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Efforts to expand Tesla Motors sales were dealt a blow this week when New Jersey officials decided to ban the premium electric car manufacturer from selling directly to consumers.

Growth in Brazil's car market has screeched to a halt, but it is way too late for automakers to hit the brakes.

An efficiency study by the Rikess Group goes right to the heart of something that drives new car buyers nuts: wasted time.

The Milwaukee Business Journal's Top 25 lists this week feature dealerships in the seven-county Milwaukee area with leading new and used car sales based on state of Wisconsin registrations in 2013.

The C class accounts for about 25% of Mercedes sales, making it crucial to the automaker's plans to pass BMW and Audi for the global premium sales lead.

Electric Cars to Crack 1 percent of U.S. Market in 2014 - photo of Dean Adams Curtis courtesy Checkmate Pictures All Rights Reserved Despite stable gas prices, electric car sales in the U.S. were surprisingly robust last year, outpacing cars with internal combustion engines.

A public hearing will be held March 31 at Coquitlam city hall on the Kia West bid to move its car dealership on Lougheed Highway to United Boulevard.

The top line of the report was fine: Retail sales rose 0.3% from January, despite all the crazy weather, narrowly beating forecasts for a 0.2% gain.

Shoppers spent more on autos, clothing and furniture. The Commerce Department said Thursday that seasonally-adjusted retail sales rose 0.3 percent in February.

Group sales were up 4.7 percent in the first two months of this year at 1.47 million autos, excluding the MAN SE in production costs this year as the number of cars built on the MQB platform may almost double to 2 million in 2014 and increase to 4 million by 2016.

In an amended submission to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, GM also said it had identified an issue with the ignition switch, the central failing in the recall of more than 1.6 million cars, in 2001 preproduction testing on the Ion.

The Statewide Green Car Convoy visited Vail on Tuesday. The convoy demonstrates fuel efficient technologies in environmentally friendly vehicles that are currently available for purchase from local dealerships.

Lamborghini, one of the most luxurious sports cars in the world, is expected to open a dealership in Calgary by the end of this year as part of a group of other high-end auto sellers in a super sports car centre.

If you want to buy a Tesla in the Garden State, after April 1 you'll have to try your luck somewhere else.

Buoyed by a record year in auto industry sales in 2013, the 34th Annual Calgary International Auto and Truck Show is set to kick off another robust year for the market in both Alberta and throughout the country.

New Jersey joins Texas and Arizona as the third state to ban Tesla's sales model.

Here's an idea: instead of getting buyers interested in buying EVs, why not get the sellers keenly interested in selling them.

Car sales in India would be back on track and grow by up to 9 per cent in the current year with leading manufacturers such as Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai Motor introducing new models to expand market share, global marketing information services company JD Power said.

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New Jersey motor vehicle officials have approved a regulation that would require all new car dealers to obtain franchise agreements to receive state licenses.