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For most people, self-driving cars are a relatively recent concept popularized by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and videos of a blind man riding in a little pod car from Waymo. But like most overnight sensations, this is an idea that has been years, in fact,…

When Jim Hackett was brought in to replace Mark Fields as CEO just over three years ago, he was never expected to have a particularly long tenure. He was already 62 and had served and retired as CEO of Steelcase SCS before serving as interim athletic…

Americans have been in a mad rush to trade whatever they’ve been driving for an SUV-like vehicle over the past half-decade. But just because those high-riding wagon-ish vehicles may have been the choice of the crowd, that doesn’t necessarily mean…

In the U.S. car market pickup trucks are where you’ll find the real money and sales volumes. For the past four decades, the number one selling vehicle overall has been the Ford F-Series and it’s on a pace for more than 850,000 sales in 2018. It’s…

Electric vehicles are already vastly more efficient at converting energy to motion than internal combustion engines. Nonetheless, as batteries remain stubbornly expensive and bulky, there are efforts to improve on that efficiency. To that end, Bosch,…

Cars are apparently a dying breed at Ford Motor Company with one distinct exception, the Mustang. While domestic Mustang sales have declined since the debut of the current generation for the car’s 50th anniversary in 2014, the expansion of its global…

Now that Qualcomm’s multi-year effort to acquire NXP has been abandoned, the Dutch chipmaker is taking some of the $2 billion breakup fee it got to grow its core business. Already the leading semiconductor supplier to the auto industry, NXP is…

For several decades now, the sprawling General Motors assembly plant that straddles the border of Detroit and Hamtramck has been officially known as the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center. Within GM and the larger community, it is more often referred…

The F-150 is to Ford Motor Company what the iPhone is to Apple AAPL . It’s part of a whole suite of products, but in terms of revenue and profit, it really stands alone and by a wide margin. On the eve of launching a redesigned version of the best…

For the better part of the past decade or maybe longer, the Acura division of Honda Motor Company went through a serious identity crisis. As Honda products have traditionally been, Acuras were well built and reliable. However, aside from being…