Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) posted mediocre results for its fiscal third quarter which ended on December 31, and the nine months which ended on the same day. The world’s largest car company also increased…
US domestic vehicle sales reached a a 27-year low in 2009 when only 10.4 million units were sold. The figure for 2005 was 16.94 million, a period of unusual prosperity. In other words, the…
Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) announced it third quarter earnings and raised it full-year net income forecast to 530 billion yen from 500 billion. Honda said its optimism was based on US sales and its…
Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) announced that it will recall 1.7 million cars, most of them in Japan. The vehicles may suffer from fuel leaks. The new recall can be added to another set of…
GM (NYSE: GM) is supposed to be a badly crippled giant. Toyota (NYSE: TM) is the global car company with the most efficient manufacturing plants, the highest quality cars and the strongest balance sheet.…
The ride continues at Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI). For the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, the company reported record net sales of $9.5 billion and record income of $533 million, or…
VW wants to be the largest car company in the world. It already has strong presences in the EU, much of South American, and Asia–particularly China. The US is the one market it will…
Ford (NYSE: F) announced an all-electric version of its Focus model. The car will be sold in 2012. Ford will work with Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) to offer a 240-volt home charging station. Ford said,…
The Ford (NYSE: F) brand outsold the Toyota (NYSE: TM) brand in 2010. That crown has to be worth something. Ford makes popular, well-designed cars. Toyota’s image has been hurt by millions of recalls…
Chinese buyers are projected to have purchased up to 18 million cars in 2010, more cars than have ever been sold in one country in one year. Those cars represent a year-over-year growth rate…
Hyundai and its stablemate Kia had almost no presence in the US car market five years ago. Hyundai and Kia now have 7.8% of monthly domestic sales, higher than Nissan, and have begun to…
China displaced the US in 2009 as the world’s largest car market, and the number of Chinese auto buyers went up in 2010. Chinese buyers purchased 13.6 million vehicles in 2009 and that number…
We’ve often noted that energy efficiency is the low-hanging fruit of US efforts to reduce energy consumption, lower polluting emissions, and decrease US dependence on foreign sources of energy. One of the plums on…
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released its list of the safest cars for 2011. The “TOP SAFETY PICK” award for 2011, included 40 cars, 25 SUVs, and a minivan. The number of American…
Zipcar Inc. is closer to becoming a public company. The company’s amended S-1 filing with the SEC was filed on Friday. While we still have no pricing data, updated information has been provided about…