November car sales numbers are coming in and they’re what you expect them to be — horrendous. Ford is down 31% month-to-month with last year. Toyota fell even further at 33.9% . That's successful compared to GM's 41% drop . Even Honda is down 31.6% . What's going on? Carpocalypse Now...

Filed under: Chrysler, LLC. , Ford , GM After years of incremental improvement in customer satisfaction, a study from the University of Michigan shows that overall, Detroit automakers have declined versus their Japanese and German rivals. The study, which polls customers with six-month-old to three-year...

Today's the first of the month, the day the world finds out what sales numbers look like for the US market for June. With Automotive News using words like "carnage" to describe what those numbers will look like, we probably shouldn't expect a whole lot of happy faces in the boardrooms...

Filed under: Maintenance , Recalls/TSBs , Safety , Chrysler , Ford , GM , Honda , Nissan , Toyota , Volkswagen Problems with older vehicles have helped recalls jump 25% from 2006 to 2007, with over 14 million owners receiving the dreaded notice this year. Topping this year's list with 5.5 million...

Filed under: Car Buying , Etc. , Earnings/Financials It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - it was 2007. Topping the sales figures for the year that almost was are mainly service vehicles, while the more ostentatious, less useful cars round out the bottom-feeder roster. Family cars at...

Filed under: Car Buying , Plants/Manufacturing , Chrysler , Ford , GM , Honda , Nissan , Toyota This time last year some analysts were saying that a downturn in auto sales was around the corner. Well, it looks like those chaps were right on the money, as 2007 is projected to finish with 16 million sales...

Filed under: LA Auto Show , Podcasts , SEMA , Coupes , Hybrids/Alternative , Trucks/Pickups , Green , Tokyo Motor Show , Ford , GM , Honda , Pontiac , Toyota Now here's something worth giving thanks over. The podcast makes its return in time for you to load it on your iPod for the drive over the...

We understand why Onion News Network anchor Brandon Armstrong is arguing so passionately for the existence of flying cars and it may seem mean for GM, Ford and Toyota to dash his hopes so stupendously -- but Brandon's barking up the wrong tree. If Brandon covered the cult of cars as obsessively as we...

Filed under: Government/Legal You might recall about this time last year, California State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a lawsuit in Northern California's U.S. District Court asserting that automakers selling vehicles in the Golden State were liable for the hundreds of millions of dollars of damages...

Filed under: Etc. , Plants/Manufacturing , Chrysler , Ford , GM , Honda , Volkswagen A series of recent bombings targeting natural gas pipelines in southern Mexico has now caused five carmakers to halt production in the country. The attacks have apparently been the work of the Popular Revolutionary Army...