Just a few years ago, I would question the value of any navigation system. The cost didn't justify the benefit. Why would anyone pay a few thousand dollars for a digital map -- especially when you could buy a high-tech, hand-held system for a few hundred dollars or a paper one for 99 cents?
Potential suitors for General Motors Co.'s Saab Automobile are surfacing a week after the collapse of a deal to sell the Swedish carmaker to Koenigsegg Group.
Russia will take on the bulk of the effort to restructure AvtoVAZ, its biggest automaker, under the terms of an accord signed Friday between AvtoVAZ's Russian shareholders and Renault SA.
Washington -- The Obama administration's top auto adviser expects General Motors Co. to make an initial public offering of its stock by the end of 2010.
Frankfurt -- Germany's Volkswagen AG today announced plans to invest $3.5 billion in Brazil and said it hopes to be building a million vehicles a year in the country by 2014.
Tokyo -- Honda Motor Co. set record production in Asia and China in October for the second straight month, leading a gradual and spotty recovery at Japanese automakers.
General Motors Co. built the last Pontiac for the U.S. market Wednesday: a white, G6 sedan that rolled off the assembly line in Orion Township around 12:45 p.m.
Washington -- President Barack Obama will propose a sweeping, global reduction in greenhouse gas emissions when he attends a climate change conference next month.
