automakers

There was a time when auto manufacturers measured their strength by how much they could do alone. But erstwhile competitors are now finding it critical to team up on projects.

Automakers like BMW have used full hybrid technology to give high performance luxury cars like the 5-Series a gas mileage boost without compromising on performance.

As cars become ever more vibrant entertainment centers, automakers find themselves having to build safety features to prevent drivers from crashing their smartphone on wheels.

Automakers are flooding the Detroit auto show with new hybrid and plug-in models, but the combination of gas prices below $4 a gallon and higher upfront costs for the cars is not attracting consumers.

The union is staking its future on the kind of struggle it hasn't waged since the 1930s: a massive drive to organize hostile factories owned by foreign automakers. 

Ford is hoping history can repeat itself with the upcoming launch of the next-generation Fusion four-door.

It took Detroit’s automakers decades to win a money-saving two-tier wage structure from the United Auto Workers Union.

Government officials called for the country’s automakers to shift away from making more cars and toward producing more fuel-efficient and technologically advanced ones.

June 27 -- Klaus Paur, Shanghai-based managing director for Greater China at Synovate Motoresearch, an industry consultant, talks about the impact of Japan's March 11 record earthquake on the nation's automakers.

For the first time in 80 years or so, major automakers are building and selling plug-in electric cars in the U.S.