Automakers Tricking It Out at the Factory
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Popularity of over-the-top decorating shows for vehicles has pumped new life into the auto customizing business, as more mainstream consumers decide they want to trick out their car or truck with fancy accessories.
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As negotiations between the U.A.W. and Chrysler get underway, the tradition of reaching one deal and applying it to all three automakers is coming under fire.
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The recovery of Ford Motor Co. -- even  with plans to cut 45,000 jobs, close 16 factories and save $5  billion -- hinges on a deceptively simple solution: it has to  build cars people want to drive, analysts said.
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The auto-parts company needs to figure out how to fix itself.
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The world's top automakers used one of the industry's biggest stages to roll out their latest cars and trucks, at the same time pledging to use the fresh offerings to attract greater numbers of new customers and expand their businesses.
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U.S. automakers, coming off a year of record concessions from labor unions, should be facing 2008 with a new lease on life as they fight Asian and European importers who now control more than half of the U.S. market.
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Thousands of consumers are lining up to buy small cars, but they are not giving up their S.U.V.âs and pickups.
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Two start-ups are coming that will lease, rather than sell batteries to consumers. Isn't this what big, bad GM did?
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Automakers displayed dozens of new models, but attention at the Paris Auto Show on Thursday was dominated by talks on the sidelines about possible new partnerships to combat the rising costs and increasingly fierce competition besetting the industry.
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Automakers weren&#39;t as generous with consumer incentives in October as they were in September, but shoppers can expect a new round of deals as manufacturers, particularly General Motors Corp.
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European carmakers bet America is ready for a radical new vehicle.
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Tech companies and automakers converge on Detroit in search of new ways to entertain American motorists.
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Chryslerâs deal with the Chinese automaker, Chery, is the first attempt by a U.S. automaker to use China as a manufacturing base for world markets.
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Sure, the UAW got back to work and Wall Street revved up GMâs stock. Now comes the carmakerâs real challenge: creating a car Americans will buy.
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NEEDHAM -- Outside the campus-like headquarters of Parametric Technology Corp. on a late summer afternoon, employees crowd around a pair of Callaway sports cars, peering under the hoods at engines that have been supercharged to race at 190 miles per hour.
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DETROIT, Jan. 14 -- Faced with the stark choice between feeding Americans' appetite for big, powerful cars and embracing new technologies that will use less fuel and emit fewer gases, the world's automakers appear intent on having it both ways.
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Production is to cease at a Midlands factory where some of the world&#39;s most iconic cars were made. Mark Tran looks at its history.