Friday, November 20, 2009
Ford investing $2.3B to boost production in Brazil
Ford will invest nearly $2.3 billion in Brazil over the next five years to modernize factories and expand production in South America's largest market. - 4:02 pm
Honda, Hyundai lead EPA fuel efficiency rankings
Honda has the most fuel efficient fleet in the United States, followed closely by Hyundai, the EPA said today in releasing preliminary figures. Detroit's Big Three finished in the last three spots. - 3:52 pm
Chrysler incentives include 0% financing, cash back
Chrysler Group LLC today announced new incentives for the holiday season in a bid to drive consumers into its showrooms. - 3:52 pm
Toyota's image under scrutiny
For years, Toyota Motor Corp. has investigated complaints from drivers saying their Toyota and Lexus vehicles accelerated all by themselves, and the company has identified essentially one cause. - 3:52 pm
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- GM to release plan for European units in December - 06:51 AM
- Nev. regulators approve casino license for Aria - 07:36 PM
- GM says 193 people have returned cars under plan - 06:42 PM
- Largest Conn. newspaper hit with plagiarism suit - 02:38 PM
- GM gets tax break to stay in Detroit headquarters - 05:57 PM
Business
- Sun-Times Media names John Barron group publisher - 05:28 PM
- Investors sue Fla. lawyer in fraud probe for $100M - 05:28 PM
- Moody's downgrades Sprint rating - 05:27 PM
- SC jury finds '3 Hebrew Boys' guilty in scam - 05:26 PM
- Ex-Ford worker accused of stealing $32M in trade secrets
- Ghosn: General Motors should have joined team in 2006
- 'Different' Chrysler zeroes in on quality
- Engineers sweat Chevy Volt details
- Daniel Howes: Howes: Chrysler's last chance to get it right
- McCain won't back off slam about Chrysler
- House panel OKs Ford ILC amendment
- Manny Lopez: Driver, 101, digs new generation Camaro
- Fans mark end of the Edsel line
- New, used car prices rise in October
- Scott Burgess: Hybrid fused into Milan
- John McCormick: Vehicle safety still has room to improve
- Sneak Peek: 2011 Chevy Aveo
- Extend your car's life with timely maintenance
- Soup it up: Tailgate step provides safety
- In brief
Opel head: Company must shrink capacity up to 25%
GM's troubled German carmaker Adam Opel GmbH needs to reduce its production capacity across Europe by as much as 25 percent, the new head of Opel said Friday. - 4:12 pm
Ex-czar gives Chrysler take
New York -- Steven Rattner, the Obama administration's former top auto adviser, disclosed for the first time Thursday that a key aim of restructuring Chrysler was installing a new management team. - 3:22 pm
Prosecutor to appeal bond of man charged in Ford theft
Detroit --A federal prosecutor said Thursday she will appeal a judge's decision to grant bond to a Chinese citizen accused of stealing up to $32 million worth of Ford Motor Co. engineering plans. - 12:22 pm
Safety officials have investigated hundreds of Toyota complaints
U.S. safety regulators have looked into hundreds of reports of uncontrolled acceleration in Toyota and Lexus vehicles over more than five years. - 1:00 am
GM to release plan for European units in December
General Motors said it expects to release a full restructuring plan for its Opel and Vauxhall operations in mid December, but did not specify the amount of cuts to capacity and jobs it would seek. - 3:22 pm
U.K. car production down 6.7 percent in October
London -- U.K. car production was down 6.7 percent in October compared to a year ago, the smallest year-on-year drop of 2009, an industry group said today. - 9:42 am
VW to buy Karmann assets, create new model
Frankfurt -- German carmaker Volkswagen AG said Friday it will buy some assets of German contract carbuilder Wilhelm Karmann GmbH to create a new manufacturing subsidiary that will eventually build a new car model. - 12:22 pm
Forecast for November auto sales divided
Forecasters are divided on the strength of November auto sales figures due to be released next month, but the results are expected to be on the higher end in a year that has seen few peaks. J.D. Power and Associates expects November sales to increase marginally, less than 1 percent from a year ago, while Edmunds.com is predicting a 4.5 percent decrease in sales. - 7:02 pm
Peters urges McCain to attend Detroit auto show; backs Chrysler survival
The first-term Democrat from Bloomfield Township fired back at the 2008 Republican presidential nominee over his contention that no "objective" observer believes that Chrysler will survive and urged McCain to attend NAIAS in Detroit. - 7:02 pm
Additional reports
- John McCormick: Vehicle safety still has room to improve
- Sneak Peek: 2011 Chevy Aveo
- Extend your car's life with timely maintenance
- Soup it up: Tailgate step provides safety
Hybrid fused into Milan
Scott Burgess: The problem with Mercury isn't the brand. Its collective group of vehicles is sedate, understated and pretty nice. - 8:07 am
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The Detroit News' autos team
- Bryce Hoffman, Ford Motor Co.
- Robert Snell, General Motors Corp.
- Alisa Priddle, Chrysler LLC, automotive suppliers
- Christine Tierney, foreign automakers
- David Shepardson, automotive policy issues in Washington D.C.
- Scott Burgess, auto critic
- Manny Lopez, auto editor
