Unifor President Jerry Dias' top goal in negotiations with General Motors was to buck a trend: the shift of auto investments away from Canada toward Mexico. On that, it appears he will be successful. But how?

Mercedes will jump back into the battery-powered delivery van niche in 2018, a move that shows pressure is rising to reduce harmful emissions in Europe's congested cities.

With multiple bills seeking to limit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's auto lending guidance scattered across legislators' desks, something's got to give.

Had GM nurtured the seeds it planted with the EV1 and continued to improve its technology, the company probably would have not been embarrassed two years later by the Toyota Prius.

I am not in the business of weighing sins, but I have noticed -- over the last year as the VW diesel emissions scandal has unfolded -- that all automotive sins are not created equal. Now I think I know why.

Dealers need to look long and hard at every dollar they spend. Here are some places to begin doing so.

Is the automobile a social problem? In author and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Humes's view, the car is worse than that - it's a health and economic problem as well.

Nissan's ProPilot can steer around curves and slow down for traffic, but it requires some driver input to keep it going.

Automotive executives facing indictments and jail? Remarkable. It is the first time I can recall executives in America who could conceivably go to jail for actions they took while performing their jobs.

When Matthias Mueller became CEO of a tainted Volkswagen AG, he spoke of plans to gradually introduce a new culture of openness to the company. But he added that he didn't "believe in revolutions, and Volkswagen doesn't need one anyway." Wrong.

On Thursday, Ford CEO Mark Fields grappled live on CNN with Donald Trump's latest round of attacks on Ford's investment plans for Mexico. I wish he answered some of the questions differently.

Ford's plan to move small-car production from the U.S. to Mexico has become a yearlong debacle, right in the midst of the most divisive presidential election in history.

When you look past the app upgrades, vehicle modifications and press releases filled with terms seemingly picked out of a Ph.D. dissertation, you start to realize these models of getting around truly are game-changing, but not because of the computer code behind them.

Lease penetration in August dropped from the year-earlier level, Manheim’s preliminary numbers show. And the company says it could be the start of a pattern. Edmunds sees leasing differently. Its data show lease penetration was up in August, and the company predicts leasing will continue to rise. Where does that leave auto finance?

If recent reports are to be believed, the long-rumored midengine Chevrolet Corvette could be here as early as 2019. Naturally, Chevy is trying to keep a tight lid on the development, but new spy photos provide the clearest look yet at the upcoming car.

How did $1,000 under become the new invoice?

Elon Musk takes pride in his Tesla Motors' salary of $37,584, minimum wage in California. But stock options incentivize Musk to aim high -- really high.

Keith Crain's call for better driver training is laudable if misguided.

I was more than pleasantly surprised to see the story on Jeff Beck talking about driverless cars in your Aug. 29 issue. Bravo for quoting his profound insights into driverless contraptions.

I have never seen the auto industry become as obsessed with new technology as it has been recently with the autonomous vehicle and the electric car.

These are complicated times for U.S. companies trying to sort out strategies in unpredictable emerging markets. But in recent years GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler have found some success.

Unifor certainly isn't taking the easy way out. In selecting General Motors on Tuesday as its target company for pattern negotiations, the union is setting itself up for a fight as the Sept. 19 deadline approaches.

As a rising number of vehicles come off lease, used-vehicle sales are climbing. Reliable cars at lower cost are drawing more prime-quality customers to the used side of the showroom.

While automakers, suppliers and ride providers such as Uber race to develop and deploy self-driving technology, one point is seldom mentioned. U.S. infrastructure simply isn't ready for cars to drive themselves 100 percent safely, 100 percent of the time.

Even with the industry building the safest cars in history, auto-related fatalities are rising. One of the biggest concerns is still drinking and driving, but I think there is one main problem. Drivers don't have enough training.

Internet car-shopping sites say they're not worried about competition from Amazon's new automotive venture. They should be.