Hyundai, and its sister brand Kia, have had the hottest selling cars in the American market since the recession began. The rational for this is that the South Korean company ... Read Full Story »
Toyota (NYSE: TM) announced it would move more aggressively into emerging markets. The WSJ reports that Toyota, Japan's biggest car maker by volume, plans to sell more than 1 million ... Read Full Story »
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, more Americans aged five to 34 are killed in motor vehicle crashes than from any other single cause. Despite this disturbing fact, ... Read Full Story »
Fiat and Mazda will build a small convertible together. Fiat is the controlling shareholder of Chrysler. The deal is an example of how large car companies which face slow ... Read Full Story »
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is now considered 'investment grade' at Moody's after a late-day upgrade. Moody's Investors Service raised the senior unsecured ratings of Ford to Baa3 from Ba2, which ... Read Full Story »
General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) may soon get to be an 'investment grade' company on its credit ratings. While this might not mean much on the equity level of the company, ... Read Full Story »
The cost of a luxury automobile does not end with its purchase price -- it begins there. The true ownership costs are often much more than what customers perceive, after ... Read Full Story »
Recreational vehicle maker Winnebago Industries Inc. (NYSE: WGO) said this morning that the company received an offer from private equity firm North Street Capital L.P. to acquire all of Winnebago’s ... Read Full Story »
The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) announced that April sales of cars and light trucks in the region were “6.9% less than in the same month of 2011.” That means only 1,017,912 ... Read Full Story »
In a glancing blow to Facebook Inc.’s coming IPO, one the of the three largest US advertisers in all media, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), will stop advertising on the ... Read Full Story »
Over the past 12 months, the best performing car maker stock is -- drum roll -- Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA). Shares in the maker of electric vehicles (EVs) are ... Read Full Story »
The luxury car market around the world continues to explode as the relatively small portion of the globe’s population which is rich consumer at extraordinary levels. VW reports that ... Read Full Story »
After a three-year period in which Toyota (NYSE: TM) recalled more than eight million cars worldwide for problems that included faulty accelerators, as well as natural disasters in Japan and ... Read Full Story »
Results from Europe hurt GM (NYSE: GM) sales in the latest quarter, hurting numbers as it did with Ford (NYSE: F) GM's Opel division has been a problem for some ... Read Full Story »
April car sales data are out, and they are not cause for celebration. Though sales are up 2% overall from last April, they have cooled somewhat since the February and March ... Read Full Story »