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...
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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…
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...
Chinese Automakers Might Build in Mexico, and Nissan Is Bracing for It. Don’t Expect Those Cars to Cross the Border.
Nissan has been Mexico’s sales heavyweight for so long that it’s easy to forget how...
Inside BMW’s Bavarian Gen6 Pack Plant Powering the Electric i3 Sedan
BMW just switched on a roughly €1 billion battery plant in the Lower Bavarian farmland...
Stellantis Is Grading Its Quality Fix on Three-Month-Old Cars. The €4.1 Billion Bill Is for Older Ones.
Stellantis booked €4.1 billion in 2025 for defects in vehicles it had already shipped. The quality metric it now reports…
The Company That Builds the Silverado Just Shipped Its First Patriot Missile Parts
GM Defense delivered PAC-3 MSE housings to Lockheed Martin 22 days after signing a contract. A seven-year missile ramp wants…