With competition in pursuit, Ford aims to keep police car crown; anti-stab seats come standard Ford Motor Co. wants to remain the top gun in the U.S. police car market with a new cruiser due out next year, but its competitors are ...
Biographical information about GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz NAME: Robert A. "Bob" Lutz AGE: 78. Born Feb. 12, 1932, in Zurich, Switzerland. EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in production management, University of California-Berkeley, 1961; master's degree in business administration, University of California-Berkeley, 1962. MILITARY: ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The parent of China's Geely Automobile <0175.HK> has secured financing to buy Ford-owned Volvo cars for about 15 billion Swedish crowns ($2.10 billion), a Swedish business daily reported on Wednesday. Dagens Industri, citing sources, said that Chinese financial institutions ...
Ford launches Figo compact, hopes for cool entry into India's hot auto market Ford Motor Co. launched its first made-for-India compact car Tuesday, as the U.S. automaker continues its push into fast-growing Asian markets. The four-door Figo, Italian for "cool," is the ...
Auto giant Ford launched its bid to enter India's lucrative small car market on Tuesday, unveiling a brand new model to compete with international rivals from General Motors, Volkswagen and Hyundai. The Figo, which will be made at Ford's plant in the ...
Moody's raises TRW Automotive's debt ratings, citing 4Q profit and production uptick Moody's Investors Service on Thursday raised auto supplier TRW Automotive Inc.'s debt ratings and upgraded its outlook to positive after a stronger than expected fourth-quarter performance and improving automotive production ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Global carmakers exporting from the euro zone ought to benefit from newfound weakness in the currency but auto executives at the Geneva Autoshow agree the 10-percent drop over the last three months is hard to handle. Luxury car marque ...
February US auto sales better than expected despite snow, Toyota; Ford bests GM Automakers plowed through a snowy February to better-than-expected sales, and new incentives led by beleaguered Toyota will keep the momentum going into spring. Despite some analysts' predictions of single-digit ...
DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales stalled in February as a safety crisis sent Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> <TM.N> reeling, allowing Ford Motor Co <F.N> to leap into the industry's top spot for the first time since 1998. To battle the fall-off ...
Ford Motor Co. overtook rival General Motors in US sales Tuesday as Toyota faltered amid a series of mass recalls and a congressional investigation into its safety standards. Toyota reported an 8.7 percent drop in February US sales to 100,027 vehicles, while ...
