manufacture UD brand of buses from a facility near Kolar, about 70 kilometre from Bangalore. "By the year 2020, we see huge growth in the …

With all of those added bells and whistles, the 4 Series is a very nice, luxurious, and impressive car, but it never feels special. You can assign it a larger number, but at the end of the day the 435i is still mostly a 3 Series. If you happen to like …

First, such reductions are virtually impossible unless we restrict our activities to those prevalent in the agricultural age before the invention of automobiles and manufacturing, and before Rhode Islanders enjoyed the luxury of electricity and natural …