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A Democratic Congress, unwilling or unable to approve a $25 billion bailout for Detroit's Big Three, appears ready to punt the automakers' fate to a lame-duck Republican president.

Gleaming new Mercedes cars roll one by one out of a huge container ship here and onto a pier.

While U.S. automakers plead for emergency loans from Washington, China's still-young car manufacturers are also appealing for their government's help amid a sales slump.

Reeling from a relentless sales slide, Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it would stop all of its North American factories for two days next month, while rival Nissan Motor Co renewed its pessimism over the ...

Beaudry RV Co. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in what the company says is mainly a bid to restructure its debt.

Detroit's Big Three automakers pleaded with a reluctant Congress Tuesday for a $25 billion lifeline to save the once-proud titans of U.S. industry, pointedly warning of a national economic catastrophe should ...

EU sources said the European Commission would propose ways of helping the auto sector in the 27-nation bloc next week as part of a broad package of economic stimulus measures to deal with the worst financial ...

Colorado car dealers say they're laying off workers because sales are plummeting, and they want Congress to step in to keep U.S. automakers afloat.

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Ford Motor Co, scrambling for cash as the U.S. Big Three automakers struggle to stay alive, will end 12 years of control of Mazda Motor Corp through the sale of a 20 percent stake in the Japanese carmaker for ...

Judging from the lobbying lineup, legislation to bail out the auto industry should be assured of passage.

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has announced plans to close 23 used car dealerships across the city.

New cars are supposed to be the main attraction when the Los Angeles Auto Show kicks off Wednesday, but dreadful U.S. sales, bailout hearings in Congress, and General Motors' decision to all but pull out of the ...

Auto sales by European giant Volkswagen slumped in October but held up better than the market as a whole, figures show.

Car buyers are enjoying record discounts, with dealers cutting nearly 2,000 from the price of the average new vehicle, a survey discloses today.

New Bern Mazda Suzuki on U.S. 70 closed this week because of low recent sales, a general manager said Wednesday afternoon.

The failure of one or more of the Big Three automakers would put a huge initial dent in American manufacturing, but in time foreign car companies would pick up the slack by stepping up production in their ...

Dragged down by plummeting automobile sales, retail sales fell by a record amount in October, the Commerce Department reported on Friday.

Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner said Sunday. "This is an issue of the whole auto industry, if that becomes under severe pressure, the impact on the whole U.S. economy will be devastating," Mr.

German carmaker Opel, a unit of troubled US giant General Motors, said on Friday it has asked Berlin and regional states for credit guarantees to ensure its financing.