The Chinese-owned startup is up and running as a bona fide premium carmaker, with a U.S. plant, a global supply chain and a different sort of pitch for interested suppliers.

An innovation in automotive-grade thermoplastics provided the Austrian company an opportunity to pursue new U.S. business with a $15 million plant in the Southeast.

The auto world is starting to show signs of stress cracks and fatigue — not an outright crisis, but at least moments of self-doubt after a decade of bullishness.

While Chinese automakers, buffeted by a prolonged U.S.-China trade battle, delay plans to launch sales in North America, China's auto suppliers, notably Yanfeng Automotive Interiors and Fuyao Glass America, are alive and well, and deepening their roots in the region, especially the industrial Midwest.

Here are the trends that will be top-of-mind in Traverse City this week: Lightweighting, an artificial intelligence wave and the coming cost squeeze

Greenfield auto plants are not on the horizon anytime soon, as the market softens and the cycle trends downward.

As the industry races toward cars that can safely drive themselves, it is also preparing for supply chains that can manage themselves.

An engine man from Porsche lit the fuse to launch a mechanical powertrain supplier's 18-year journey to electrification.

The Norwegian aluminum supplier has developed the alloy to take on steel for critical chassis parts.

The supplier came up with an insulation material that allowed GM to cut 13 pounds from the weight of each full-size pickup and SUV.

When ZF demonstrated its new external airbag in Germany, it was more than a variation on a familiar theme. The new game is all about predictive sensing.

You know your parts' failure rates. And your competitors know theirs. Now you can all know each others.

Our annual ranking of the top global suppliers reveals that as the industry’s main players build revenue, transform and change direction, they remain in much the same order of size as they were a year ago. There's a good reason why.

The Dutch aluminum giant Constellium wanted to get serious about the U.S. auto market, so it bought a plant that makes aluminum for beer cans.

The world's biggest vehicle battery supplier believes it has more growing to do, even as the industry shifts from the combustion engines that those batteries start.