Author: Automotive News Feed

Amid a lot of noise, Mary Barra has stayed quietly committed to a clearly articulated strategy, kept the egos on her executive team in check and delivered on key business objectives.

Black Friday hasn’t just taken over Thanksgiving weekend: Big sales run all month, especially in automakers’ and dealers’ marketing efforts.

The details are still being filled in, but no matter what turns up, this looks bad for Ghosn and his legacy at Nissan.

One of the driving themes at Shift is that we want to be a bridge between Silicon Valley and the traditional auto industry, helping them figure each other out.

2018 Automotive News All Star Woong-Chul Yang, vice chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, has overseen a blitz of new technologies while the company develops a new luxury brand with Genesis.

Carlos Ghosn was fired this week from his board chairmanship at Nissan after his arrest amid accusations of financial misdoings, in a stunning reminder of how much we don’t know about corporate executives.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CFO Richard Palmer, a 2018 Automotive News All Star, was the primary sounding board for the late CEO Sergio Marchionne.

Children may someday ride in self-driving school buses, but — as a Florida community learned the hard way — that mode of transportation is not yet ready.

Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association Senior Vice President Ann Wilson, a 2018 Automotive News All Star, spearheaded the group’s efforts to minimize disruptions for suppliers affected by trade changes and tariffs.

It’s too soon to call it a trend, but third-quarter subprime auto originations rose from the year earlier for the first time in more than two years, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and TransUnion said in separate reports last week.