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Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- In the latest move by a major automaker to enhance its American manufacturing operations, Toyota said on Monday that it would invest more than $1.3 [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- By almost every measure, General Motors has been on a roll. Its bellwether pickups and sport utility vehicles have hit the sweet spot in a [...]

Byline: JACK EWING, CHAD BRAY and BILL VLASIC FRANKFURT -- General Motors floated the possibility on Tuesday that it could exit the large but troubled European market by selling its [...]

Byline: NEAL E. BOUDETTE and BILL VLASIC In the race to develop self-driving cars, Michigan is suddenly aiming to give Silicon Valley a run for its money. The Motor City [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- Since going bankrupt in 2009 and needing a government bailout to survive, General Motors has methodically rebuilt itself as a profitable automaker that has capitalized [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC General Motors has won a second consecutive case in litigation over its defective ignition switches, as a New York jury found that a faulty switch was not [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC and MIKE ISAAC DETROIT -- General Motors is planning to acquire the software firm Cruise Automation as part of its larger effort to develop fully autonomous vehicles. [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- General Motors said on Friday that it would sell its first Chinese-made vehicle in the United States next year in an effort to expand the [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC Four months after his proposal to merge with General Motors was rejected, Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, says that he has no plans [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- When American carmakers negotiated their existing contract with the United Auto Workers union four years ago, the domestic auto industry was just recovering from a [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- Mary T. Barra, the chief executive of General Motors, has firmly rejected the idea that the company could benefit from a combination with a rival [...]

Byline: DANIELLE IVORY, BEN PROTESS and BILL VLASIC Justice Department investigators have identified criminal wrongdoing in General Motors' failure to disclose a defect tied to at least 104 deaths and [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- The consequences of General Motors' long-delayed recall of defective small cars have hit a grim milestone: The company's compensation fund said it had approved the [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC After a huge safety crisis and a revolt by disgruntled investors, General Motors is eager to turn its attention back to cars and trucks. G.M., the nation's [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- General Motors said it would buy back $5 billion in company stock this year as part of a negotiated settlement with dissident investors led by [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- To cope with the gravest safety crisis in its history, General Motors has spent freely - almost $3 billion - to compensate accident victims and [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC and HILARY STOUT DETROIT -- Spurred by a decade-old ignition-switch defect in millions of General Motors vehicles, the auto industry in the past year has issued more [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- Raymond DeGiorgio was just another obscure engineer at General Motors - until the company blamed him for starting the worst safety crisis in its history. [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- General Motors hopes to invigorate sales of its slow-selling Chevrolet Volt by introducing a new version of the plug-in hybrid sedan next year, with more [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- General Motors reported third-quarter earnings of $1.38 billion on Thursday, nearly doubling its $698 million profit from a year earlier as margins improved in its [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC MILFORD, Mich. -- Since February, the new management team at General Motors has been consumed by one agenda item: fixing millions of defective small cars that have [...]

Byline: HILARY STOUT, BILL VLASIC, DANIELLE IVORY and REBECCA R. RUIZ Mykia Jordan has no memory of the car accident that put her in a coma for three weeks, left [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC and DANIELLE IVORY Mary T. Barra, chief executive of General Motors, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to tell lawmakers that the automaker has started to change [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- To the legal department at General Motors, secrecy ruled. Employees were discouraged from taking notes in meetings. Workers' emails were examined once a year for [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- The moment captured a new sense of confidence that General Motors has been anxiously awaiting from Mary T. Barra, its embattled chief executive. At a [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC and CHRISTOPHER JENSEN It seems that no car, truck or sport utility vehicle in General Motors' vast product lineup is immune to the automaker's blitz of safety [...]

Byline: HILARY STOUT and BILL VLASIC An unusual meeting took place this past week at a law office high in a Times Square skyscraper. Lawyers from about 100 law firms [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- The ignition-switch scandal at General Motors widened on Thursday as the automaker suspended two engineers and added another repair to its recall of cars with [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC and HILARY STOUT DETROIT -- At the end of the second bruising day of testimony on General Motors' ignition switch recall, Mary T. Barra was in no [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC and MATTHEW L. WALD WASHINGTON -- As families of crash victims lined the back of the House hearing room, displaying photos of their lost loved ones, Mary [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- Somewhere inside the two-inch ignition switch from the 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt was the clue that Mark Hood was seeking. An engineer in Florida, Mr. Hood [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC and CHRISTOPHER JENSEN Mary T. Barra, General Motors' chief executive, has announced another round of wide-ranging recalls, a sign that the company is moving with a new [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- General Motors' chief executive, Mary T. Barra, has told employees that she has personally taken charge of the company's recall of 1.6 million vehicles to [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- No matter how much attention she draws as the auto industry's first female chief executive, Mary T. Barra is determined to keep the focus on [...]

Byline: BILL VLASIC DETROIT -- The heady combination of growing sales and big profits has led automakers to reinvest heavily in new models and make major changes to some of [...]

The article reports on the announcement of the American automaker General Motors on its self-driving cars. It cites that the company will demonstrate its computer-operated, battery-powered Chevrolet Bolts in San Francisco. The article also reports on the development of the prototype driverless car through a subsidiary, Cruise Automation.

The article discusses plan of automakers like General Motors (GM) and Ford Motor to make several electric vehicle models due to possible elimination of gasoline-powered cars and introduction of emissions standards by nations like the U.S.; and views of GM chief executive Mary T. Barra on the issue.

The article reports that the automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) has blocked the deal made by its trust, Motors Liquidation Co., with the victims of defective ignition switches used in GM automobiles prior to the company's 2009 bankruptcy filing and subsequent turnaround. Topics discussed include the terms of the settlement between the trust and the plaintiffs, the reasons for GM's decision to block the deal and the allegations that GM interfered with the trust that made the deal.

The article describes automobile manufacturer General Motors' (GM's) developing and testing self-driven fully automated Chevrolet Bolt cars on the streets of San Francisco, California. It highlights GM's chief executive officer (CEO) Mary T. Barra's testing a self-driven car. Topics discussed include production of self driven Chevrolet Bolt cars by the company, the company's business operations and Barra's approaches regarding the production of the cars.

The article focuses on the economic state of the automaker General Motors (GM) after U.S. president Donald Trump promises to simplify rules in order to create manufacturing jobs. It also discusses how the bankruptcy filing of G.M. has downgraded G.M.'s position in the industry also resulting in the economic growth of automaker Tesla.

The article discusses the impact of the U.S. President Donald J. Trump's potential border tax would have on the Detroit, Michigan automobile industry's finances, particularly on the sales of pickup trucks. An overview of the potential tariff's impact on the Detroit automakers Ford, General Motors (G.M.) and Fiat Chrysler, including in regard to the latter two companies' automobile manufacturing in Mexico, is provided.

The article discusses the claim that automobile sales in the U.S. have increased between 2000 and 2015, and it mentions how the Detroit, Michigan-based automobile manufacturing brands such as Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., and Daimler AG (Daimler-Chrysler) are no longer the financially dominant firms in terms of automobile sales. It states that Japanese automobile makers such as Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. Ltd., and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. have all gained market share as of 2015.

The article discusses the labor union United Automobile Workers' (U.A.W.'s) labor contracts for the Detroit, Michigan automobile manufacturers Ford Motor company, Fiat Chrysler company and General Motors company allowing for a salary increase for the employees of each company. An overview of the U.A.W. President Dennis Williams' role in the labor contracts is provided.

The article focuses on the advanced cars being produced by the three automobile giants including General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV in Detroit, Michigan.

The article reports on the acquisition of Strobe, a laser-imaging technology specializing company, by General Motors for development of autonomous vehicles.

The article discusses a 2015 settlement between prosecutors and the automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) regarding GM's decade-long failure to disclose defects with their automobiles. Topics include GM's agreement to pay a $900 million penalty, the U.S. Justice Department's deferral of prosecuting GM for three years, during which GM is to adhere to safety practices and independent monitoring agreed upon, and the disappointment of families of the victims of the defects.

The article looks at the problem of defective ignition switches in cars from automobile company General Motors (GM), the focus of a large-scale recall, discussing internal U.S. Transportation Department reports criticizing how the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) handled the problem. Topics include the finding of a long delay before the agency forced GM to address the problem and the challenge of verifying safety data provided by car companies to the government.

The article profiles Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive officer (C.E.O.,) of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (F.C.A.) automobile company. Topics addressed include Marchionne's oversight of the successful merger of automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his proposal to automaker General Motors (G.M.) C.E.O. Mary T. Barra that Fiat Chrysler merge with G.M., and planned negotiations between automakers and the United Automobile Workers (U.A.W.) union.

The article discusses automobile company General Motors' (G.M.'s) plans to use the 2015 New York auto show as a means of moving beyond a safety crisis and financial issues for the company in 2014 and 2015. Topics addressed include G.M. president Daniel Ammann's outlook on the significance of the show, as well as the company's plans to introduce its Cadillac CT6 and Chevrolet Malibu vehicles at the show,