Toyota sold more than 4.8 million vehicles worldwide in the first half, up 2 percent from the same period a year earlier, the Japanese automaker said Wednesday.

Asian stock markets resumed their upswing Wednesday, as another fall in oil prices and a strong performance on Wall Street lifted sentiment throughout the region.

Ford Motor Co. plans to revamp some U.S. plants and bring six small vehicles to the U.S. market from overseas to meet customers' growing demand for more fuel-efficient options, a person briefed on the company's plans said Tuesday.

Ford Motor Co. is marking the 100th anniversary of the Model T, the first low-priced car that introduced motoring to the masses, at a time when Americans are cringing at the cost of filling their gas tanks and the U.S. auto industry is struggling with plant closings and layoffs.

Ford Motor Co. is marking the 100th anniversary of the Model T, the first low-priced car that introduced motoring to the masses.

General Motors Corp. said Thursday one of its Chinese joint ventures has begun exporting Chevrolet minivans to Peru, adding to global automakers' small but growing vehicle exports from China.

People want small cars that get great gas mileage. General Motors Corp. is known for making top-notch trucks and sport utility vehicles. The company's survival now hinges on the difficult task of convincing buyers that its upgraded cars are just as good as its trucks and worth some extra cash.

Despite one of the worst downturns in U.S. auto industry history, Volkswagen AG is expanding its U.S. presence and looking to grab a bigger slice of the country's market as part of its plan to become the world's No. 2 automaker.

The European car market suffered another month of heavy declines in June and its fourth drop overall this year as rapidly deteriorating economic conditions kept new car buyers from leaving the house.

THE CHANGE: Crossover vehicles, which have the hauling and seating attributes of truck-based sport utility vehicles but are more fuel-efficient because they are built on lighter car underpinnings, have seen their explosive sales growth slide into a slump.

When Ford Motor Co. came out with its new Edge crossover in 2006, the company hoped the truck-like vehicle built on a car frame would attract longtime Ford buyers trading in their inefficient sport utility vehicles.

Toyota Motor Corp plans to install solar panels on some Prius hybrids in its next remodelling, responding to growing demand for "green" cars amid record-high oil prices, a source briefed on the matter said on Monday.

New-car shoppers in California will soon see an easy-to-read label revealing a vehicle's greenhouse gas emissions.

As if gas prices, a weak economy and a strike by a major supplier weren't enough to drag down Hummer's sales, dealers are now reeling from GM comments about selling the brand.

Major automakers are expected to post steep declines in U.S. sales for May, as the spike in gasoline prices battered an industry already reeling from weak consumer confidence and tighter credit.