Volkswagen picked Chattanooga over rival sites in two other states for a new U.S. assembly plant expected to create about 2,000 jobs. ...more

July 16, 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

Toyota is introducing a plug-in hybrid with next-generation lithium-ion batteries in Japan, the United States and Europe by 2010, under a widespread strategy to be green outlined Wednesday. ...more

June 12, 2008

Honda will sell a new, improved and affordable gas-electric hybrid in the United States, Japan and Europe starting in early 2009, underlining the Japanese automaker's commitment to "green" technology, the company president said Wednesday. ...more

May 22, 2008

Honda's new hydrogen-powered vehicle, set for leasing within a few months, radically reduced the sizes of its fuel cell and motor, leaving the same interior space as a regular car, engineers said. ...more

May 19, 2008

Battered by a slumping North American auto market and unfavorable currency swings, Toyota is forecasting a double barrel of bad news this fiscal year: its first year-on-year sales slide in nine years and first profit slip in seven years. ...more

May 9, 2008

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to recall about 90,000 Highlander sport utility vehicles in the United States. ...more

May 3, 2008

When thousands of U.S. auto dealers gather in San Francisco this weekend, much of the talk will be about just getting through 2008. ...more

February 9, 2008

All major automakers except for General Motors Corp. saw their U.S. sales drop in January to start what industry analysts have predicted will be the worst auto sales year in the United States in more than a decade. ...more

February 2, 2008

Toyota may have fallen short of General Motors in global vehicle sales last year, but it has beaten its U.S. rival in another measure - global vehicle production. ...more

January 29, 2008