Reuters: Ford Motor (NYSE: F) may kill the Mercury brand. Reuters: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is finding a flood of Asian buyers for the iPad. Reuters: Prudential plc is in talks with…
Without specifying a partner, the CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (NYSE:HMC) said yesterday that he hopes that his company can work with China to develop batteries for an all-electric vehicle .…
Reuters: The Fed will probably say it will keep rates low. Reuters: Republicans have come up with their own bank reform plan. Reuters: Wellpoint says it will stop dropping patients. Reuters: Oil…
American cars have now passed their Asian competitors in the quality race among US consumers. The new Associated Press-GfK Poll shows that “38 percent say U.S. cars are best and 33 percent prefer…
Car sales in China during March rose 63% to 1.26 million according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. US domestic vehicles sales for the same period were 1.07 million. When trucks…
The IPO filing by Tesla Motors brings into sharp relief the current battle for hearts and minds between the new electric cars and the traditional gasoline-powered vehicles. US and Japanese carmakers are…
Hyundai has been the star of the domestic car industry for over a year, as it picked up market share with its slick new cars and relatively low prices. Its status was…
Reuters: EU leaders are divided on Greece before their summit. Reuters: Changes in the health care bill will go back to the House. Reuters: China described interest rates as a “heavy-duty weapon”…
Mattel (MAT) toys had lead paint in them. Car companies from Toyota (TM) to Nissan to Honda (HMC) have recalled cars for defects, some of them dangerous. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission…
Toyota (TM) dominated the 2010 JD Power Vehicle Dependability Survey. Granted, the poll looks back over a period of a year. Power describes the methodology as “original vehicle owners were asked to report the type and…
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter…
Every car sold in America, and perhaps the rest of the world, is broken or dangerous to drive so it seems. Toyota (TM) has recalled more than eight million cars. Ford (F) says…
Reuters: China took a hard position on the value of the yuan despite US pressure. Reuters: Google’s (GOOG) ad partners in China expressed concerns about its plans. Reuters: If banking laws change,…
The Toyota brand may be much more resilient than most experts would ever have imagined. That is bad new for its primary competitors in the US market–GM, Ford (F), Chrysler, Honda (HMC),…
Car recalls have become an epidemic with the sickest patient being Toyota (TM), which has recalled 8.5 million cars this year. GM, one of the car companies with a chance to benefit from…
