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DETROIT -- In a bid to link its historic past with its future products, Ford Motor said on Thursday that it had chosen a site near downtown Detroit as the [...]

DETROIT -- A top Volkswagen official in the United States was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in prison for his role in the German automaker's decade-long scheme to cheat [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- For more than a year, General Motors has tantalized investors with plans to build its future around self-driving cars. It has regularly announced big investments and progress [...]

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- It has been years since Detroit, birthplace of the American auto industry, was a steady producer of the manufacturing jobs that defined it as the Motor [...]

DETROIT -- The Republican tax proposal has clouded the outlook for electric vehicles in the United States. The congressional plan presented on Thursday, which would abolish a $7,500 federal income-tax [...]

A year ago, Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, pledged to revolutionize auto manufacturing with a major expansion of the company's electric-car factory in Fremont, Calif. But after disrupting the automotive [...]

DETROIT -- Detroit's Big Three automakers are showing a new sense of bottom-line discipline as they angle for any advantage in the race with Silicon Valley, and one another, to [...]

General Motors, the nation's largest automaker, reported a third-quarter loss of $3 billion on Tuesday, stemming primarily from a large accounting charge for the sale of its European operations. Here [...]

DETROIT -- The electric-car maker Tesla fired hundreds of workers this week after a series of performance reviews conducted during the biggest expansion in the company's history. Tesla said Friday [...]

DETROIT -- General Motors said on Monday that it had acquired a company that specializes in laser-imaging technology geared toward enhancing the development of autonomous vehicles. G.M., the nation's largest [...]

DETROIT -- China has said it will eventually ban gasoline-powered cars. California may be moving in the same direction. That pressure has set off a scramble by the world's car [...]

Even as the government moved Tuesday to open a clearer path for automakers to develop driverless cars, its leading safety agency waved a new warning flag. After a yearlong investigation, [...]

DETROIT -- A Volkswagen engineer was sentenced on Friday to 40 months in prison for his role in the German automaker's decade-long scheme to cheat on federal emissions tests for [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDETROIT -- The event scheduled for Thursday at Fiat Chrysler's Illinois assembly plant was supposed to shine a light on what the company does best: build high-margin Jeep sport [...]

DETROIT -- For eight years, the shell of prebankruptcy General Motors has lingered on in the form of ''old G.M.'' -- first as a corporate entity and now as an [...]

DETROIT -- A Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges arising from a continuing investigation into the automaker's diesel emissions scandal. The charges against the executive, Oliver Schmidt, [...]

The electric-car maker Tesla faces challenges in introducing its first mass-market vehicle, but the company's chief executive, Elon Musk, sought to reassure investors on Wednesday that the company was up [...]

FREMONT, Calif. -- After a meteoric rise that made it, at least briefly, the most valuable car company in America, Tesla arrived at a moment of truth on Friday night [...]

DETROIT -- General Motors said Tuesday that its second-quarter profit dropped 42 percent from a year earlier, primarily because of losses associated with the pending sale of its European operations. [...]

The United Auto Workers union has waged a long and mostly futile campaign to organize factories in the South, where much of the nation's auto production has shifted. Now the [...]

DETROIT -- After a prolonged recovery that culminated in two years of record sales, the American auto industry is slowing down, with fewer buyers in dealer showrooms and fewer workers [...]

DETROIT -- In a move that highlights the shifting landscape of global auto production, Ford Motor said Tuesday that it would build its next-generation small car in China rather than [...]

DETROIT -- General Motors and Tesla are automakers of different vintages but increasingly mutual aspirations. They found another bit of common ground on Tuesday as both beat back proposals from [...]

DETROIT -- The chief executive of General Motors, an automaker synonymous with Detroit, saw the future of driving not in the Motor City but on the streets of San Francisco. [...]

DEARBORN, Mich. -- Ford Motor was the American automaker savvy enough to avoid bankruptcy when industry sales collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis. Then it rode economic recovery and cheap [...]

DEARBORN, Mich. -- In a shake-up reflecting the pressures on the American auto industry, Ford Motor is replacing its chief executive, Mark Fields, according to officials briefed on the move. [...]

DETROIT -- It was not long ago that Ford Motor was considered the healthiest of the Detroit automakers. Unlike General Motors and Chrysler, Ford survived the financial crisis that began [...]

DETROIT -- A major recall of pickup trucks announced Friday by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is another dose of bad news for a company already on the skids in the American [...]

DETROIT -- Ford Motor moved its annual shareholders meeting from the physical world to the virtual on Thursday. But the new format did little to shield the company from dissatisfied [...]

The electric-car maker Tesla said on Wednesday that its losses had widened in the first quarter, but that sales and revenues had grown rapidly as the company prepared for the [...]

Americans want bigger, faster and more luxurious sport utility vehicles -- and automakers are more than happy to fulfill the booming demand. New S.U.V.s dominated media previews on Wednesday at [...]

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 billion to upgrade [...]

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 record-setting American market [...]

DETROIT -- Volkswagen took another step Thursday to move past its emissions-cheating scandal by agreeing to pay $157 million to 10 states to settle environmental lawsuits. The agreement is the [...]

DETROIT -- President Trump's goal of stimulating growth in the American auto industry is getting a big push from the seemingly insatiable appetite of consumers for more trucks and sport [...]

FRANKFURT -- German authorities searched the offices of the American law firm Volkswagen hired to conduct an internal investigation of its emissions fraud, the carmaker confirmed on Thursday, raising questions [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- President Trump traveled to Detroit on Wednesday to announce a rollback of stringent fuel economy standards for cars and trucks that were put in place by the [...]

YPSILANTI, Mich. -- President Trump came to the heart of the auto industry on Wednesday with a manifesto for American manufacturing: to remove the shackles of regulation and restore an [...]

DETROIT -- Automakers appear to be on the verge of a rare victory in their long-term effort to reduce government regulations on new cars and trucks. As soon as Tuesday, [...]

FRANKFURT -- General Motors floated the possibility on Tuesday that it could exit the large but troubled European market by selling its chronically unprofitable Opel unit to the French maker [...]

DETROIT -- There are many reasons for the steady success of the three major American automakers in recent years, but none are bigger than the surging sales of full-size pickup [...]

The idea of a broad tax on importers is suddenly at the center of the Washington policy debate, with the inevitable counting of potential winners and losers. Such a tax [...]

President Trump met on Tuesday with the chief executives of the three Detroit automakers and urged them to build new factories in the United States, and he vowed to change [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDonald J. Trump won't be sworn in until Friday but big business has already thrown him a veritable inaugural ball. A series of blue-chip companies, among them Ford, Lockheed [...]

DETROIT -- Federal regulators on Friday affirmed long-term fuel-economy goals central to the Obama administration's efforts to reduce harmful emissions from cars and trucks sold in the United States. The [...]

DETROIT -- President-elect Donald J. Trump is not attending the country's premier auto show here. But his vow to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico has changed the focus of [...]

DETROIT -- There are shiny new sport utility vehicles, brawny pickups and sleek sedans. But the unlikely star of the annual Detroit auto show is an odd-looking minivan capable of [...]

DETROIT -- Unexpectedly strong sales of new vehicles in the United States in December propelled the industry to another record figure in 2016: 17.55 million sold. That is the good [...]

DETROIT -- Donald J. Trump has promised to change the way American automakers do business. Less than three weeks before his inauguration as president, he has already knocked the companies [...]

In the race to develop self-driving cars, Michigan is suddenly aiming to give Silicon Valley a run for its money. The Motor City has been the center of the United [...]