Tag: car maker

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  World's biggest vehicle market faces first annual sales fall in twenty years

  

  Car sales in China, the world's biggest vehicle market, have seen their first annual fall in twenty years. Sales fell 6% to 22.7 million units in 2018, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).

• Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  A Swede takes over as Daimler CEO and to grapple with diesel emissions cheating

  

  Daimler, the German car maker that owns Mercedes-Benz, will be run by a non-German for the first time next year. Dieter Zetsche, 65, will be replaced by Ola Kaellenius, a 49-year-old Swede, as chief executive in a succession plan announced on Wednesday.