Chip Ganassi shocked the NASCAR industry when he shut down Dario Franchitti's unsponsored race team, putting last year's IndyCar Series champion and 71 other employees out of work. That it happened to Ganassi, a multi-car owner who six weeks ago won the Indianapolis 500, was a wake-up call to every team owner not named Childress, Gibbs, Hendrick or Roush. ...more

July 16, 2008

All those job cuts at automakers, newspapers and even Starbucks are hard to stomach. But in a roundabout way, they may actually help the economy a bit. ...more

July 4, 2008

Faced with a continuing plunge in pickup and sport utility vehicle sales, Ford Motor Co. on Friday tried to deal with the mess by delaying production of the new F-150 pickup and announcing further factory cuts. ...more

June 21, 2008

Battered by a slumping North American auto market and unfavorable currency swings, Toyota is forecasting a double barrel of bad news this fiscal year: its first year-on-year sales slide in nine years and first profit slip in seven years. ...more

May 9, 2008

Ford Motor Co.'s top manufacturing executive says the company will save money with a new contract ratified last weekend by the Canadian Auto Workers, even though it doesn't include a lower-tier pay scale for new hires. ...more

May 6, 2008

Congress sent President Bush legislation Thursday to improve auto safety for children, including measures intended to reduce back-overs and accidents involving power windows. ...more

February 15, 2008

The World Trade Organization on Wednesday issued its first official condemnation of Chinese commercial practices, siding with the United States, the European Union and Canada in a dispute over car parts. ...more

February 14, 2008

General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner urged a group of auto dealers Saturday to lobby against individual states trying to set their own limits on greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

February 10, 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

Wal-Mart Chief Executive Officer H. Lee Scott says he has talked with automakers about the possibility of selling gasoline-electric hybrid cars and plug-in automobiles at the retailer's stores, though one analyst calls the idea "a bit far-fetched." ...more

January 25, 2008