August auto sales reports have dampened expectations for a steady albeit moderate recovery. Automakers, which seem determined to keep production in line with sales, haven't done anything wrong. This setback is not the fault of automakers, suppliers, ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept.6

The U.S. automotive marketplace is evolving as consumers demand ever more transparency in how they research, shop and purchase vehicles. Some big dealership groups deserve credit for changing their business models to make buying a car easier for ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.30

When Ed Whitacre took the CEO job at General Motors last December, there were raised eyebrows around the industry. Whitacre, who had retired as CEO of AT&T, had spent his career in telecommunications and was not a car guy. But he quickly began ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.23

Things are never perfect. For decades, dealers who sold General Motors, Ford or Chrysler products complained that the factories pushed cars and trucks at them, which bloated inventories, inflated retail incentives and reduced dealership grosses. ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.23

It's time for the Obama administration to get serious about renegotiating portions of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, including the section on automotive trade, so the Senate will ratify the pact. The agreement has been languishing for ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.16

It is unseemly that General Motors contributed $41,000 to groups associated with lawmakers, $36,000 of it to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. While technically charitable in nature rather than political, contributions made to projects ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.16

Even with the U.S. economy struggling to gain traction and new-vehicle sales straining to reach an annualized rate of about 11.6 million units, life is decent for retailers, suppliers and automakers that have reinvented themselves. But that's no ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.9

There is more evidence that the Detroit 3 seem to be getting healthy: New interest in Detroit 3 dealerships -- especially Ford and Chevrolet stores -- by savvy big dealership groups, including publicly owned retailers. Detroit 3 dealerships ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.9

Critics who don't understand the automobile business were quick to blast General Motors Co. for planning to buy AmeriCredit Corp. The way they see it, an automaker owned in part by the government shouldn't be acquiring a publicly traded financial ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.2

In this challenging automotive world -- the North American market is struggling to gain momentum, Europe is weak and China is strong -- some automakers have found ways to make money again. Ford, Daimler, BMW and Audi are among the automakers ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug.2

The report by the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program confirms what many inside the industry have been saying for more than a year: The rush to close more than 2,200 dealerships as part of the General Motors ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | July26

It turns out you can do well by doing right. That's one of the lessons of a retail pricing trend that has taken hold in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. Several dealership groups and individual stores have made the Twin Cities a haven ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | July19

In the wake of labor unrest, Chinese factories are adding automation to control rising labor costs. It was bound to happen. China, once considered one of the lowest-cost automotive producers because of its supply of cheap labor, is becoming ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | July12

Get used to it. The U.S. auto market isn't going to rocket out of the sales trough the way some had hoped. Uncertainty in the business community, tight credit availability, unemployment that is stuck near double digits and fears of a double-dip ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | July12