by Joseph Szczesny | May 15, 2015
Employees of DriveNow, the electric car-sharing unit wholly owned by BMW, are suing the company for failing to meet the minimum wage and overtime laws in California. The lawsuit claims the BMW subsidiary, which operates in the San Francisco Bay area, avoids paying...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 15, 2015
This story has been edited to include newly released information, including pictures, related to the story. The winding lanes on Belle Isle, the sprawling park in the Detroit River, will be crowded with muscle cars and performance fans tomorrow, Chevrolet expecting at...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 15, 2015
Days after Toyota and Nissan announced the recall of 6.5 million vehicles due to potentially faulty Takata airbags, Honda and Daihatsu have launched new service actions of their own covering yet another 5 million vehicles sold worldwide. That will bring to about 35...
by Michael Strong | May 14, 2015
Some Fiat Chrysler workers who may have been looking forward to a respite during the annual summer shutdown in early July are going to be disappointed this year: no shut down. The automaker is eschewing the usual downtime at four facilities in order to fill ongoing...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 14, 2015
With proponents promising the technology could significantly reduce crashes, U.S. regulators plan to speed up the process of developing new rules requiring cars to electronically talk to one another. Proposed connected car guidelines will now be released by the end of...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 14, 2015
We’ve all had one of those moments, cruising down the road and running up on another driver whose behavior gets us grinding our teeth. But what are the most infuriating behaviors likely to set off a bout of road rage? Texters top the list, according to a study of...
by Joseph Szczesny | May 14, 2015
The need to speed up the product development cycles helped expedite the big automaker’s decision to spend $1 billion dollars to rebuild and refurbish the company’s aging technical center in Warren, Michigan, a Detroit suburb. Mark Reuss, GM vice president...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 14, 2015
Motorists and pedestrians alike have had quite a surprise in Vienna this week. The city is taking a strong political stand for equality – and using its traffic lights to get the message across. Dozens of traffic lights around the center of the historic city have...
by Michael Strong | May 14, 2015
General Motors continues to plow cash into its facilities as part of a $5.4 billion investment plan announced last month, the maker unveiled plans to spend as much as $1 billion to upgrade and expand its Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Construction on the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 14, 2015
Hot hatch fans gather each year in the Austrian town of Worthersee for the latest news from Volkswagen AG. And the automaker isn’t about to disappoint them this year. In fact, it’s rolling out a pair of offerings at the event. That includes both the 287-horsepower GTI...
by Michael Strong | May 13, 2015
Desperate times call for desperate measures the saying goes and Fiat Chrysler Chief Sergio Marchionne may feel like that’s where he’s at when it comes to his continuous calls for industry consolidation. He’s been rebuffed by at least one automaker, but undeterred he...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 13, 2015
Japan’s largest automaker is teaming up with one of the country’s smaller manufacturers in a nascent alliance that underscores the increasingly competitive nature of the global auto industry. Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda suggested the new partnership with Mazda...
