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Michelle Krebs, veteran automotive-industry authority, joins Edmunds editors, analysts and data experts to provide news and commentary.
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Ford Reports $2.3 Billion Net Profit, $424-Million Operating Loss

Jul 23, 2009
Ford Motor Co. reported a net profit of $2.3 billion in the second quarter, thanks to a one-time special gain. However, the automaker continues to lose money in its operations. Ford said Thursday its net profit was the result of a $2.8-bil...

Future of GM-Toyota NUMMI Plant Uncertain with GM Bankruptcy

Jun 2, 2009
General Motors may stop building cars at a factory it owns with Toyota in California, known as NUMMI, following  the Detroit-based carmaker's bankruptcy filing Monday, Bloomberg News reports. The only GM product the plant builds i...

Another Historic Event: Chrysler Begins Emerging from Bankruptcy

Jun 1, 2009
NEW YORK - A judge in the same New York City bankruptcy court where General Motors will file for Chapter 11 Monday has approved the sale of Chrysler assets to a group led by Italy's Fiat. Judge Arthur Gonzalez approved the asset transfer sa...

Feds' New MPG Mandate May Collide With Buyer Preferences

May 22, 2009
The Obama administration's "Kennedy moment" of announcing high-minded new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards of 39 miles per gallon for passenger cars and 30...

Saturn Files Separate Bankruptcy; Loses Lawsuit to N.J. Dealer

Nov 30, 1999
DETROIT - While General Motors filed bankruptcy on Monday, so too did its Saturn Corp., in a move that seems to set up Saturn for a buyer and, perhaps, to first cull its dealership network.

Get Ready for Leasing's Revival

Nov 23, 2009
Leasing may have been down, but it isn't out. After all but abandoning leasing for the past year, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC each have reported either a re-entry or expansion in the leasing business. And other...

As '09 Inventories Deplete, Who Will Blink First - Carmakers or Customers?

Nov 20, 2009
After the sales plunge in the auto market began in earnest in the fall of 2008, automakers scrambled to reduce production schedules, sell off swollen inventories and otherwise deal with a drastically contracting U.S. market. Now, after months of...

GM Sees 11 Million SAAR Month Possible for November

Nov 19, 2009
It's early, admit General Motors prognosticators, but November could hit a Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate of 11 million vehicle sales, making it the highest level this year outside of the Cash for Clunker months of July and August. GM's top...

GM Engineers Call Customers Who Returned Cars

Nov 19, 2009
At the request of General Motors' new chairman, Ed Whitacre, the automaker's top engineers are calling the couple hundred customers who are returning or exchanging their GM cars under the 60-day money-back guarantee policy to find out why. Mark...

Latest Hybrids Probably Won't Help Build the Market

Nov 19, 2009
In order to prod soccer moms across the nation to plug a visit to the BMW dealership into their Blackberrys, BMW North America Inc. this week nonchalantly announced the price for its first "full" hybrid-electric vehicle, the ActiveHybrid X6: $89,725. ...


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