(October 6, 2011) MONTVALE, N.J. — Mercedes-Benz has reported September sales of 23,897 vehicles, a 15.6 percent improvement over September 2010 (20,666) and the company's highest September volume on record. 

On a year-to-date basis, the 183,711 vehicles sold represent an 11.1 percent increase over the 165,355 vehicles sold during the same period last year. 

(October 5, 2011) DETROIT – Your car sitting idle. Perhaps your unused vehicle can put some cash in your pocket. General Motors is betting on it.

GM and RelayRides, the world’s first peer-to-peer carsharing marketplace, today announced an exclusive relationship that will allow millions of GM vehicle owners to leverage the OnStar system to rent out their idle cars through the RelayRides marketplace.

(October 5, 2011) COSTA MESA, Calif. — Hyundai Motor America has begun disclosing both its sales-weighted Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) results and its average window-label fuel economy results. Hyundai is the first automaker to disclose both of these important fuel economy data points.

“At the beginning of the year, we began reporting monthly sales-weighted Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) results, to allow journalists, policy-makers, and consumers the ability to judge our progress against the evolving CAFE standards,” said John Krafcik, Hyundai Motor America’s president and CEO.

(October 4, 2011) DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford and the United Auto Workers union (UAW) have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year labor contract covering approximately 41,000 UAW-represented employees in the United States.
 
The agreement — which is subject to ratification by UAW members — calls for 12,000 hourly jobs to be added in Ford’s U.S. manufacturing facilities through the term of the contract in 2015.