At a General Motors Corp. factory just west of Detroit, about 1,000 workers are still cranking out mighty but thirsty V-8 engines that go into pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. ...more

July 19, 2008

Volkswagen picked Chattanooga over rival sites in two other states for a new U.S. assembly plant expected to create about 2,000 jobs. ...more

July 16, 2008

General Motors says it has developed a technology to put the brakes on car thieves and came to Tampa on Tuesday to prove it. ...more

June 11, 2008

Ford Motor Co. is cutting North American production of pickups and SUVs as car buyers seeing record gas prices turn toward more fuel-efficient models. The automaker says it no longer expects to return to profitability by 2009 and didn't rule out layoffs and plant closings. ...more

May 23, 2008

It's been 4 1/2 years since former Home Depot Chief Executive Bob Nardelli's bold prediction that the home improvement retailer could sustain "unlimited growth" without significantly affecting sales at established stores. ...more

May 2, 2008

Knocked back? Yes. Humbled? Not so much. Only three months removed from a debut season in NASCAR's top series in which Toyota teams placed only one car in the top 35 in the owners standings, Toyota Racing Development general manager Lee White sounds almost brash about 2008. ...more

February 14, 2008

When thousands of U.S. auto dealers gather in San Francisco this weekend, much of the talk will be about just getting through 2008. ...more

February 9, 2008

Chrysler LLC president Jim Press said Friday that the automaker's rejuvenation plan could include jettisoning some dealers and cutting its product lineup by as much as half. ...more

February 9, 2008

Toyota may have fallen short of General Motors in global vehicle sales last year, but it has beaten its U.S. rival in another measure - global vehicle production. ...more

January 29, 2008

A recent article in the Tampa Tribune spoke to the many "bells and whistles" being offered or soon to be offered in modern autos. A technology company spokesman is quoted as saying "Everybody wants to take their living room with them." Including DVD players and computers? I wonder what ever happened to keeping one's mind on the road? What was interesting is that with all the gadgets mentioned a simple device like a clock was not included. With everyone's need to be in more than one place at a time and with a GPS to tell them where to go you'd think they would like to know if they will get there on time. Oh yeah, I do have a clock in my car but it's built into the radio which is inconvenient to look at and, depending on where the sun is, impossible to see in the daylight. ...more

January 26, 2008