Cars
  • How Automakers Are Propping Up Used Car Prices

    By Nick Carey, Reuters

    Two lanes apart at a noisy, fast-paced auto auction near Detroit, two vehicles show why major U.S. automakers have a problem with used cars. In one lane of the Manheim auction facility, a black 2015...

  • FILE PHOTO --  A Tesla Model X is photographed alongside a Model S at a Tesla electric car dealership in Sydney

    In the Electric Car Market, Tesla's Not The Only Game in Town

    By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.com

    Volvo became the first major auto company to announce the phase out of the internal-combustion engine from its lineup. The Chinese-owned Swedish car company announced on July 5 that every car it...

  • FILE PHOTO: Volvo logo is seen at the 2017 New York International Auto Show in New York

    Here’s the Strategy Behind Volvo’s Big Move Into Electric Cars

    By Niklas Pollard, Reuters

    All Volvo car models launched after 2019 will be electric or hybrids, making it the first major traditional automaker to set a date for phasing out vehicles powered solely by the internal combustion...

  • An overall view of the assembly line where the BMW X4 is made at the BMW manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina March 28, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Keane

    Bad News for Automakers: The Average US Household Can't Afford a New Car

    By Sarah O'Brien, CNBC

    As wages stagnate and the cost of living continues to rise, paying for a new car is a challenge for consumers, according to a new study. The report by Bankrate.com shows that in all but one of the 25...

  • Assembly workers work on the underside of 2015 Ford Mustang vehicles on the production line at the Ford Motor Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, August 20, 2015.  REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

    Why Your Next Ford Could Be Made in China

    By Paul Lienert and David Shepardson, Reuters

    Ford Motor Co ( F.N ) said Tuesday it will move some production of its Focus small car to China and import the vehicles to the United States in a long-term bet on low oil prices and stable U.S.-China...

  • GM Engineers on the Hotseat in Recall Probe

    By Richard Cowan, Reuters

    Lawmakers investigating General Motors' slow recall of 2.6 million cars are zeroing in on engineers and others who may have been aware of problems with ignition switches linked to at least 13 deaths...

  • NHTSA’s GM Fine Is a Flea Bite on an Elephant

    The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration will fine General Motors $7,000 per day until it gets answers in ignition switch recall case. GM CEO Mary Barra earns that much in about an...

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    NHTSA to Fine GM $7,000 a Day Until it Gets Some Answers

    By Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post

    Federal auto safety regulators Tuesday said General Motors is in violation of a special order demanding answers to an exhaustive list of questions about its slow recall of cars with faulty ignition...

  • GM Faced With Yet Another Faulty Airbag Issue

    By Eric Beech, Reuters

    General Motors, which has recalled 2.6 million cars for faulty ignition switches that caused air bags to deactivate, may also have a defect in air bags in 2003 to 2010 Chevrolet Impalas, an auto...

  • Saturday Night Live Takes GM’s Barra to the Woodshed

    She of course had little choice but to appear, but General Motors CEO Mary T. Barra’s two days of often clumsy and fuzzy congressional testimony last week on GM’s recall of 2.6 million Chevrolet...