Caution about the outlook for U.S. new-vehicle sales may be warranted, but overall conditions remain sound. Let's not worry ourselves into a slump.

What are we to make of reports that Tesla scrambled to reassemble mothballed factory equipment, overworked its staff, took out 300 welds and stopped a standard brake test as it raced to meet its goal?

Tesla and General Motors took on significant risk by getting ahead of the industry with electrified vehicles. They shouldn't be penalized for being first.

Dhivya Suryadevara, at 39, is the same age as former GM CEO Rick Wagoner when he was named CFO in 1992. Her appointment blazes a few new trails.

The UAW has new leadership, but an old problem to clean up before negotiations begin next year on new labor agreements with the Detroit 3.

A serious industry deserves a serious regulator, a person of good faith and proven integrity who embodies the responsibilities of public service and lives by at least a baseline standard of propriety.

At auctions and in the used-vehicle side of a dealership, if a dealer wants to try something that might work better, there are no factory constraints.

The Trump administration's national security investigation into the effect of auto imports is perhaps the most mind-boggling in a series of disorienting moves on global trade.

Later this week, hundreds of stock analysts and journalists from across the globe will gather in Balocco, Italy, to hear retiring Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne and his top lieutenants lay out the automaker's next five-year business plan — a plan that will be the first executed without Marchionne at the helm.

Automaker-supplier relations have dipped, according to the latest North American Automotive OEM-Supplier Working Relations Index. But why?

The prospect of reaching a consensus on setting a new national octane standard -- with benefits for the environment, fuel economy and vehicle performance -- is tantalizing indeed.

Given the history we've cataloged, we'd caution them to consider their options very carefully.