US-Italian car maker Fiat Chrysler has made an all-share merger proposal to French rival Renault as part of a new wave of consolidation in the car industry.

Time to confess. I’m a European nationalist (if such a thing is possible), if I could afford it I would buy Paul Smith over Ralph Lauren, Citroen over Chrysler, Bordeaux over Napa Valley, Cornas over Barossa.

Our series counting down the decades of Ford’s century in Ireland reaches the 1930s, and at a time when industries across the world were failing, the Ford Marina plant went into overdrive.

Ford has announced it plans to invest $1.6bn (€1.4bn) to build more small cars in Mexico, starting in 2018, triggering a fresh blast of criticism from Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) chief Sergio Marchionne reportedly said last weekend that seeking a merger with General Motors was a “high priority” and such a deal would also be the best strategic option for the Detroit rival.

With technology within modern vehicles becoming more and more dependant on the internet WIRED.com decided to show how easy it is to hack them.

The quality of vehicles made by European, Korean and US companies has improved so much in recent years that Japanese manufacturers, long the industry standard, are having trouble keeping pace.

Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, a school dropout who built Las Vegas’ biggest hotels, tried to take over Chrysler, and bought and sold MGM at a profit three times, has died aged 98.

THE LOOK of horror on many people’s faces when you tell them that the Jeep Renegade which you are driving and which also they are inquiring about is now basically a Fiat, has to be seen to be believed.

The dubious honour of the largest consumer recall in US history — which was once held by Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol drug — now belongs to the Japanese car-parts supplier, Takata.

Nick Wyatt takes us for a ride in his 1972 Dodge Custom 200 Stepside Pickup which he says is pretty quick for a heavy truck.

There has been an unseemly dash among car manufacturers to plug holes in their model line-ups.

On the outskirts of Stuttgart, the German city where Gottlieb Daimler invented the car 129 years ago, a team of engineers is envisioning a future when people won’t own or even drive their cars.

As a motoring hack — or, indeed, a critic of any kind — it is always a tad worrying when you are complimented for being too kind to any given subject. In my case, it gets very worrying indeed when car company executives pally-up to tell you that you’ve really been too kind to their brand in recent times.

THIS year has been good for the motor industry, and next year will be better.

THERE was a time not so long ago when Jeep, while regarded as an icon of motoring greatness in its homeland, was looked upon here in Europe as something of a poor relation when it came to either Japanese or European 4x4 brands.

Fiat Chrysler has announced plans to spin-off sports car maker Ferrari into a separate company.

By David Rocks and Tommaso Ebhardt

Voice-activated smartphones and dashboard infotainment systems may be making drivers even more distracted, new studies have found.

While rivals roll out new models and concept cars, Fiat has little to show at the Paris auto show besides another variant of its retro-styled 500 compact car, in what is starting to look like a worrying trend for its namesake brand.

Europe’s anemic car market rebound could be over before it has really begun. That is the fear of executives as they gather for the Paris car show on Thursday, the biggest industry event in the regional calendar.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari, is quitting to be replaced by the boss of parent group Fiat after the two men clashed over strategy and the Formula One team’s poor results.

So is it true love or just a holiday romance?

A HUGE crowd turned out last week for the official announcement by Fiat Group Automobiles Ireland of the appointment of Dan Seaman Motors as sales and after sales partner in the south of Ireland.

IT’S been a funny couple of years for Italian giant Fiat in

A few months ago, I reviewed the new Jeep Compass and I thought it was terrible. It had a decent engine and that was about it. The rest of it was a damning indictment of American car production.

New signs of life in the manufacturing sector helped push the US stock market to a record high today.

For US investors, February is starting off even rougher than January.

US vice president Joe Biden says the US government’s wager on the motor industry has paid off.

Fiat’s €3.18bn deal to gain full control of Chrysler Group sent its shares to a near two-and-a-half-year high yesterday, despite doubts over whether the Italian carmaker could use the merger to cut losses in Europe.

Fiat shares have surged after the Italian carmaker announced it had reached an agreement to gain full control of Chrysler.

Excessive salaries in the public sector in a time of austerity, are they justifiable, what is the worth of a man?

A jump in US car sales and other good news on the economy helped drive the stock market higher yesterday.

Detroit, once the symbol of American industrial might, has become the biggest US city to file for bankruptcy, its finances ravaged and its neighbourhoods hollowed out by a long, slow decline in population and car making.

Ill-judged comments on Twitter and Facebook may cost your job.

Unabashed sentimentality took the unofficial Super Bowl trophy for advertising brilliance, with draft horses and pickup trucks both putting a lump in America’s collective throat.

American Pie singer Don McLean has been fined $400 for driving his Chrysler too fast through a school zone.

Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney dive back into campaigning on Thursday after the president put politics aside to spend three days managing the federal response to the superstorm that battered the east coast of the US.

The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union said it reached a tentative deal with General Motors, leaving Chrysler as the only Detroit carmaker that has not agreed to a new labour deal.

Actor and film director Clint Eastwood today earned plenty of bad reviews for his latest performance – a bizarre, rambling endorsement of Mitt Romney.

There was more than one storyline playing out on the US stock market today.

Another dose of bad economic news threatened Barack Obama’s re-election chances, offering Republican challenger Mitt Romney fresh ammunition to exploit just four months from election day.

Carroll Shelby, the car racer and designer who built the Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford’s Mustang and Chrysler’s Viper, has died at 89.