Insurance companies have long known that women are safer drivers than men - but now it seems attitudes have caught up with reality, and Germans are more likely to trust a woman in a car than a man.
German luxury carmaker BMW has issued a recall of 220,000 vehicles because of a defect in Japanese-made airbags installed over a decade ago, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
German men have more points on their driving licences than women, largely due to drink driving, but according to figures released on Monday both genders have totted up the most points from the same offence – speeding.
Tens of thousands of employees from Germany's metalworking sector and electrical industry downed tools on Thursday on the first day of a warning strike over pay, a union said.
Of all things the German government could be short of, tax collectors is not the one most people would expect - yet it is struggling to fill 1,000 specialist jobs after a system overhaul left it responsible for gathering car tax.
China has now become the focus of the automobile world and the country's car preferences are affecting what models key German carmakers offer, <i>Stern</i> magazine reported on Sunday.
Volkswagen, Europe's biggest carmaker, said Thursday that it planned to open seven more factories in China, as it confirmed record net profits for 2012 and voiced optimism for next year.
A top executive of US auto giant General Motors has warned that the Bochum plant of loss-making Opel in Germany could be closed two years early if management and unions do not agree a turnaround plan soon.
Volkswagen posted record-breaking global sales in 2012, up 11 percent at 9.07 million vehicles, but the ambitious German automaker continues to trail Japanese rival Toyota.
German auto giant Daimler said on Wednesday it would refuse to comply with new EU refrigerant fluid standards after explosions during crash tests on its cars using the new kind.
Germany's 1.5 million truck drivers should start to keep a 'log book' for the tax office of how often and for how long they go to the toilet, it was reported recently.
Opel, the loss-making German arm of US auto giant General Motors, said on Monday it would halt auto production at its Bochum plant in 2016 but pledged to keep it running as a parts distribution centre.
US auto giant General Motors has decided to stop auto manufacturing at its Opel plant in Bochum, western Germany, after 2016, the head of the works committee said on Friday, a move that could mean the plant will close.
An 11-year-old German boy disappeared on Tuesday after stealing his foster parents' minivan and driving nearly 100 kilometres to Hamburg, it was reported on Wednesday after police found the vehicle.
Six people were killed and two injured on Sunday morning in a four-car autobahn pile-up in southern Germany. Police said the crash was probably caused by a car going the wrong direction.
Nuremberg council is changing dozens of its vehicle number plates that start with the letters NSU - the name of a murderous neo-Nazi terror gang. Anyone with the unfortunate registration can change theirs free of change.
Most German car parks are too expensive, badly lit or are difficult to drive into, motoring association ADAC said on Monday after a carrying out a nationwide survey.
Hundreds of Belgian Ford employees targeted a German factory on Wednesday in a border-hopping protest at the closure of their factory and looming unemployment. Some stormed the building but were later persuaded to leave.
A 45-year-old German woman has won a national car parking championship, beating four men and three other women to claim the crown, it was announced on Monday.
Five people died early Sunday morning after a car travelling the wrong way up a motorway in western Germany hit another vehicle head-on. Police said on Sunday that getting into the wreckage was proving difficult.
Five German doctors died and 14 were injured in China when their bus slammed into a container truck and caught fire near Beijing, state media reported on Monday. Three came from Bavaria, two from Baden-Württemberg.
Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest auto maker, has rejected claims that special offers it is making to accelerate sales of the new Golf cars could depress prices across the industry.
