All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Automotive

Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian plans to make an offer to Ford Motor Co. that would expand his stake to 5.6%, saying Monday he sees signs the automaker's turnaround plan is working. 

The CEO of Toyota, the one and only only global car company with experience at mass producing vehicles using hybrid, gasoline-electric, power trains said, just a month ago that the lithium-ion battery is not ready for mass production. GM has received, so far, after an investment of , perhaps, one billion...

In March I did an article on billionaire Eddie Lambert's latest investment in the country's largest public dealer group, AutoNation. At the time I questioned the move in light of the U.S. experiencing the worst year in sales since 1998. Today AutoNation reported a drop of 37% in its first quarter...

Ford's financials may be atrocious and their market share may be down, but there may be some hope for the automaker in the form of an industry outsider, Alan Mulally and an industry insider, Jim Farley.

Massive losses, dismal sales and now another blow for GM, it drops to number four in the Forbes 500.

If Chrysler hasn't demonstrated the ability to engineer a great vehicle in a market segment, hire somebody else to do it. The seeds of a strategy to do that lie in last weeks deal with Nissan. The question is whether Chrysler will decide to maximize its strengths or continue to dilute its...

The formation of a premium channel for GM's three upscale brands is likely to aid the company in its oft-stated goal of more dealership consolidations.

Thanks to its focus on Africa and other developing region TATA might be not only beneficial to its host countries but to the environment at large, too.

The GM Volt will contain a battery pack technology that is largely unproven and  largely untested to withstand automotive environmental and reliability requirements. In addition, the manufacturing of Lithium Ion battery packs on the scale that will be needed for Volt production is an environmentally...

VW may be having a good run right now, but the brand seems to become front-of-mind only when it introduces a product that catches the nation's imagination.