Will Nissan Recall Woes Mirror GM’s Recall?
Nissan Motor Co.Just when Nissan was making some headway with new car sales, the company has begun a voluntary recall program of nearly a million 2013 and 2014 Altimas, Leafs, Pathfinders and Sentras. The…
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Two weeks after being shut out of New Jersey, Tesla Motors has saved its sales business in Ohio. Tesla gets to keep its existing stores in Columbus and Cincinnati and can open a third…
Analyst vs. Perception: Is Tesla Fully Valued?
Tesla Motors is without a doubt the most exciting U.S. automobile manufacturing story of the past couple of decades. The real question to ask is how much being able to tell that story is…
Green Bonds Now Out for Auto Industry Financing
ThinkstockCitigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Toyota Motors Corp. (NYSE: TM) are said to be making history with the first “green bond” of asset-backed securities in the auto industry. Green bonds are securities or contracts…
Jaguar, Land Rover, Cadillac Among Least Fuel-Efficient Cars
courtesy of Chrysler GroupWith gas prices rising to their highest levels in months, American buyers of cars, SUVs and pickups may become more fuel-efficiency-conscious as they shop for new cars. Some of the makers…
Car Companies Offer Aggressive March Discounts
courtesy of Fiat SpACar companies continue to have high levels of vehicles in inventory, particularly at their dealer locations. This, as well as worry that the economic recovery may have lost steam, have led…
Tesla Gets Legislative Support for Sales in Arizona
Through a quirky legislative rule, a committee of the Arizona State Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would allow electric car maker Tesla Motors to sell its vehicles directly without having a distributor…
GM Debuts 3-Cylinder Engines — Go-Karts for Freeways!
Ford Motor Co.General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced on Wednesday that it plans to have annual production of its Ecotec small-displacement engines ramped up to 2.5 million a year by 2017. How small? Well,…
BMW CEO: We’ll Be Leading Premium Car Maker Again in 2014
BMW reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results Wednesday morning. The maker of luxury, ultra-luxury and Mini cars reported that it sold 1.96 million vehicles in 2013, up 6.4% compared with the prior year.
Toyota, Justice Dept. Reach $1 Billion Settlement: CNN
A Tuesday evening report from CNN cites an anonymous source who said that the U.S. Department of Justice and Toyota have reached a settlement in the criminal investigation of the sudden acceleration of Toyota…
Will Ford Sell Cars for Tesla?
courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) will need to adopt some kind of a local dealership network in the United States if it is going to sell more than tens of thousands…
Goldman Sachs Sets Huge Range for Tesla
Goldman Sachs analyst Patrick Archambault takes a look at Tesla's potential as a truly disruptive force over the long run and concludes the shares could -- and we emphasize could -- rise a lot,…
GM Sales in Europe Jump Higher
After years of trouble in Europe, General Motors has finally gotten some relief as sales of its cars and light truck rose in the region during February. It is better than the reverses GM…
Manufacturers Have Recalled Almost 4 Million Cars in the Past Month!
General Motors announced new recalls of 1.5 million cars on Monday, including SUVs, vans and Cadillacs, for defective airbags, brake parts and other problems.That was dded to the 1.6 million small cars that GM…
New Problems, New Recalls Add Up to $300 Million First-Quarter Charge for GM
Just when investors in General Motors thought they might have seen the last of automobile recalls for a while, the company announced Monday that it is recalling an additional 1.55 million vehicles.