Call it a fork in the road for America's second-largest automaker. Ford announced yesterday that it is pouring $550 million into the ongoing conversion of a Michigan truck plant into a facility that will produce the Ford Focus compact -- including ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When "The Apprentice" returns to U.S. television for a new season, the focus will be more on "You're hired!" than "You're fired!" NBC said on Wednesday that the next series of the popular reality show will feature ...Read More
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bayerische Motoren Werke AG aims to raise deliveries by 54 percent by the end of the decade with new small cars and growth in China and India. Porsche SE has a target of almost doubling sales ...Read More
Apple's recent purge of sex-tinged iPhone apps, combined with its lesser-known ban of 'cookie-cutter' apps, signifies the company's new focus on quality, rather than quantity, in its App Store.
Last month, Apple removed about 5,000 apps with 'overtly sexual content' from ...Read More
SHANGHAI -- China's passenger car sales climbed 55 percent from a year earlier in Feburary, despite a long national holiday, on strong demand for smaller cars and sport utility vehicles, an industry group reported Tuesday. Sales of cars, commercial vehicles and ...Read More
Toyota Motor Corp. has launched new promotions in China, fighting to keep sales in the world's car biggest market on track after its reputation was dented by a slew of recalls. The 75,522 RAV4 sport-utility vehicles recalled by Toyota in China ...Read More
Some models of Titan pickup trucks may have faulty brake pedal pins
Nissan is recalling nearly 540,000 pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles and minivans, most of them in the US.
It has indentified problems with brake pedal pins which come loose ...Read More
(Updates share price in 14th paragraph. See {SHOW <GO>} for Geneva auto show news and {EXT2 <GO>} for Toyota recall news.) March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda traveled to China from the U.S. to apologize for vehicle ...Read More
Ford today announced plans to produce a wagon version of is all-new Ford Focus for Europe starting late this year, but said it's unlikely that the vehicle will be sold in the United States ? unless more consumers here embrace ...Read More
General Motors Co. is looking at two offers for its Hummer brand after a deal to sell the line of sport utility vehicles to a Chinese manufacturer collapsed this week. The latest suitors previously submitted bids for Hummer, which GM turned ...Read More
DETROIT - General Motors said on Wednesday that it would shut down Hummer, the brand of big sport utility vehicles that became synonymous with the term gas guzzler, after a deal to sell it to a Chinese manufacturer fell apart. The ...Read More
Honda expands airbag inflation recall DETROIT — Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday. The company will replace the driver's side air bag inflator on the ...Read More
Looks like Adrian Pasdar couldn't flee the Heroes set quickly enough! The actor that played Nathan Petrelli on that critically-lambasted series was arrested early this morning for "failing to maintain his lane," according to police, on the 405 in Los Angeles. ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Heroes" TV actor Adrian Pasdar has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk and veering across lanes on a West Los Angeles freeway. A California Highway Patrol report says Pasdar was pulled over shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday ...Read More
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Stephen Smith, says authorities in Haiti must get on with the job of delivering emergency food and shelter. The United Nations says Haiti's Government has declared an end to the search and rescue efforts. Hours after the announcement ...Read More
With its new focus on Android-based handsets like Droid and Cliq, Motorola may finally be getting back its handset groove back. Even though the company recently posted surprise third-quarter profits, Motorola has struggled to come up with a popular device ...Read More
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban announced a successor to slain commander Baitullah Mehsud, but intelligence officials said Sunday it was probably a smokescreen meant to hold together a movement left leaderless for almost three weeks. Taliban officials rang journalists in ...Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The wife of Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina moved out of the governor's official residence with their four sons yesterday, a little more than a month after he admitted to a yearlong affair with an Argentine ...Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford and her four sons vacated the Governor’s Mansion on Friday and returned to the couple’s Sullivan’s Island home, where she said they would live for the upcoming school year. Jenny Sanford ...Read More
June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG, Europe’s largestautomaker, said “very weak” global car markets aren’t yetrecovering, even as the company’s sales rose in May for thefirst time in eight months thanks to government incentives. Deliveries at Volkswagen’s namesake brand increased 10percent ...Read More
Detroit auto icon Roger Penske could succeed where General Motors Corp. failed by giving Saturn attention and resources that were inconsistently doled out after GM launched the brand in 1985. Penske also will save huge overhead costs by concentrating on sales ...Read More
