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Ford Motor Co. marketing chief Jim Farley has a busy year ahead, with the launch of major products such as the Ford Escape and the revamp of the luxury Lincoln brand. And as the new Ford Fusion was debuting at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the new Ford EcoSport, a compact SUV for developing markets, was unveiled in New Delhi. Both will go on sale later this year.
Lincoln was once the pinnacle of luxury. Continental limousines carried presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan. Town Cars ferried executives through Manhattan. Athletes and rappers cruised around in Navigator SUVs.
Fiat hopes to start fresh in North America after a disappointing first year.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Scion brand wants to give young drivers something the market is lacking: a lower-priced, rear-wheel-drive sports car.
The Porsche 911 is putting the top down.
Ford hopes its redesigned Fusion can help it catch the Camry.
Beyond the usual hype at the Detroit auto show, automakers have plenty to crow about this year: U.S. sales are the highest since 2008 and they're expected to keep growing. Buyers are being lured by cheap loans and an improving economy.
Ford Motor Co. is the latest automaker to open a research lab in Silicon Valley, where it hopes to scout out new technology and keep ahead of trends.
It's the end of the road for the Ranger in the U.S.
Electric car maker Aptera Motors is closing after failing to woo enough investors to bring a new sedan to market.
More Americans hunted for bargains over the weekend than ever before as retailers lured them online and into stores with big discounts and an earlier-than-usual start to the holiday shopping season.
You can't drive far in the U.S. without seeing a Toyota Camry, Honda Accord or Ford Fusion.
The Ford Escape is getting a long overdue makeover, ditching its boxy styling for a sleek look that Ford hopes will outshine competitors.
Ford Motor Co., stung by falling quality ratings because of its glitch-prone MyFord Touch system, is planning a major upgrade that it hopes will fix the problems — and repair its own reputation.
The union that once set the gold standard for American wages is giving up pay raises in exchange for a piece of the auto industry's profits and the promise of thousands of new jobs.
Ford Motor Co. will pay its U.S. factory workers a $6,000 signing bonus and add thousands of U.S. factory jobs as part of a four-year contract deal reached Tuesday with the United Auto Workers union.
In a Sept. 23 story about Ford CEO Alan Mulally, The Associated Press erroneously reported the company's 2006 net loss. The loss was $12.6 billion, not $17 billion.
Chrysler is unlikely to reach an agreement on a new contract with the United Auto Workers before a midnight deadline Wednesday.
In exchange for an agreement to create 5,100 union jobs in the U.S., General Motors will hire thousands of less expensive employees and try to replace some longtime workers.
Car sales likely slowed in August because of fewer discounts, worries about the economy and Hurricane Irene, which shut East Coast dealerships during the final weekend of the month.
Auto sales rose only slightly in July as skittish consumers pulled back on car buying and threatened to derail the industry's fragile recovery.
Auto sales were expected to rise only slightly in July, adding to concerns in the industry that Americans are pulling back on car buying.
Car buyers kept visiting dealerships in July, but not in big enough numbers to shake the auto industry's unease about its recovery.
Car shoppers worried about the U.S. economy last month and that kept sales in a funk.
Ford's ambitious plans to grow in Asia took a toll on its second-quarter profit, with higher costs to design and sell cars offsetting rising sales.
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