DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. is laying off 300 workers at its Romeo Engine Plant near Detroit because of a drop in demand for its V-8 engines, a com...
The Wall Street Journal | Keith Johnson | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business
Americans appear to be concluding high energy prices are here to stay. The latest evidence: They view $4 gasoline as good news. The latest consumer-c...
Michael Graham Richard | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging, and Ford seems to be doing that by slashing SUV production and re-tooling some factories for small car production. But will it be fast enough?
Wall Street Journal | John D. Stoll | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business
DETROIT -- General Motors Corp., hoping to boost demand amid a drastic downturn in the U.S. auto industry, will offer employee discounts to nonemploye...
Dan Treul | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home
If McCain picks Mitt Romney, son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, as his running mate, Obama will almost certainly be forced to devote significant resources to maintain a close race in the state.
Peter Hoffmann | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
Fuel and fuel-cell costs -- and a lack of fueling infrastructure -- are still problematic but, with strong political will and close industry-government cooperation, are all solvable.
Dan Treul | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
"GM won't change anything until they have every operation overseas," says Danny. "This started back in the 1980s with Reagan... We know we're not going to get any help from McCain."
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — John McCain said Thursday that his proposal to suspend the gas tax for three months this summer may need to be extended lon...
Rob Kall | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
If we invest in giving consumers rebates for buying new US-made cars that have drastically improved mileage, that will help the auto manufacturers, help consumers and help our balance of trade.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
General Motors Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner plans to hold a news conference Tuesday morning to discuss actions the company is takin...
Carl Pope | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green
The auto industry thought it had ten more years of maintaining a share of the U.S. market with trucks and SUVs. It got caught napping. But it had never planned, once it woke up, to modernize its American manufacturing base.
Steve Parker | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
Take a look at the health of a country's car manufacturers and it's usually closely related to the health of that nation in general. This theory certainly holds true for America, especially at this moment in time.
AP | TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Nearly all the major automakers reported steep sales declines for June, but for General Motors at least there was consolation: Toyota,...
Jonathan Kesselman | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
Chrysler has made it possible for us to get our daily fix of information overload all within the comfort and confines of our very own one ton, turbo charged, piece of beautiful engineering.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green
Today, with Renault-Nissan signed on to build the first prototype (it was released a couple of weeks ago), it seems that Israel could be the world's first to pilot test the electric car on a national scale.
Washington Independent | Mike Lillis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business
In September of 1990, when a gallon of gas was $1.16, the Senate took up a measure that would have bumped the average fuel efficiency of new cars to 4...
Fortune | Alex Taylor III | Posted 05.14.2008 | Business
As the presidential primary season draws to a close, it is worthwhile to contemplate this: It is unusual for a single individual to hold the fate of ...
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Toyota took the global sales lead from General Motors in the first quarter, capitalizing on growth in China and Europe as GM saw its N...
AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 04.20.2008 | Business
BEIJING — Automakers issued ambitious forecasts Sunday of up to 65 percent sales growth in China's booming market this year _ a striking contras...
Laurie David | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
Why does GM keep someone around who's still stuck in the dark ages while everyone else -- including its competition -- has woken up to the threat of global warming and its impact on their customers?
AP | KELLY OLSEN | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business
SEOUL, South Korea — The head of Nissan Motor Co. said even if the United States is not in recession, its auto industry is. "We are very lucid ...
Wall Street Journal | JOHN D. STOLL | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business
General Motors Corp. gets to keep its title as the world's No. 1 auto maker for at least one more year. The Detroit auto maker said yesterday that it...
Larry Abrams | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
The government is going to have to intervene in Michigan, but as the political class is fond of saying these days, it's going to have to be "smart" intervention. Meanwhile the future is in green collar jobs.
Marvin Kitman | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business
Dumping our cars into the Cuban market would be a win-win for us. Not only would it revive the ailing Michigan auto economy, it would be one more nail in Castro's coffin.
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
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Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
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LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
AP | Dee-Ann Durbin | Posted 08.11.2008 | Business