Many of their original owners have seen the light and jumped to the Prius, but the SUVs are still on the road, and in some ways, it's even worse than ...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011
California has always represented a better future, and we seem more impatient to get there than anyone else. The examples are endless: the settlers ri...
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
Monday brought three conference calls, each about an hour, with executives from each of the Detroit Three announcing, dissecting and, most of all, spi...
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
The only other time the industry has seen a 3-million (or more) unit plunge was following the 1974 oil shortage.
New York Times | NICK BUNKLEY and BILL VLASIC | Posted 05.25.2011
Reeling from its financial problems and a collapsing S.U.V. market, General Motors on Tuesday closed its factories in this city and in Moraine, Ohio, ...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
My intern, Meg Imholt, is also the president of EcoSense, American University's environmental group... the target of GM's latest cynical marketing attempt.
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
Most Americans think you have brought this disaster upon yourselves, with inferior, irrelevant products the past 35 years.
AP | TOM KRISHER and BREE FOWLER | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — General Motors' October U.S. sales plunged 45 percent, and Ford's and Chrysler's weren't far behind, as low consumer confidence and ti...
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
The LA Auto Show is now officially the first big extravaganza on the national car calendar. It opens Friday, November 21st and runs through Sunday, November 30th at the LA Convention Center.
Los Angeles Times | Ken Bensinger | Posted 05.25.2011
"In the 1970s, '80s and '90s, carmakers all offered super-high-efficiency cars," says Eric Noble, president of the Car Lab, an auto industry research ...
Wall Street Journal | Jeff Bennett | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally said that more legislators are "in our corner" as the three U.S. auto makers prepare to...
Posted 05.25.2011
General Motors's quest to sell its Hummer division may get a bit tougher after Tuesday. That is when Dan Towbin-whose dealerships grabbed national at...
Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Now that gas is just a hair under $4 a gallon, US carmakers will go right back to making millions of SUVs, right? Not so says Ford (F), they've learne...
AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 05.25.2011
SHANGHAI, China — China is raising its sales tax on big cars to as high as 40 percent, and drastically cutting taxes on small cars, in its lates...
Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the year of cutting SUV production. If you don't believe it, ask Ford, where they're idling manufacturing plants because they can't sell the...
AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 05.25.2011
TOKYO — Japanese automaker Toyota has laid off 800 people at a plant in southwestern Japan, or about 10 percent of the plant's work force, in re...
New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 05.25.2011
Your neighbors may turn up their noses, but keeping your gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle, or buying one coming off a lease, may be a smart move. T...
The Washington Post | Ariana Eunjung Cha | Posted 05.25.2011
SONGJIANG, China -- Nodding his head to the disco music blaring out of his car's nine speakers, Zhang Linsen swings the shiny, black Hummer H2 out of ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Ashcroft claims waterboarding isn't torture, Green energy sector jobs surge, Ford offers more fuel efficient vehicles in the U.S., and the White House tries to define contraception as abortion.
Tom Schey | Posted 05.25.2011
I must have missed the appointments of Larry, Moe, and Curly as CEOs of our sad sack U.S. automobile companies.
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — Sagging demand for large sport utility vehicles has forced Ford Motor Co. to close a Michigan factory for nine weeks starting June 23....
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
Chrysler LLC may cut production further amid a steep drop in truck sales, according to a Wall Street Journal online report citing an interview with Ch...
Wall Street Journal | HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. | Posted 05.25.2011
With a couple billion Chinese, Indians and others joining the global marketplace, they will need energy, and lots of it. The price mechanism is our on...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — Automakers got hit where it hurts in February, with U.S. sales of their most profitable vehicles _ trucks, sport utilities and large s...
Vicky Shorr | Posted 05.09.2012