by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 5, 2019
General Motors Chairman Mary Barra described the meeting as “productive” after talking directly to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. After the meeting, GM officials noted the company’s executive routinely meet with policy makers and Barra herself described...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 5, 2019
Strong sales by Japanese brands helped bolster sales of new vehicles in August – led by Toyota, Honda and Subaru – despite warnings the market could be on the verge of softening. American Honda – Honda and Acura – broke an all-time monthly sales records for total...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 4, 2019
A former United Auto Workers official pleaded guilty Wednesday to charge of abusing his position to solicit kickbacks from vendors and supplier working for the joint General Motors-UAW Human Resources Center in Detroit. Michael Grimes, who played a key role in the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 4, 2019
As the United Auto Workers target in its drive for a new contract, General Motors Co. faces a difficult challenge in finding a way to satisfy the UAW’s demands for economic gains and new protections of existing jobs in the automakers U.S. factories. “We look forward...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 4, 2019
Fiat Chrysler Automobile N.V. plans to discontinue the distribution of the current generation of Fiat 500 and Fiat 500e in North America due to slow and declining sales. The demise of the 500 was foretold by the sharp drop in sales. Sales have been declining for...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 3, 2019
The United Auto Workers broke with conventional wisdom and selected General Motors Co. as its strike target in negotiations for a new labor pact as talks enter their final phase, setting up a showdown about plants closings, wages and future product allocations. Gary...
by Joseph Szczesny | Sep 3, 2019
The new NAFTA or the United States Mexico Canada Agreement as it is called by Trump administration is up for consideration but Democrats and leaders from organized labor say they have major reservations about the agreement highly touted by the President and critical...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 30, 2019
Utility vehicles come in different sizes, but they also share a basic shape, which can make it difficult for manufacturers to separate the vehicles from the competition in any given segment. However, one company that seems to have mastered the art of differentiation...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 29, 2019
New vehicle sales numbers for August are mixed, analysts agree, with unit sales increasing thanks to an extra day of sales but industry’s SAAR or seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales continuing to drop. Charles Chesbrough, senior economist with Cox Automotive,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 28, 2019
A federal grand jury in San Jose, California, has indicted Anthony Scott Levandowski in a 33-count criminal complaint charging him with stealing trade secrets from his former employers at Google and Waymo. David L. Anderson, the U.S Attorney for the Northern District...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 27, 2019
Ferdinand Piech, the Porsche family patriarch and imperious former leader of the Volkswagen Group, who set the company on the road to becoming the world’s largest automaker and also created a corporate culture that nearly buried the company in scandal, has died at the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 26, 2019
Toyota is planning to put a fleet of 3,700 low-emission vehicles into service for the Olympic games set for next year in Tokyo. Toyota Motor Corp. is the worldwide partner of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and said the line-up of electrified vehicles will...
