Hundreds of Chrysler Group LLC dealers are at risk of closure within a month, caught in a dispute between their former finance company and their new lender.
Mayor Dave Bing is now being chauffeured in a $59,205 Yukon XL Denali delivered to the city on Wednesday, a move that is drawing criticism from unions and his rival in the Nov. 3 election.
Leaders of the Canadian Auto Workers union left a six-hour meeting with Chrysler Group LLC executives with substantially more optimism about the future of the automaker than they had going in.
Detroit's automakers are finding new uses for worn-out jeans, discarded plastic bottles and manufacturing rubbish -- they're recycling them for use in new vehicle parts.
They are royalty: Elegant, refined and just a touch snobby. They think they are better than us. And really, they are. Even their name has an acceptable amount of arrogance in it. Aston Martin.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters demonstrated Friday at Southfield Dodge Chrysler Jeep, one of 15 Michigan dealershipsand 70 nationwide where the union staged protests as part of its campaign to protect the jobs of union car haulers.
Union car haulers are angry with Chrysler Group LLC for shifting some work to nonunion companies to save money, and they fear General Motors Co. may follow suit.