Dakkota Is Closing Its Kettering Dash-Panel Plant After Six Years. The Jeeps It Supplied Aren’t Going Anywhere.
Detroit, Michigan and federal tax-credit investors backed Dakkota's plant on the old Kettering High School site. It closes Dec. 31…
Layoffs
Auto Tariffs Were Supposed to Keep Work in Michigan. A Sterling Heights Ford Supplier Just Cut 156 Jobs Anyway
JG Kern Enterprises is laying off 156 workers after Ford pulled its Lightning parts work, some of it reportedly to…
Ford Paid $10.5 Million in 2001 Over Grading Managers on a Curve. Now It’s Back in Court Over Job Bias.
A Sept. 28 federal employment-discrimination suit against Ford lands nearly 25 years after the company settled over grading managers on…
What’s Left of Hethel After Tariffs Took a Sledgehammer to Lotus
At the end of August 2025, Lotus told its British staff that up to 550...
ZF Is Ending 120 Years of Steering Production in Lafayette. The Engineers Get to Stick Around.
ZF's WARN notice counts 133 jobs at its Lafayette steering plant, down from about 200 a year earlier, while the…
Goodyear Is Getting Out of the Chemical Business for Good, Closing Its Last Plants in New York and Texas
Goodyear has spent the past few years selling off anything that doesn’t roll on a...
Volkswagen Cut a Shift on the Line That Builds Its Best-Selling U.S. Model. Puebla’s Strike Deadline Is Friday.
Volkswagen cut a shift on the Puebla line that builds its best-selling U.S. model. Workers rejected a 10.04% offer tied…
This 130-Year-Old German Supplier Made Parts Every EV Still Needs. It Filed for Insolvency Anyway.
Prinz-Mayweg made seat, dashboard and steering tubes that electric cars still need. Its insolvency shows what is really squeezing German…
JLR’s Suppliers Want Out of Cars and Into Aerospace. The Hard Part Isn’t the Metal.
JLR's Midlands suppliers want help moving into aerospace and defence. Their letter is really a forecast about UK car volume,…
CarMax Gave Up $230 a Car to Win Buyers Back. Headquarters Is Paying the Bill.
CarMax just cut 145 more corporate jobs. Its SEC filings suggest the real story is a pricing bet, and the…
Volkswagen’s Old Beetle Factory Is About to Build Iron Dome Parts. The Real Story Is Why It Had To.
Volkswagen just agreed to sell a car factory to an Israeli investment firm so it...
Jaguar Land Rover Is Cutting 4,000 Jobs, and Somehow Not One Is on the Assembly Line
Jaguar Land Rover just confirmed it is eliminating 4,000 jobs, roughly one in ten people...
Audi’s 7,500 Job Cuts: What Brussels Sale And VW’s 2030 Plan Reveal
A Belgian real estate group bought the corpse of Audi Brussels on Tuesday, September 1....
Volkswagen Is Killing Seat To Save Its Own Spinoff — and Just Admitted To 2,600 Different Car Seat Designs
Volkswagen's plan to halve its lineup by 2030 also kills the Seat brand — and reveals a stranger number buried…
Canada Paid Stellantis $222 Million To Save A Jeep Plant. The Jeep Went To Illinois Anyway
When Unifor and Stellantis sat down in Toronto on September 1 to open contract talks...