by Michael Strong | Sep 29, 2015
Federal safety officials plan to shine a spotlight on more automakers that installed Takata airbags in their vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contacted seven more automakers about their use of Takata airbags and their plans for dealing with...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 28, 2015
Less than a week after tendering his resignation as Volkswagen AG CEO and taking responsibility – more or less – for the maker’s diesel emission test cheating scandal, Martin Winterkorn has found himself in the gunsights of German prosecutors. After admitting it...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 28, 2015
In what is either the sign of the apocalypse or a corporate transformation, General Motors has landed for of its new models on the “Short List” for North American Car of the Year. But the irony is that for a maker long known for its ho-hum cars and more competitive...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 28, 2015
The City of Lights might more accurately be called the city of smog these days. Paris has become one of the world’s most polluted cities, and automobiles catch much of the blame. Over the last few years that has forced Parisian officials to implement occasional limits...
by Michael Strong | Sep 28, 2015
Thousands, perhaps millions, of people followed the movements of Pope Francis during his six-day visit to the U.S. hanging on every word he uttered and, not surprisingly, the black Fiat 500L that often ferried him from event to event. The compact car is a marked...
by Henny Hemmes | Sep 28, 2015
The boardroom at Mercedes-Benz was wracked with turmoil when the German maker first considered adding a compact luxury car to its line-up. But the original Mercedes 190 was an instant success, and what is today known as the C-Class is one of the anchors of its...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 28, 2015
Facing what has become the worst crisis in its history, Volkswagen is vowing to come up with a fix for its diesel pollution problem “as soon as possible,” its U.S. subsidiary launched a special website, vwdieselinfo.com, where owners can go for information about the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 28, 2015
Despite uncertainty in the global economy, the U.S. auto industry continues to motor along at a steady clip. As a result of the vigorous selling pace during the spring and summer months — the selling rate from May through August averaged 17.5 million units — LMC...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 28, 2015
At times, the auto industry has at least one thing in common with baseball: you can’t tell the players apart without a scorecard. That’s especially true with Infiniti, the Japanese automaker sowing plenty of confusion when it decided to rename familiar products like...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 25, 2015
© 2015 TheDetroitBureau.com German authorities now say 2.8 million Volkswagen diesel vehicles sold in that country “are affected” by the maker’s rigging of emissions tests. But VW may not be the only maker implicated. The suspect turbodiesel engine used by Volkswagen...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 25, 2015
As the new head of Volkswagen AG, Matthias Mueller will be overseeing the largest automaker in the world, a sprawling empire of brands and manufacturing facilities stretching from Beijing to Berlin. But that empire is also facing the biggest crisis in its 78-year...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 25, 2015
Hyundai is recalling nearly 500,000 Sonata sedans because a manufacturing problem could cause their engines to fail. Hyundai has notified the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that engines produced at its powertrain plant in Alabama may not have been...
