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GM CEO listens to customer complaints
General Motors CEO Mary Barra is spending time in the automaker's call center listening to customer complaints. The new CEO spent about a half hour last Thursday wearing a headset at the suburban...
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GM CEO Mary Barra leads effort to address ignition switch recall concerns
General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra isn’t shying away from the public eye regarding the recall of 1.6 million vehicles due to faulty ignition switches. In fact, she’s propelling herself into it. The...
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Chrysler: All-new 200 to achieve up to 36 mpg
The 2015 midsize sedan – set to go on sale by July – is rated by the Environmental Protection Agency at 23 mpg city, 36 mpg highway and 28 mpg combined with the standard 2.4-liter Tigershark MultiAir2...
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Chevrolet Silverado, Equinox take center field for Detroit Tigers' 2014 season
The Chevrolet Silverado will return to Comerica Park’s center field for a second-straight year for Chevrolet. Officials announced today that the full-size pickup will sit atop the park's Chevrolet...
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Judge to hear request to park recalled GM cars
A Texas federal judge will hold a hearing next week on a lawsuit seeking to force General Motors to tell customers to stop driving some recalled cars. Lawyer Robert Hilliard says Judge Nelva Gonzales...
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Ally files for IPO that could raise more than $3B
The sale could raise as much as $3.06 billion. That plus the $15.3 billion the government has already recouped would make taxpayers whole for the $17.2 billion bailout that began in 2008.The federal...
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Ford to invest $500 million, add 300 jobs at Ohio plant for new EcoBoost engine
Ford Motor Co. plalns to invest $500 million and add 300 new jobs at one of its plants in Ohio to support production of a new 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine for the next-generation F-150. The investment,...
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GM pulling Opel out of China; German plant to build Buick for U.S.
Officials announced the move today in conjunction with GM announcing a roughly $336 million (245 million euro) investment in its Ruesselsheim plant in Germany.DETROIT, MI- General Motors Co. will pull...
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Feds close investigation of Tesla battery fires
The U.S. government's auto safety watchdog has closed an investigation into Tesla electric car battery fires after the company agreed to install more shields beneath the cars. Tesla says the shields...
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GM tells dealers to stop selling some Chevy Cruze models
GM has issued a stop-sale on all 2013 and 2014 model-year Cruzes equipped with a 1.4-liter turbo engine, but officials are not saying why it issued dealers to stop selling the vehicles. DETROIT, MI-...
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally earns $23.2 million in 2013; Bill Ford receives nearly...
Ford Motor Co. CEO and president Alan Mulally's total compensation increased 10.7 percent to $23.2 million in 2013, according to documents filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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GM expands ignition switch recall to 971,000 more cars; roughly 2.6 million...
Around 5:30 p.m. Friday, the Detroit-based automaker announced it is adding 824,000 vehicles from the 2008-2011 model-year to its U.S. recall of 1.3 million older model-year small cars since faulty...
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Ford exec: New F-150 Ecoboost engine adds to growing demand for V6 pickups
The all-new 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine could have a substantial impact on the 2015 F-150, according to Ford President of the Americas Joe Hinrichs. The Ford Motor Co. executive said the V6 engine,...
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UAW VP: Members deserve raises; no decision on dues hike
Jimmy Settles, who oversees Ford Motor Co. members, said it's been nearly nine years since UAW members have received a raise, so leaders next year will push for one during contract negotiations with...
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Official: Documents paint 'unsettling picture' of GM, NHTSA ignition switch...
A memo released Sunday by government officials outlines that General Motors Co. and the government’s vehicle safety watchdog failed to address faulty ignition switches in millions of cars that have...
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UAW: Membership up 2 percent in 2013
According to the union’s Labor Organization Annual Report filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, UAW membership increased 2 percent to 391,415 people, up nearly 9,000 members from numbers reported...
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Gov. Rick Snyder in Europe to lure Italian, German auto companies to expand...
"It's not about simply going and shaking hands and waving and talking about particular arrangements that come about. I view it as a long term investment..." Snyder said from Italy.LANSING — Gov. Rick...
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Feds: Vehicles to require backup cameras by 2018
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Monday issued a final rule requiring rear visibility technology in all new vehicles under 10,000 pounds...
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Barra: Unknown why GM ignition switch recall took years; vows to find out
General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra doesn’t know why it took the Detroit-based automaker more than a decade to recall millions of small cars due to faulty ignition switches, but she promises to find...
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GM recalls 1.3 million cars to fix power steering in U.S.
General Motors Co. Monday afternoon announced it will recall 1.3 million vehicles due to possible power steering issues and expects to experience a $750 million charge in the first quarter due to its...
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