Ford Motor Co. said it will idle its Louisville, Ky., truck plant for a week starting Monday, April 4. It is the Detroit automaker's first U.S. plant shutdown since the March 11 earthquake in Japan and resulting supply chain disruptions.
With some vehicle inventories becoming sparse as supply lines thin, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. is shelving some of its incentives and marketing programs. Toyota's U.S.
Toyota secured a legal victory on Friday against the landslide of unintended-acceleration claims that have dogged the company for more than a year.
Rapper Eminem's now-famous 'Imported from Detroit' Super Bowl commercial actually may have helped Chrysler Group sell some cars.
Ford reported a 16 percent sales gain in March from a year earlier to 212,296 units, boosted by sales of Ford brand cars and trucks even as its Lincoln brand continued to slide.
Ford Motor Co. raised CEO Alan Mulally's compensation 48 percent to $26.5 million for 2010 as the automaker posted its largest annual profit in more than a decade. Mulally received $1.4 million in salary, $9.45 million in bonus and $15.
General Motors' sales cooled in March after a torrid start to the year, reflecting a pullback in some enticing incentive programs. GM sold 206,621 light vehicles last month, up 10 percent from March 2010.
Also into today's episode: Editor Wes Raynal test-drives an electric-powered Rolls-Royce, Hyundai and Kia roll out clean-running concepts, and Audi extends the brand to two-wheelers.
Ford Motor Co. outsold rival General Motors in the United States last month for the second time since 1998.
JE Designs unveiled its freshly tuned 440-hp Volkswagen Touareg hybrid on Friday.
Concept gives strong clues to production car, with cleaner twin-turbo V8 set to replace V10 unit
Hyundai Motor Co. has ruled out spinning off the Genesis or Equus nameplates to create an independent premium brand along the lines of Lexus or Infiniti, partly because of the enormous cost involved and possible image damage to sibling nameplates.
Chrysler Group LLC will lose more than $10,000 on every battery-powered Fiat 500 its sells, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne says.
Toyota Motor Corp. wasn't responsible for causing a doctor's 2005 Scion to suddenly accelerate and smash into a tree, a federal jury ruled today.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s negligence caused a 2005 Scion owned by a Long Island, N.Y., doctor to unexpectedly accelerate and smash into a tree, his lawyer told jurors at the end of a trial over the accident.
Hyundai Motor Co. has ruled out spinning off the Genesis or Equus nameplates to create an independent premium brand along the lines of Lexus or Infiniti, partly because of the enormous cost involved and possible image damage to sibling nameplates.
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