Mike Manley was the highest-paid Detroit 3 executive in 2022, even though he no longer worked for an automaker.
Manley, who has been CEO of AutoNation since November 2021, earned $56.2 million (€51.2
Cadillac chief Rory Harvey will become General Motors’ new president of North America at the end of the month as Steve Carlisle retires after a 41-year career with the automaker.
Carlisle, 61,
Former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler is ready to make a confession about his role in Volkswagen Group’s diesel emissions scandal in exchange for a suspended sentence and a payment of 1.1 million euros
Mary Barra’s total compensation in nine years as CEO of General Motors has surpassed $200 million.
Barra received a pay package worth just less than $29 million in 2022, according to a filing with
2020 BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe First Look Review: Bringing Sexy Back
BMW hit a home run when it decided to bring back the legendary 8 Series to replace the outgoing 6 Series. First available as a coupe or
2020 Cadillac XT5 First Look Review: Updating A Best-Seller
Cadillac realizes it can’t survive with sedans only. Not even the hot-selling Escalade SUV is enough. No, General Motors’ luxury brand requires
A high-roller for high rollers. Customisation is in vogue at the moment, but choice can be seriously confusing. In our configurator challenge, we let the CarAdvice team loose on a manufacturer’s
2018 Mazda 6 Test Drive Review: Boost Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Can the addition of a turbocharger reinvigorate the Mazda 6?
Ever since the introduction of the third generation Mazda 6 for the 2014 model
Renault CEO Luca de Meo worked for more than eight months to reboot the automaker’s alliance with Nissan Motor Co. to move beyond a “culture of compromise” that had been the status quo
The restructuring of the Nissan and Renault alliance is not the legacy Carlos Ghosn had in mind.
The announcement Monday that Renault will gradually reduce its stake in Nissan is a repudiation of the
Ford Motor Co.’s engineering ranks may bear the brunt of additional job cuts the automaker has alluded to in the wake of disappointing earnings, judging from CEO Jim Farley’s latest interview.
“It
General Motors got its newest vice president from Tesla, but he was raised on GM.
Zach Kirkman joined GM in January as vice president of corporate development and global mergers and acquisitions. He previously
ATLANTA — Mercedes-Benz USA’s longtime marketing boss and onetime interim CEO Drew Slaven has left the company.
In a memo to the brand’s dealers reviewed by Automotive News, Mercedes-Benz
German parts supplier ZF Group’s heated seat belt promises to increase driver comfort in cold weather and even conserve battery range in electric vehicles in the process.
The Heat Belt contains
Elon Musk testified that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund “unequivocally” wanted to take Tesla Inc. private in 2018, a core element of his defense to claims that his tweets about
Tesla Inc.’s former chief financial officer told a jury that Elon Musk’s 2018 tweet about taking the company private was at odds with a regulatory preference not to release “material
SAN FRANCISCO – Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk testified Tuesday that he intended to inform and not deceive shareholders when he tweeted in 2018 that he had funding lined up to take the electric car maker
The world’s No. 1 automaker has a new CEO, and the transition of power could not have come at a more pivotal time.
Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday surprised the market when it announced that Lexus President
WASHINGTON — Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk met two top officials in President Joe Biden‘s administration on Friday in Washington to discuss how the car maker and the Democratic president could
SAN FRANCISCO — The board chair of Tesla Inc. defended CEO Elon Musk in a securities fraud trial on Friday, telling jurors that she would have quit as a director if she had thought Musk lied by
Ana Gasteyer, the “Saturday Night Live” alum whose current TV role is the CEO of fictional Detroit automaker Payne Motors, says she’d love to arrange a guest appearance for her real-life
U.S. stock market regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla Inc.’s self-driving vehicle claims, the latest effort by watchdogs to scrutinize the actions of the world’s second-richest
DETROIT — General Motors said it has hired former Tesla Inc. executive Zach Kirkman as vice president of corporate development and global mergers and acquisitions.
GM’s CFO Paul Jacobson announced
SAN FRANCISCO — A jury cleared Elon Musk of claims by Tesla Inc. investors that he defrauded them when he tweeted 4 1/2 years ago that he was considering taking the company private and had “funding
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk settled into a federal courtroom here on Friday and had a laugh just as closing arguments were about to begin in the trial over whether his 2018 tweets defrauded Tesla
2020 Hyundai Venue First Look Review: Affordable Isn’t A Bad Word
Back towards the end of 2018, Hyundai told CarBuzz it thought a smaller SUV to sit below the Kona might be a good idea, saying there
2019 Lexus IS Test Drive Review: Outgunned But Not Outstyled
In an effort to pull buyers away from the established German luxury brands, Lexus introduced the IS (a rebadged version of the Toyota Altezza)
2019 Ford F-150 Raptor Test Drive Review: Nothing Else Like It
By the mid-late 2000s, Ford finally realized that although the on-road performance of the F-150 SVT Lightning was incredible, the sports truck’s
2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback Test Drive Review: Happy, Affordable, Manual
Car reviewers are often asked for opinions on which vehicle their friends should buy and the discussion often goes in the same
2019 Ford F-150 Test Drive Review: The Champion For A Reason
There’s not much to say about the Ford F-150 that the mention of a few key facts cannot convey. That includes the F-150’s status as not
2020 Kia Seltos First Look Review: Big Style, Small Size
It wasn’t too many years ago when Kias were considered cheap and basic transportation and not much more. It’s amazing just how fast that perception
Imazu: Was told to keep digging TOKYO — A clique of Nissan colleagues worked secretly to investigate their chairman at the time, Carlos Ghosn, before taking their findings directly to prosecutors,
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray First Look Review: The Attainable Game Changer
Don’t blame rare steaks that bleed when stabbed with a fork or head-first tackles on the ten yard line for inspiring the
2020 Cadillac XT6 First Drive Review: Not The Standout It Needs To Be
By the summer of 2014, Cadillac had seemingly found the path that would lead it to the growth it so badly wanted. After years of lackluster
2020 BMW X6 First Look Review: Evolution At Its Finest
BMW product planners are geniuses. It all began over a dozen years ago when they were strategizing on how best to take advantage of a growing demand
2020 Nissan GT-R First Look Review: Aging, But Doing So Beautifully
In many ways, it’s good Nissan has yet to replace the GT-R. While most other automakers are adapting electrification to varying degrees
Hyundai Auto Canada has become the first Canadian automaker to sign on to the BlackNorth Initiative, which in part will see the company recruit dealer principals of color.
CEO Don Romano said that as
Nikola Corp., the troubled electric-truck startup, lost a key member of its executive team with the departure of the former head of its fuel cell development program.
The company said Jesse Schneider,
Lawyers for former Reynolds and Reynolds Co. CEO Bob Brockman have asked a judge to delay a competency hearing in a federal tax fraud case after Brockman recently was hospitalized for an undisclosed medical
TOKYO — Ashwani Gupta had been COO of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. for barely seven months when he sat down to dine with its chairman and talk about the troubled carmaker’s revival plan.
But the discussion
2020 Audi A4 First Look Review: A Personality Found
Believe it or not, it’s been four years since the current generation Audi A4 debuted and a lot has happened since. Longtime rivals, mainly the all-new
Former BMW and Volkswagen Group CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder has been named chairman of the supervisory board at Daimler, succeeding Manfred Bischoff, who is stepping down after 14 years in the position.
Pischetsrieder,
Volkswagen Group said it will claim damages from former CEO Martin Winterkorn and former Audi boss Rupert Stadler, as the company tries to draw a line under its diesel cheating scandal.
The automaker’s
DETROIT — General Motors has added former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman and NBA COO and Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum to its board of directors, effective Thursday.
The additions expand GM’s
2020 Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 First Look Review: US Gets Shortchanged
Mercedes-Benz remains deadlocked in a battle with Audi and BMW, each vying to be the best luxury automaker in the world. In order to remain
Cox Automotive Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer Janet Barnard will retire at the end of June, company President Steve Rowley said Thursday in a statement.
Barnard’s career at Cox
GHSP has named industry veteran Dan Dawiedczyk its next president to scale its existing automotive business and new technology market operations globally.
Dawiedczyk, who is succeeding Tom Rizzi, will
Here are edited highlights from the latest episodes of “Daily Drive,” Automotive News‘ weekday podcast, hosted by Jason Stein and Steve Schmith.
“We think of Amazon as a digital
Edsel Ford, who for years ran the company’s annual Salute to Dealers program, turned over that role to his son last year.
“Our great company has been tested in many ways, not least of which