Cars

Tony Joseph Photo credit: TOM WOROBEC DETROIT — McLaren North America President Tony Joseph has been with the brand since it set up shop nine years ago, leading its growth from a fledging operation to […]

Trump’s tariff rhetoric risks hurting consumer confidence and undermining the U.S. auto market, said Cody Lusk, president of the American International Automobile Dealers Association. Ask auto dealers what they make of Donald Trump threatening to […]

LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO — Electric car maker Tesla Inc’s move last week to cut 9 percent of its workforce will sharply downsize the residential solar business it bought two years ago in a controversial $2.6 […]

Bidders, clutch your paddles: One of the first Ferrari 250 GTOs ever built will be offered up for auction during Monterey Car Week, courtesy of RM Sotheby’s. Initial estimates say that this GTO, chassis #3413 GT, […]

The CityAirbus flying taxi is one of several mobility solutions Airbus is working on. BERLIN — Germany, land of the no-holds-barred Autobahn, is pushing the next level of transportation: flying cars. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government […]

About 720 employees, 666 hourly and 54 salaried, will move to the new center in 2019 after its completion. Photo credit: General Motors BURTON, Mich. — General Motors, with an eye toward a more fuel […]

A Mercedez-Benz dealership in downtown Shanghai in August 2014. Daimler is one of the biggest global companies to cut its profit outlook and blame smoldering trade tensions. Photo credit: REUTERS FRANKFURT — Daimler warned profit […]

Volvo workers assemble the S60 at the automaker’s new U.S. plant in South Carolina. CHARLESTON, S.C. — Volvo will extend its global manufacturing footprint with the inauguration on Wednesday of its U.S. plant. The automaker […]

Earlier this month, Angus MacKenzie’s story “Tesla Killers: Rise of the E-Machines” detailed the headwinds that will face Elon Musk’s enterprise as mainstream automakers ready some 50-plus new battery-electric vehicles for production by 2025. Not […]

Trump: “We can no longer be the stupid country. We want to be the smart country.” WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Tuesday progress was being made in slow-moving talks to update the NAFTA […]