9:27 am U.S. ET, Aug. 9, 2011 | UPDATED: 8/9/11 8:42 pm ET
Eleanor Josaitis, co-founder of Focus:HOPE -- a civil and human rights organization that grew to become a high-tech training hub for the auto industry -- died today of cancer. She was 79. Read More »
9:34 am U.S. ET, Aug. 4, 2011 | UPDATED: 8/4/11 1:08 pm ET
General Motors North America President Mark Reuss announced a $2,000 price tag on GM's new stop-start technology and gave a sneak peek of the coming Cadillac compact code ...
Some industry executives might be tempted to underestimate the Chinese auto industry, says Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne. That would be a mistake. Chinese automaker ...
Chrysler Group has the lowest hourly labor rate among the Detroit 3, and Ford Motor Co. the highest, an industry labor expert said Wednesday at the seminars here. ...
In the future, it won't be enough to simply buy a Ford vehicle. The manufacturer also wants customers to help market it and help explain the vehicle to other potential cu ...
Jim Farley, head of global marketing at Ford Motor Co., is trying to smooth things over with the folks at General Motors. A pre-publication version of Once Upon a Car by ...
Burned by the strong Japanese yen and stressed out over natural disasters and fuel costs, Nissan North America Inc. has a new directive to suppliers: Get closer to Nissan ...
Low-rolling-resistance tires improved vehicle fuel economy when they were introduced in the 1970s. But mileage gains came at a cost: long wet braking distances and poor h ...
Fiat's MultiAir system, introduced to the United States on the 2012 Fiat 500, uses small hydraulic pumps, along with a computer, to control the timing of each intake valv ...
The rebound of the North American automotive supply base depends on improving relationships, panelists said today here at the 2011 Management Briefing Seminars. ...
Toyota will throw off the shackles of earthquake and supplier problems later this month and run its North American plants overtime to rebuild dealer inventories. ...
Suppliers to the 2011 Volkswagen Jetta include Sulzer Friction, ABC Group, Key Safety Systems, Webasto, Automatic Spring Products, Guilford, Johnson Elect, ContiTech, TI ...
Suppliers to the 2012 Fiat 500
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 3, 2011
Suppliers to the 2012 Fiat 500 includes Mitsubishi Electric, Magneti Marelli, Freudenberg, Gentex, Henniges, Minth Group, Narmx Queretaro, Huf Huelsbeck & Fuerst, Stant, ...
Calling suppliers: Enter PACE awards
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 3, 2011
Auto suppliers have until Aug. 31 to apply for the 2012 Automotive News PACE Awards. The awards recognize innovation, technological advancement and business performance. ...
Special issue to mark a century of Chevrolet
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 3, 2011
On Oct. 31, Automotive News will publish a special issue for Chevrolet's 100th anniversary. Among the 100 stories, we'll tell the tale of the co-founders -- Billy ...
Chrysler stays with output plan
6:05 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
Despite softening industry sales this summer, Chrysler Group is sticking with its production plans for the rest of the year. Chrysler previously had forecast U.S. industr ...
Toyota shaves costs ahead of fuel-cell entry
2:45 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
Four years ahead of the launch of its first fuel-cell vehicle, Toyota Motor Corp. is shaving manufacturing costs as it attempts to reduce the cost of the vehicle. ...
Turbos zoom into the fast lane for fuel economy
9:08 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011 | UPDATED: 8/3/11 11:23 am ET
Jim Farley - head of global marketing, sales and service at Ford - is trying to smooth things over with the folks at GM. In a pre-publication excerpt from the book Once U ...
Chrysler wants suppliers to adopt its production methods
5:31 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
Chrysler Group wants to train its Tier 1 suppliers to use its production system, dubbed World Class Manufacturing. In a pilot program, five key suppliers will study the s ...
A GM chief's lesson in Chinese capitalism
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
Now that China is the world's largest auto market, it is an uncomfortable fact that China is unknown territory for many Western auto executives. At last, a study guide is ...
Automakers eye new 'cures' to cut vehicle weight
9:05 am U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
New fuel economy rules unveiled by the Obama administration last week will push the auto industry to explore more lighter materials and faster, cost-efficient ways of pre ...
OnStar prepares for global expansion
10:18 am U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
OnStar is preparing to expand its vehicle communications service in global markets after 15 years of shaping it in the North American market. The GM subsidiary intends to ...
Suppliers to the 2011 Honda Odyssey
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
Suppliers to the 2011 Honda Odyssey include Federal-Mogul, Van-Rob, Weastec, IAC, Argent, Johnan America, Multimatic, BAS Components, Stabilus, SRG Global, ThyssenKrupp, ...
Suppliers to the 2011 Ford Explorer
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
Suppliers to the 2011 Ford Explorer include Metaldyne, Key Safety Systems, Omron, Visteon, FXI Foamex, ADAC, Magni Group, ITT Motion, Fraenkische, ContMid, HellermannTyto ...
Plastic steering wheels to debut in Asia this year
3:31 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
An all-plastic automotive steering wheel will launch in Asia later this year, replacing a part that traditionally relied on a steel or magnesium core. ...
Ford joins Suppliers' Choice winners
Auto suppliers have until Aug. 31 to apply for the 2012 Automotive News PACE Awards. The awards recognize innovation, technological advancement and business performance. ...
Special issue to mark a century of Chevrolet
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
On Oct. 31, Automotive News will publish a special issue for Chevrolet's 100th anniversary. Among the 100 stories, we'll tell the tale of the co-founders -- Billy ...
VW prepared to expand at Tenn. plant
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
Volkswagen Group of America is prepared to expand production of the U.S. Passat less than four months after building its first one. The automaker is looking for a sign fr ...
Supply line poses challenges for Sonic
2:00 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
General Motors' production launch of the Chevrolet Sonic subcompact this week is complicated by more than the automaker's creative labor agreement with the UAW, a GM manu ...
Nissan to suppliers: Come closer
5:01 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 2, 2011
Burned by the Japanese yen and stressed out over natural disasters and fuel costs, Nissan North America has a simple new directive to suppliers: Supply parts closer to Ni ...
Honeywell predicts major boom in turbo-charger use by 2020
5:14 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 1, 2011
Turbo-charger use on light vehicles in the United States will zoom to 82 percent by 2020 from just 5 percent in 2009, said Steve McKinley, a top executive with Honeywell ...
Chrysler to train suppliers in production system
5:24 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 1, 2011
Chrysler Group LLC wants to train its Tier One suppliers how to adopt its production system, dubbed World Class Manufacturing. In a pilot program, five key suppliers will ...
VW poised to pull trigger on more Passats
10:40 am U.S. ET, Aug. 1, 2011 | UPDATED: 8/1/11 11:13 am ET
Volkswagen of America is prepared to expand production of the U.S. Passat less than four months after building its first one. The automaker is looking for a sign from the ...
Toyota thinks small to cut power use
2:05 pm U.S. ET, Aug. 1, 2011
Like homeowners in a heat wave, Toyota is trying to cut back on its electric bill these days -- not just for cost savings but for the environmental benefits. ...
GM launches Sonic production at Orion plant
10:07 am U.S. ET, Aug. 1, 2011 | UPDATED: 8/1/11 1:36 pm ET
General Motors today launched production of the Chevrolet Sonic subcompact at its Orion Township assembly plant in suburban Detroit. The cars will be available in dealers ...
I recently had to interrupt a Nissan executive in Nashville in mid-sentence to question a word that those guys have been throwing around for the past few years. Monozukuri.... Read More »
He landed in Detroit directly from Italy at 1 a.m., slept a few hours and by 6 a.m. was boarding again for Traverse City, Mich. From Turin to Traverse City in less than 24 hours, with plenty of juicy material teed up for another performance. The man now known by only six letters came here with a message. Or a dozen.... Read More »
Rebecca Vest, Nissan North America's recently appointed North American purchasing head, yesterday took a stand that directly contradicts a decade-plus-long purchasing mantra at GM, Ford and other automotive companies.... Read More »
Life was so much different at this place on Aug. 5, 2007. I had just arrived at the CAR Management Briefing Seminars and took some editorial colleagues out for drinks on a Sunday evening at a lakeside restaurant. Then my cell phone rang.... Read More »
Debt ceilings. Demanding fuel economy standards. And stock markets ablaze with red figures following lower-than-expected data on the manufacturing sector. Gloom in Traverse City? Hardly.... Read More »
