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Aston Martin poaches potential Ghosn successor from Renault-Nissan
The senior executive merry-go-round at the Renault-Nissan Alliance keeps whirling at high speed, now with the departure of Andy Palmer, executive vice president and top vehicle planner, to become the...
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Car companies pull up stakes
In an earlier time it would be considered heresy: General Motors GM Cadillac is thinking about moving its sales and marketing operations from Detroit toof all placesManhattan. Cadillac, after all, is...
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Automakers report a mixed bag of September sales
It was a mixed bag for car sales in September, with some carmakers seeing continued growth, while others saw sales skid. A total of 1.24 million units were sold last month. Chrysler sold 169,890...
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Car fuel efficiency hits historic high with Mazda, Nissan leading way
Automakers raised the fuel efficiency of their new models last year to record levels, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But they still fall far short of President Obamas goal 54.5 miles...
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Nissan’s turn from the eccentric to the mainstream
Critics have been stretching to find just the right words to describe the Juke, a small crossover made by Nissan. When the updated 2015 model was shown at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November,...
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17 auto predictions for 2015, fearless and feckless
Despite car and truck sales that motored past 16 million for the first time since 2007, recalls dominated the news for most of the year. General Motors GM held center stage, dealing with cascading...
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Ghosn: Renault-Nissan’s Ghosn: The pressure is going to be on the cities to...
Talking to CNNMoney’s Poppy Harlow, Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renaul-Nissan, downplayed concerns that his big bet on electric vehicles will be harmed by a lack of charging spots. In this chicken-and-egg...
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How Nissan zoomed to the front of the pack
Japan's auto industry has been battered by disasters natural and unnatural unlike this year. A tragic earthquake and a steroidal yen have wreaked havoc on the bottom lines of major firms Honda and...
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“Achtung” meets “Mais oui” in Tennessee
This year may be remembered for Franco-German cooperation. While both countries’ leaders try to hold the Eurozone together, French car company Renault will be working with the German Mercedes-Benz to...
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Can Infiniti recreate the Audi miracle?
Johan de NysschenBy poaching the head of Audi in the U.S., Nissan Motor may finally have found the key executive to lead the turnaround of Infiniti, the Japanese automaker's perennially lagging luxury...
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6 cars from the 2014 Geneva Auto Show – and why they’re key
Some may never hit the U.S. market, but these vehicles show where the industry is headed.
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GM is least popular automaker among U.S. suppliers
FORTUNE — The bad news rolls on for General Motors GM . Already in trouble for delaying the recall of defective car parts, the company has earned another ignominious distinction: The “least preferred”...
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Tesla’s electric car is the Chrysler minivan of the future
Tesla TSLA just gave away all its patents - and it's a genius move. The electric carmaker has been in danger of becoming a pioneering company in a small niche of the automobile market. No matter how...
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Ghosn-Zetsche bromance key to Nissan-Mercedes automaking alliance
In the early 1990s, a German executive running Daimler's U.S. truck operations happened to meet a French executive running Michelin's U.S. tire operations in South Carolina. The two were simpatico....
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Toyota, Nissan report higher sales, defying expectations
Two of Japan’s biggest automakers, Toyota TM and Nissan NSANY , reported higher year-over-year U.S. sales Tuesday. The results defied the expectations of some automotive experts who thought their...
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Nissan and Honda battle for second place
Toyota TM , the world's No. 1 automaker, also has enjoyed top-dog status among Japanese automakers since anyone can remember. The fight for second place in that group is getting fiercer of late, with...
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Infiniti’s loss of De Nysschen expected to benefit GM’s Cadillac
Johan de Nysschen's recruitment from Audi to run Nissan's Infiniti luxury automotive brand nearly two years ago was a major coup for Nissan and its chief executive officer, Carlos Ghosn. Later today,...
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Toyota revs up its internal combustion engine
Toyota stole a march on the global automotive industry by popularizing gas-electric hybrid engines, using its Prius brand to highlight the technology. But now that the Prius and hybrids are permanent...
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By going big on luxury, will Cadillac outshine Mercedes?
Mercedes-Benz has a C Class, B Class and S Class; Audi an A4, A6 and A8; BMW a 3 Series, 5 Series and 7 Series - the tall, grande and venti sizes of luxury sedans. General Motors Co.'s Cadillac, with...
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Aston Martin poaches potential Ghosn successor from Renault-Nissan
The senior executive merry-go-round at the Renault-Nissan Alliance keeps whirling at high speed, now with the departure of Andy Palmer, executive vice president and top vehicle planner, to become the...
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