auto makers

California's only auto plant is closing Thursday, adding 4,700 auto workers to the ranks of the unemployed, but an electric car company that has yet to build a car is asking for public support so it can save those jobs by using the labor to build electric cars. Aurica Motors wants to convert the...

Ford (NYSE:F) has been shopping its Volvo unit for months. Some Wall Street analysts thought the American car maker needed the money. Now that Ford's sales in the U.S. are improving, that may not be the case. Ford has done remarkably well, so why not another stroke of good luck in finding a buyer...

It's cheap, it's boxy, and it's apparently safe. Word has filtered out that the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car, just passed EU crash test standards. This raises a very interesting possibility. The Nano, which will cost less than $3,000, was originally targeted at the developing world. But...