General Motors ignored a request from Ford Motor Co. and ran a humorous Chevrolet truck ad during the Super Bowl that takes a slap at Ford.
When the 2011 model year came to a close at the end of September, the Detroit Three had much to congratulate itself for.
Police in Bloomington, Indiana, released a photograph Wednesday of college student Lauren Spierer on the night of her disappearance as well as images of a white pickup seen in the area.
Investigators in Washington state are looking for three young men who disappeared after leaving work together.
Looking for bright spots in auto sales so far in 2010 is like hunting for diamonds in a parking lot at Wal-Mart. You are hard pressed to find anything, and when you do, you have to examine it closely to determine its actual worth.
When automakers reported their sales for April, most industry watchers were bullish about the results.
The tabulation of U.S. auto sales for the month of February contains some big surprises. Consider:
What are people trading their clunkers in for? It depends on who you ask.
Danny Scott of Lutcher, Louisiana, said he's thrilled about the new vehicle he purchased through the "cash for clunkers" program, but watch how you talk about his baby, the 1991 Ford F-150 he had to give up.
Car expert Tom Torbjornsen answers a letter from a auto owner:
Police think it started with a dispute over an ex-girlfriend. Threats were made on social networking sites and via text messages.
There's no indication when -- or if -- the White House and congressional leaders will reach agreement on the Democrats' proposal to give troubled U.S. automakers a financial lifeline.
GM and Chrysler could get up to $15 billion in bridge loans as soon as next Monday.
Buying a used car may seem like a simple topic.
Flag-waving American loyalists were heartened to see the announcement that Toyota's January-to-March profit sank 28%. It provided evidence that even mighty Toyota can't escape the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - the deadly combination of high fuel prices, surging raw material costs, the global credit crunch and a strong yen.
The best cars you can buy in the United States are made by Honda, according to Consumer Reports. The is the second year in a row the Japanese automaker has been given the distinction.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a formal investigation into possible fires in General Motors' new full-size SUV.
Motor Trend Magazine named the full-size Toyota Tundra its Truck of the Year for 2008 on Tuesday.
General Motors looks like it's on track to win both the Car and Truck of the Year awards at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit next month.
Congress is finalizing a deal that would raise the fuel economy standards for most U.S. cars and trucks for the first time in more than 30 years.
Every year, millions of dollars' worth of vehicles end up as masses of tangled sheet metal and twisted parts in crash tests across the country. Those tests have saved millions of lives since they began six decades ago.
Negotiators for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. ended a marathon bargaining session early Saturday, more than four hours after their contract was set to expire.
General Motors of Canada will cut about 1,100 jobs at a truck plant in Ontario amid slumping pickup sales, the company said Thursday.
Two-thirds of pickups, vans and sport-utility vehicles don't provide acceptable protection against whiplash in rear-end collisions, according to tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
You don't see any on the streets of Manhattan, but almost everywhere else, the homely pickup truck is America's common carrier. GM, Ford and Chrysler sell more pickups than do they anything else, more than two million a year in good times. In addition to high volume, pickups also produce high profits because they are relatively isolated from foreign competition.
Top executives at General Motors say they are looking for additional cost savings in upcoming negotiations with the United Auto Workers union, but they cautioned analysts Thursday not to look for another round of deep job cuts or perhaps even the level of savings already seen in recent labor agreements.
General Motors kicked off the North American International Auto Show by sweeping the show's car and truck of the year awards for the first time in the company's history.
The U.S. auto industry gathers here this week for the annual auto show after a turbulent year, ahead of a year that promises to be even more momentous.
With so many automakers having problems, there's more than usual riding on the 2007 model year vehicles now starting to roll off assembly lines.
When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety first started performing its own front crash tests in the mid-1990s, about half the vehicles scored "Marginal" or "Poor."
With General Motors easing up on big rebate promotions, you might think there are no bargains to be found any more on GM cars and trucks.
FSB: Blue Bayouupdated: Thu Sep 01 2005 00:01:00
On a sweltering Saturday morning at the farmers' market in downtown Baton Rouge, Kim Chauvin stands in her booth awaiting customers. Behind her are four large buckets of shrimp, "certified Cajun" a...
You might be one of those car shoppers who is salivating over the crop of cars just sitting at your local General Motors dealership. Maybe it's the cyclone grey metallic 2005 Pontiac GTO.
General Motors Corp. is recalling more than 2 million vehicles, mostly sold in the United States, on a variety of potential safety defects, the company said Monday.
The 2005 models of the Toyota Tacoma and the Dodge Dakota received the top safety ratings in both front and side crash tests, the government reported Wednesday, while the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra got the lowest ratings.
The 4-wheel drive Chrysler Pacifica received the top ranking among all 2004 model year sport/utility vehicles that have been rated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's new, more detailed, roll-over ratings. The new rating system was announced today.
General Motors Corp. has no plans to try to answer the success of the Toyota Prius, the critically-acclaimed gas/electric hybrid car, said Robert Lutz, GM's vice chairman of product development.
Automakers around the world are reaping benefits from a fascinating metalworking technology that before now has been used mainly to produce unglamorous household items like plumbing fixtures and do...
A spectator standing next to the largest molding press ever used to make plastic parts for motor vehicles, the awesome affair shown at right that's 85 feet long and as wide as two diesel locomotive...
When the global financial panic struck in August, New Yorkers quickly felt the pain. As deals collapsed, investment bankers saw their year-end bonuses vaporize, and corporate lawyers began writing ...
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