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The battered U.S. auto market will eventually see sales return to levels posted before the economic meltdown, but not for at least another two to three years, the chairman of German automaker Daimler AG said Thursday.
Taking a cue from house-call services like Best Buy's Geek Squad, electric carmaker Tesla Motors is launching a maintenance plan where mechanics travel to owners' homes or offices to perform repairs and tuneups.
When you think about car safety, you think brakes, air bags and seat belts. Now, you should check floor mats, too.
Luxury car sales could offer the most accurate snapshot of a U.S. auto market that languished in September due to fallout from the government's Cash for Clunkers program.
Ford Motor Co. plans to build a new assembly plant in China while Toyota Motor Co. will start selling an entry-level family car there, as the world's automakers pour more resources into the fast-growing Chinese car market amid weakness in their home countries.
General Motors Co. may extend its money-back guarantee program after the much-touted promotion wraps up in November, the company's vice chairman said Friday.
The nation's automakers are bracing for quieter showrooms and slower sales this autumn after the Cash for Clunkers program offered a big but unsustainable boost in August.
Automakers are partying, even though they know the hangover is coming.
After a lot of heartbreak, the nation's automakers aren't looking to commit.
The people who have made "cash for clunkers" such a success were fence-sitters — a Virginia family wondering whether to keep pouring money into what they called the "dog car," a Colorado couple hanging on to their Ford in case the children ever wanted it.
As dealerships and car shoppers alike wait for the Senate to decide the fate of "cash for clunkers," one question reigns: Deal or no deal?
This was one government stimulus plan that yielded quick results. Maybe too quick.
A review of fuel-economy data has changed the eligibility of 164 trade-in vehicles in the government's "cash for clunkers" program.
With a $109,000-plus sports car as its only vehicle on the market, Tesla Motors would appear to a niche player on the auto scene. Yet parties including the U.S. government and a fund in Abu Dhabi are counting on the company's electric cars to one day go mainstream.
Hyundai said Tuesday that customers in the U.S. who buy or lease its vehicles by Aug. 31 will receive a gas card that lets them buy fuel at $1.49 a gallon for a year, a promotion to win over consumers worried about volatile prices at the pump.
For Mini, the maker of sporty — if sometimes eccentric — pint-sized hatchbacks, landing at the bottom of another closely watched vehicle quality study this week is almost a point of pride.
Winnebago Industries Inc., the biggest motor home manufacturer, is scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter results on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments related to the period.
In 1973, the local newspaper in Akron, Ohio, sent a photographer to Rick Case's filling station to take pictures of his signs bearing gas prices. The Middle East oil embargo was in full swing. Gas prices were around 30 cents a gallon and rising fast.
When General Motors Corp. emerges from bankruptcy protection, it will technically be a brand new, privately held company — yet it will be more publicly owned than ever, with taxpayers holding a 60 percent stake.
More than 50 percent of General Motors Corp. bondholders said Sunday they would support a sweetened deal to swap the company's $27 billion debt for stock in a restructured, leaner GM.
Most car companies are racing to bring electric vehicles to the market. But one startup is skipping the high-tech electronics, making cars whose energy source is pulled literally out of thin air.
Honda Motor Co. overtook Toyota Motor Corp. as the top company that auto parts suppliers prefer to do business with, according to an annual survey released Monday.
Automakers are fully behind the Obama administration's new set of fuel-economy rules unveiled Tuesday. But make no mistake — these regulations will not be easy for them to meet.
Harley-Davidson Inc. is considering closing its main motorcycle assembly facility in Pennsylvania and moving production elsewhere as it aims to lower costs and cope with a sales downturn, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
With a government deadline just seven days away, Chrysler LLC is running out of time to work out deals with debtholders, its unions and a foreign partner.
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