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Japanese airbag supplier Takata has enlisted restructuring lawyers at law firm Weil Gotshal and Manges LLP amid global recalls covering millions of vehicles, The Wall Street Journal reported today, citing people familiar with the matter.

The director of the Google self-driving car project and auto industry executives will testify before Congress next week on efforts to develop safe and effective autonomous cars.

A little-known Chinese company has seized on the unprecedented global airbag crisis surrounding Japan’s Takata Corp., buying a small American manufacturer in a bet that a shakeup of an oligarchic industry is under way.

Luxury carmaker Porsche, a division of Volkswagen AG, said today it would suspend tennis player Maria Sharapova as its brand ambassador in light of her admission that she failed a doping test.

Automakers, facing stiff fines for lackluster recall completion rates, are going to new lengths to reach owners of the millions of cars with known safety defects that remain on the road.

The latest Cadillac spot to make our viral video rankings features an actual car for just three seconds.

Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne’s holdings in the companies he runs are worth $232 million at recent share prices, making him more invested in his employers than fellow auto bosses, according to Bloomberg.

Houston’s Mac Haik group wants the industry to copy its successful technician apprenticeship program, and end the poaching that plagues dealerships and drives up costs.

The parts department at Brighton Ford includes a 150-square-foot convenience store for employees and customers, similar to that found on any city corner. The foot and beverages are a profit center for the parts department, and keep employees on site.