A Detroit Shop Allegedly Moved $80,000 in Ford Rouge Parts Stolen Over Seven Saturdays. Four Men Now Have to Hand Over Their Passports
Four men were arraigned Tuesday in Michigan’s 19th District Court in a Rouge Plant parts...
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Volkswagen CFO Says ‘We Cannot Afford to Lose Any Time’ After a €5.86 Billion Q3 Operating Loss, Then Cites Tariffs and EV Margins
Volkswagen Group posted a third-quarter operating loss of €5.86 billion, against a loss of €1.3...
A 5,500-Gallon Chemical Leak Near Jeep’s Toledo Wrangler Plant Forced a 1-Mile Evacuation, Then Stellantis Canceled Two Shifts
Toledo Fire & Rescue ordered everyone within a mile of 1266 Progress Ave. in North...
Audi’s $4 Billion Georgia Plant Is Sized for 200,000 Cars. Audi Sold 164,942 in America Last Year
Audi’s planned Georgia plant is built for up to 200,000 vehicles a year, more than its entire 2025 U.S. volume,…
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…
Japanese-Owned Ohio Supplier Murotech Settles PPP Size Claims for $3 Million
Small business is a slippery label when your parent company sits on the other side...
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…
Honda’s Ohio EPA Filing Reveals Proposed Union County Hybrid Plant
Automakers usually announce new plants with a ribbon, a governor, and a big check. Honda’s...
Argentina Signed Off on Toyota’s $1.3 Billion ‘Electrified’ Plant. Toyota Still Hasn’t Said What Goes in It.
Argentina granted Toyota 30 years of tax and customs stability for an unnamed electrified vehicle at Zárate. Toyota's final approval,…
A Couple in Their 80s and 90s Sued Scout Over Blasting at Its $2 Billion Plant. Scout Says Take It Up With the Contractors.
A Blythewood couple, 92 and 84, say construction of Scout Motors’ South Carolina plant drove them from their home. Scout…
GM Is Yanking the Silverado 1500 Out of Canada, and Oshawa Is Going All-In on Heavy-Duty
For a few years, Oshawa Assembly could claim something no other GM truck plant in...
Hyundai Hides Its Hybrid Motors Inside the Transmission. Georgia’s Getting $560 Million to Build More of Them.
Hyundai Transys will spend nearly $560 million in West Point, Georgia, to build more hybrid transmissions, the part that holds…
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...
The Next Honda CR-V Hybrid Is Reportedly Running Late, and So Is Honda’s Plan for a Cheaper Hybrid
Nikkei reports Honda's redesigned CR-V hybrid won't start U.S. mass production until May or later. That delays the first payoff…
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…