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General Motors improved its earnings in North America, making $1.7 billion in its home market.
Ninety-five years ago, guns, bombs, airplane engines, boats, and even an early cruise missile were coming off Detroit's automotive lines.
Belvidere, Toluca and Toledo Supplier Park will join Jefferson North in staying open
Ford sales down 5 percent, GM down 8 percent, Chrysler up 20 percent.
The automaker plans to add 877 people at its Montgomery, Ala., assembly plant so it can run a third shift to make more Sonata midsize sedans and Elantra compact cars.
The first Ford dealers have been officially certified to sell the company's first all-electric car -- the 2012 Ford Focus Electric -- America's most fuel-efficient five-seater with an EPA rating of 110 MPGe city that is capable of being recharged in nearly half the time as Nissan Leaf.
You might want to start planning some alternate routes now, because a portion of I-96 between Telegraph and Newburgh Roads will shut down completely in 2014 for reconstruction.
Chrysler plans to open an office in downtown Detroit with room for 70 employees that includes space for the automaker's CEO Sergio Marchionne.
BMW North America has probably had to deal with periodic lawsuits for a variety of reasons, but this one may be a first for the company.
200 workers at Dakkota Integrated Systems in Ontario walked off the job at midnight after rejecting a new contract over the weekend.
"Toyota Tacoma: I'd recommend it to anyone." - Mike and his Toyota Tacoma
All families are not created alike, so it stands to reason that all family cars shouldn't be alike either.
Ford is reporting that its net income fell by nearly half in the first quarter, as European sales plummeted and the company paid higher taxes.