The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and U.S. auto dealers appear to have a framework for defusing a squabble over loan discrimination. There were plenty of fireworks at a Nov. 12 Senate Banking Committee hearing and a Nov. 14 ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 27

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and U.S. auto dealers appear to have a framework for defusing a squabble over loan discrimination. There were plenty of fireworks at a Nov. 12 Senate Banking Committee hearing and a Nov. 14 ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 25

The Detroit 3 have in recent years stopped dumping surplus cars into daily rental fleets and repurchasing them at pre-set prices. That has shifted more of the financial risk of resale to fleet operators, which have developed more outlets ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 18

Five years ago this month, the North American auto industry was in desperate straits. It was maybe the scariest stretch of the recession. Coming weeks after Lehman Bros.' failure and months before the General Motors and Chrysler ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 11

There are encouraging developments in a new Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu survey of suppliers ranking the purchasing operations of 14 North American automakers. For starters, suppliers considered "openness to new ideas" as the most ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 11

From all the vehicle safety recalls that get reported on the nightly news, you might think that cars and trucks are becoming more dangerous. The number of recalls has risen in each decade since the first federal auto safety law was ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 28

Self-driving cars are all the rage, with almost daily demonstrations of the latest advances by automakers and suppliers. But before shifting control of vehicles from individual drivers to artificial intelligence, the auto industry must ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 21

A slight rise in interest rates from extreme lows will affect everything from auto and dealer floorplan loans to long-term debt for automakers and suppliers. But that should be only a modest challenge to an industry that has already ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 21

Chrysler Group must tell its dealer body plainly how it intends to market Alfa Romeo in the United States. That has been in doubt since last month, when Harald Wester, CEO of Alfa Romeo and Maserati, said that when Alfa arrives, it ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 14

Automakers must come up with innovative ways to reverse a dangerous decline in the number of tool and die companies supplying the North American industry. Auto and vehicle parts manufacturing is booming. But the number of shops ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 14

Nine suppliers agreed to pay $740 million in fines after pleading guilty to federal bid-rigging charges in September. The U.S. Justice Department says the suppliers are cooperating with the department's ongoing antitrust investigation, ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 7

Automakers are rapidly adding manufacturing capacity in North America to meet growing demand. By Morgan Stanley's count, 3.5 million units of capacity will be added from 2011 through 2015. Some analysts say that that is too ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 7

Honda has taken its share of criticism in recent years for such uninspiring vehicles as the Crosstour and CR-Z and the 2012 Civic. And its powertrains -- the heart and soul of its identity -- have lacked innovation. For example, the ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 30

There's an ironic twist in Ford's attempts to avoid the "chicken tax," the notorious 25 percent tariff on imported light trucks. That tariff, imposed in 1963 in retaliation for a German tariff on American chicken, was intended to protect ... 12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 30