General Motors as now linked 47 crashes to small cars with defective ignition switches while saying it hasn’t increased the number of deaths tied to the accidents.“We have done a thorough analysis of all the information available to us and at this time, based on everything we know, there have been 13 fatalities associated with the ignition switch,” Jim Cain, a company spokesman, said Sunday in a telephone interview.GM on Feb. 25 tied 31 frontal crashes to the faulty ignition switches, which can

Chevrolet plans to show off 24 concept and production vehicles at the upcoming Busan International Motor Show, including the Camaro concept car that is making its first appearance in South Korea.The car will play the part of the small yellow “Bumblebee” autobot in the next “Transformers” action film. The South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors, which makes cars under the Chevrolet mark, said Wednesday that it has set aside 2,208 square meters of convention center space to highlight it

Kia Motors’ global sales are expected to top the 30 million mark this month for the first time since it launched its first vehicle in 1962, the country’s second-largest carmaker said Monday. The carmaker, operating under the wing of Hyundai Motor Group since 2000, said accumulated sales stood at around 29.93 million units as of late April. Considering that Kia has sold an average of 260,000 vehicles per month this year, the company said it is most likely to reach the significant 30 million miles

Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s leading automaker, and its smaller affiliate Kia Motors Corp. posted a 10 percent rise in their sales in China in the first four months of the year, driven by rising demand for their small passenger cars and sport utility vehicles, industry data showed Sunday.The two automakers sold a combined 582,890 units in the neighboring country in the January-April period, up 10.1 percent from a year earlier, according to the data.Their market share also rose 0.2 percentage poi

Tesla Motors Inc., the electric-car maker planning to build the world’s largest battery plant, said its deal to supply Toyota Motor Corp. with battery packs and motors for a rechargeable crossover will conclude this year.Toyota, which owns a 2.4 percent stake in Palo Alto, California-based Tesla, said in May 2012 it would buy the company’s components for 2,600 electric RAV4 EVs over three years. Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive officer, had said he expected Toyota to extend the agreement that

Passenger-vehicle sales in China rose 13 percent last month as consumers brought forward purchases in anticipation more cities will implement ownership restrictions to fight pollution and congestion, according to an industry group.Retail deliveries of cars and multipurpose and sport-utility vehicles climbed to 1.5 million units in April, the Passenger Car Association said today in a statement. That compares with the 1.56 million median estimate of five analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.Six Chi

Hyundai Motor Co.’s U.S. operations will recover the market share it lost during the past two years as it takes the constraints off its global factory output and boosts production, the automaker’s top American executive said.“We want to go back above a 5 percent market share,” Dave Zuchowski, Hyundai’s U.S. chief executive officer, said in an interview today. “That’s a top priority for the parent company. In reality, that’s probably a two- or three-year plan.”Hyundai, which almost doubled its U.

Imported car sales in South Korea jumped 25.5 percent on-year in April, helped by better supply and promotional programs, a Korean trade association said Friday.A monthly record of 16,712 new foreign-made cars were sold in the one-month period, compared with 13,320 units a year earlier, the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association said.Annual foreign car sales hit a record high of 156,497 units in 2013. The latest tally also showed a 6.2 percent increase in car sales vis-a-vis Mar

Hyundai Motor Co.’s brand-new Genesis midsize premium sedan received the best rating in all safety categories tested by a U.S. motor safety institute, the South Korean carmaker said Thursday.The new model won the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “2014 Top Safety Pick+” award by getting the best “good” rating on all 29 safety categories checked, according to Hyundai.The award marks the first time ever that a rear-wheel drive vehicle in the class got the top honor, with the Genesis also be

GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors Co., said Thursday that it stopped taking new orders for its popular Malibu diesel midsize sedan due to supply problems.The 2014 model year car powered by a 2.0-liter motor mated to a six-speed automatic transmission has a combined fuel economy of 13.3 kilometers on a liter of fuel. So far, the carmaker has received some 3,000 orders, which exceeds its ability to make the cars and sell them to customers in a timely manner.The v