Those Jetsons - the forward-looking cartoon family of the 1960s - were on to something with their bubbly, teardrop-shaped space car. ...more

June 2, 2008

American automakers have been making the shift to more fuel-efficient vehicles, but consumers have been making the move even faster - to hybrids and high-mileage models made overseas. Gas prices have accelerated the move away from trucks and sport utility vehicles at a furious pace, leaving the Big Three at the most critical crossroads in 30 years. ...more

May 31, 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

DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. says it is cutting North American production for the rest of the year as high gas prices and the weak economy depress its sales. ...more

May 22, 2008

Getting a year older didn't bother Leo Watson one bit. He celebrated his birthday March 31, the same day as the birth of his granddaughter Lily Ann Haynes. ...more

May 21, 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

General Motors, Ford and Chrysler saw double-digit U.S. sales declines, but Toyota's sales edged up 3 percent in April, as high gas prices accelerated consumers' rush away from trucks and sport utility vehicles. ...more

May 2, 2008

Douglas A. Fraser, who led the United Auto Workers union through dark hours in the U.S. auto industry in the 1970s and '80s and was instrumental in the effort that saved Chrysler from bankruptcy, has died. He was 91. ...more

February 25, 2008

The government is investigating reports of engine fires in General Motors' full-size sport utility vehicles. ...more

February 12, 2008

General Motors Corp. said Wednesday that half its U.S. vehicle volume will run on ethanol by 2012, just as partner Coskata Inc. is expected to be increasing ethanol production. ...more

February 7, 2008