Last Friday at the Texas State Fair, the Chevrolet division of General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) showed off a concept vehicle it calls “Black Ops” based on its popular Silverado pickup truck.…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockNew U.S. car sales for the month of September, including fleet sales, are expected to reach 1.17 million units, down 1.8% year-over-year from 1.89 million units sold in September 2012, according to…
courtesy of Google Inc.Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released its list of “The Most Innovative Companies of 2013.” As is the case with most of these types of lists, the conclusions are based…
Courtesy Chrysler Group LLCChrysler filed for an IPO today. It is one of the few major car companies in the world that is not public. Chrysler emerged from Chapter 11 three years…
Courtesy General Motors Co.Saying that the company “has been on a steadily improving operational and financial trajectory since it emerged from bankruptcy,” Moody’s Investors Service on Monday lifted its rating on General…
courtesy of General MotorsGeneral Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) soon will have less and less government (and taxpayer) oversight. Ongoing share sales have now reduced the government ownership to about 7.3%. This is…
Courtesy General Motors Co.U.S. automakers have a lot at stake in the battle for sales of full-size pickup trucks. Nearly 1.3 million pickups have been sold this year through the end of…
Courtesy Ford Motor Co.The largest car company in America has set an improbable goal. General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) plans to produce a poor man’s Tesla. GM hopes to capitalize on the…
Courtesy Chrysler Group LLCThe Financial Times reports that Chrysler may file for an initial public offering (IPO) as early as this week, a decision made by CEO Sergio Marchionne, who also runs…
Courtesy Toyota Motor Corp.After being third behind GM and Volkswagen in 2011, Toyota regained the top spot in 2012 as the largest auto manufacturer in the world, according to a recent report.…
Courtesy Ford Motor Co.August was a very good month for U.S. sales of cars and light trucks. Industry research firm Kelley Blue Book (KBB) now estimates that seasonally adjusted annual sales in…
Courtesy Volkswagen AGTo the amazement of many, U.S. car sales are at an annual run rate of 16 million vehicles. That comes close to matching the record years of 2006 and 2007,…
courtesy Ford Motor Co.Automakers reported August sales throughout the day today, and the month was a big one for most carmakers. Based on analysts’ estimates, the seasonally adjusted annual sales rate for…
courtesy of Toyota Motor Corp.Recalls are part of the car industry and generally are accepted by the public — unless perhaps they come in blocks of many hundreds of thousands at a time.…
ThinkstockAs retail and fast-food workers strike across 60 cities as a means to get their employers to raise wages as high as $15 an hour, most Americans support the labor union system,…
