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Chrysler says glitches with the software that runs its cars and trucks caused the recent production delays that undercut the company’s profits, and the automaker says it is taking steps to improve quality and ensure that its vehicles arrive problem-free.
Ford Motor Co. will shed 1,200 jobs when it ends auto manufacturing in Australia in 2016, but that's not the only casualty of Ford's pending exit.
Ford Motor Co. will stop manufacturing vehicles in Australia in 2016, a continent where the Dearborn automaker has produced automobiles for about nine decades.
Washington — Electric vehicle start-up Tesla Motors Inc. sparked a war of words with Chrysler Group LLC on Wednesday after Tesla said it was the "only American car company to have fully repaid the government."
Washington — One of the longest serving auto industry lobbyists said late Tuesday he will retire early next year.
Automobiles with four-cylinder engines already comprise more than half of U.S. new-vehicle sales, and that number could grow to two-thirds by the end of the decade, according to projections by Ford Motor Co.
Hickory Corners — A new Ford dealership opened up in southwestern Michigan.
A Birmingham entrepreneur wants to turn more than 80 acres of vacant land once owned by General Motors Co. in Pontiac into a destination for car enthusiasts that would include more than 300 “car condominiums” to house their valuable, classic and exotic cars.
On an extended drive-about from Australia, Brendan Edgerton parked his $150 right-hand drive 1989 Holden Commodore at the entrance to the Henry Ford Museum. He had come to see Tucker automobile #16, one of the world’s 47 existing Tuckers built by automotive dreamer Preston Tucker in 1948.
Tesla Motors Inc., the electric-car maker run by Elon Musk, increased the size of its equity and debt offerings by 30 percent to as much as $1.08 billion to repay its U.S. loan and build up cash reserves.
Ford Motor Co. plans to free up much-needed production capacity in North America by shifting manufacturing of its Fiesta subcompact car to Thailand in 2016, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.
Washington — The top U.S. auto safety regulator said the agency would take action to ensure self-driving cars electronically connected to traffic networks and to each other can’t be hacked.
Washington — Two of 13 small SUVs passed new tougher frontal crash tests from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Elon Musk was fresh off the sale of PayPal and starting another business, commercial rocket service Space Exploration Technologies Corp., when he met kindred spirit JB Straubel. Their shared belief that consumer electronics advances could be applied to more earthly modes of transport is a cornerstone of Tesla Motors Inc.
Washington — The Obama administration isn't backing the National Transportation Safety Board's call to drop the legal limit for drunken driving from 0.08 ...
Washington — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a new No. 2 official who has often sparred with automakers.
The number of electric-vehicle charging stations is expected to grow substantially by the end of the decade, according to a new report compiled by IMS Research.
Ford Motor Co.'s shift to beef up car offerings that appeal to coastal markets is accelerating ahead of schedule.
Washington - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a new No. 2 official who has often sparred with automakers.
Ford Motor Co. will up its presence in the expanding Russian market with a new $274 million engine plant, the first passenger-car engine plant in the region.
Washington — A National Transportation Safety Board recommendation to lower the legal limit on drunken driving would save hundreds of lives annually, the NTSB ...
Washington — Ally Financial Inc. reached a deal Tuesday that should allow its troubled mortgage unit Residential Capital LLC to complete its bankruptcy ...
For the first time in more than a decade, the biggest U.S. automakers had a majority of category winners in a survey of vehicle quality, taking or tying in 12 ...
Detroit — Three Ohio drivers are suing Ford Motor Co., claiming the company's six-cylinder EcoBoost engine is defective.
New fuel-efficient cars and luxury-loaded pickups are driving the U.S. auto industry back from the depths of the Great Recession. Sales are up, profits are ...
Sao Paulo — The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of ...
Herat, Afghanistan — They sit in the sun harboring their lost histories, their forgotten dreams, their traces of funerals, graduations and stolen kisses. ...
Washington — The founder of North America’s largest auto supplier says the struggling European auto industry will need to get smaller to survive.
Washington — A deal may be near to resolve claims from creditors of Ally Financial’s bankrupt mortgage unit Residential Capital LLC that could allow for a ...
Washington -- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Saturday the agency is opening a preliminary investigation into 340,000 Ford trucks over ...
The exodus from Detroit continues, the Census Bureau says, more feet-on-the-ground evidence that the city's chronic mismanagement is perpetuating a... - 05/24/2013
'Calm down, dear' became a catch-phrase in Britain linked with a TV ad, and maybe the world's automotive manufacturers could take the notion on board... - 05/24/2013
As a kid did you ever stick your hand out of the car window and marvel at the way you could play with the wind? Perhaps you still do. - 05/16/2013
Neil Winton Natural gas should be the automotive fuel of the future in Europe and the U.S., but sales of vehicles which can use this power source remain stubbornly low. Despite the...
Neil Winton General Motor’s Opel-Vauxhall subsidiary in Europe finally has some good news to report. Its market share in the first four months of 2013 improved for the first time in a...
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