A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday temporarily halted the prosecution of lawsuits filed by Hawaii, New Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands against Japanese auto-parts supplier Takata over its lethally defective air bag inflators. Judge Brendan Shannon ordered the 90-day stay after hearing arguments last ...
German's major automakers were accused in a U.S. lawsuit of acting as a cartel, colluding for nearly two decades to limit the pace of technological advances in their vehicles and stifle competition — allegations that widen the scope of the latest scandal to hit ...
Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a preteen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening to see a sky that glowed unnaturally. Azerine Jones is a retired baker. But in 1967 she was the 12-year-old ...
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday, officials said. As the automaker's biggest factory in Europe is in France, Toyoda is thought to have briefed Macron on the company's contribution to the French economy and employment ...
South Korean engineer Kim Gwang-ho flew to Washington last year to do something he never dreamed he would: report alleged safety lapses at Hyundai Motor Co., his employer of 26 years, to U.S. regulators. Citing an internal report from Hyundai's quality strategy team to management, ...
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. on Saturday officially changed its corporate name to Subaru Corp., the name of its most popular car brand, to enhance its image and boost sales as it marks 100 years since its founding. "By changing the company name, we're making a ...
The nation's carmakers in February logged their largest domestic output in nearly three years, it was learned Wednesday. According to data from the automakers, the combined domestic output by eight major makers rose 12.5 percent from a year earlier to 810,994 vehicles in the reporting ...
The CEO who revived an ailing Nissan showed an insular, change-averse Japan Inc. that there is another way.
Toyota Motor Corp. has lost its crown as the world's best-selling automaker to Volkswagen AG, ending a four-year reign that saw emerging challenges ranging from the threat of U.S. trade barriers to slowing demand in China after a tax increase. Worldwide sales for Toyota, including ...
U.S. President Donald Trump urged the chief executives of the Big Three U.S. automakers on Tuesday to build more cars in the country, pressing his pledge to bring jobs to America and discourage the car industry from investing in Mexico. Trump, who has threatened to ...
Takata Corp. on Friday agreed to plead guilty to criminal wrongdoing and to pay $1 billion to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into ruptures of its air bag inflators linked to at least 16 deaths worldwide. The deal was announced hours after prosecutors in ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's tweet criticizing Toyota Motor Corp.'s plan to build a new car plant in Mexico for exports to the North American market — threatening a heavy border tax if the top Japanese automaker goes ahead with the plan — is an ...
