Tesla Motors won a victory Friday when the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration closed a probe into two fires in its Model S. But the company faces other challenges.
ThinkstockThe March forecast for new car sales calls for a year-over-year increase of 2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 15.7 million units according Kelley Blue Book (KBB). The forecast for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Howard Schultz, the ambitious founder and CEO of Starbucks, believes the coffee company can have a market value of $100 billion, about twice its current level. The goal is ambitious, but Schultz…
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…
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…
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…
courtesy of General MotorsSomeone is always to blame when there is a big blunder, a huge mistake in business, or in politics or the military. The rule for blame is that, if…
Douglas A. McIntyre 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…
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…
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.
Paul Ausick 
