Lexus once again stands alone atop a closely watched ranking of vehicle dependability after Buick slipped from the No. 1 spot it shared with the Japanese luxury brand last year, J.D. Power and Associates said Thursday. ...more

August 8, 2008

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Thursday cut its ratings for all three of the U.S.-based automakers further into junk status, citing worries about their mounting cash losses and the continued deterioration of the U.S. auto market. ...more

August 1, 2008

Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic. ...more

July 25, 2008

When Ford Motor Co. came out with its new Edge crossover in 2006, the company hoped the trucklike vehicle built on a car frame would attract longtime Ford buyers trading in their inefficient sport utility vehicles. ...more

July 15, 2008

Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. said June sales plunged as gasoline prices above $4 a gallon drove consumers away from fuel-thirsty trucks. ...more

July 2, 2008

Faced with a continuing plunge in pickup and sport utility vehicle sales, Ford Motor Co. on Friday tried to deal with the mess by delaying production of the new F-150 pickup and announcing further factory cuts. ...more

June 21, 2008

The Toyota Camry and Corolla sedans each outsold the traditionally top-selling Ford F-series truck in May, a sign of the rapid shift in customers' preferences from trucks and SUVs to small cars that is forcing painful production cuts and plant closures at General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. ...more

June 4, 2008

General Motors is closing four truck and SUV plants in the United States, Canada and Mexico, affecting 10,000 workers, as surging fuel prices hasten a dramatic shift to smaller vehicles. ...more

June 4, 2008

Those Jetsons - the forward-looking cartoon family of the 1960s - were on to something with their bubbly, teardrop-shaped space car. ...more

June 2, 2008

American automakers have been making the shift to more fuel-efficient vehicles, but consumers have been making the move even faster - to hybrids and high-mileage models made overseas. Gas prices have accelerated the move away from trucks and sport utility vehicles at a furious pace, leaving the Big Three at the most critical crossroads in 30 years. ...more

May 31, 2008