If the auto industry wants to preserve NAFTA, then automakers and suppliers ought to offer something in return: good jobs for skilled workers.

Ford has installed a “visionary” as its CEO. But without enough focus to go with that vision, Ford may end up just spinning its wheels.

Racing is the soul and maybe even the starting point of the auto industry. That's why this issue of Automotive News is dedicated to the sport of automobile racing.

States should use their portion of the $2.7 billion Environmental Mitigation Trust fund for reducing air pollution.

The deaths of four people, with eight more hospitalized, at Lynnway Auto Auction outside Boston should be a wake-up call to the industry.

It's increasingly clear that U.S. auto sales have peaked after an impressive seven years of growth.

With sales figures like it has, it ought to be China — not the U.S., Europe or Japan — that dictates the future of what we call global vehicles.

There's nothing inherently wrong with fleet sales. The problem arises when you mismanage the opportunity.

The 840-hp Dodge Challenger SRT Demon from Fiat Chrysler is so inherently dangerous to the common safety of motorists that its registration as a road-worthy automobile should be banned.

We've never seen a U.S. strategy like the one PSA Group -- maker of Peugeots and Citroens -- has embarked on.

Dealer-factory relations have always been uneasy in the auto industry, but a relentless fixation on new-vehicle volumes is creating fresh tensions.

When r&d executives at big automotive companies say there's no end in sight to all the spending needed to do everything the industry wants to do, we believe them. Stirring the global business are new safety technologies, autonomous drive strategies, new concepts in mobility and the industry's efforts to improve fuel economy.

This year's list of Automotive News Rising Stars shows that one way or another, the car industry is now getting its share of the modern whiz kids. Congratulations to the industry for attracting them.

In the name of saving coal-mining jobs - which electric utilities say won't be saved anyway - President President Donald Trump has turned his back on the skilled workers of the auto industry who are on the front lines of improving the quality of the air and America's global competitiveness.

Wall Street still harbors its doubts about General Motors, but CEO Mary Barra's leadership team deserves credit for making considerable progress on one of the business world's most daunting challenges: fixing GM's deep-seated, dysfunctional culture.

Volkswagen's concept of responsibility for its misdeeds seems to tail off the further up the corporate ladder investigators go.

Today's GM can act more decisively because its finances are not only more stable, but also more transparent. Thanks to an accounting system overhaul that Dan Ammann spearheaded as CFO, GM has much clearer intelligence on the performance of its various markets, subsidiaries and product lines.