The blaze that shut down the Magna factory just west of Howell last week threatened OEM production across the US - but just four days after the fire raged through the 187,000-square-foot facility, it's back in service.
The northwest corner of Jackson and Wagner roads will become home to a MINI dealership in coming months. Sisters Vanessa and Angela Bradley have been absorbed in family matters since their father's death in 2003. They've moved their mother and grandmother out to California and grappled with the fate of ...
Japanese automaker Toyota said today that it would spend $50 million over five years to establish an auto safety research center under the umbrella of the Toyota Technical Center, which employs 1,000 workers in York Township and Ann Arbor Township.
The northwest corner of Jackson and Wagner roads will become home to a MINI dealership in early 2011. Plans to build a new MINI dealership on the site of the former Jim Bradley Pontiac dealership just west of Ann Arbor keep moving forward. The next visible sign of progress will ...
If the fire truck parked outside Ypsilanti’s Corner Brewery ever had any dreams of an afterlife, it may have dreamed of serving as a mobile draft beer wagon. And in that case, its dreams are on the way to fulfillment.
This story was updated at 6 p.m. to reflect that new MINI dealership will be at the former Jim Bradley site; initial information from MINI on the location was incorrect. The quirky MINI brand chose the Ann Arbor area for its third auto dealership in Michigan, a corporate spokeswoman confirmed ...
The United Auto Workers union, struggling with declining membership and diminished wages, elected a lawyer and longtime union negotiator as its new president Wednesday. More than 2,000 UAW members supported Bob King in an hour-long roll-call vote Wednesday at the union's convention in Detroit. He replaces Ron Gettelfinger, 65, who ...
Until recently, I never took a look at Hyundai cars and trucks. Hyundais were not sporting, stylish, nor did anyone I know own one. Then last year, I met a woman who drove a Kia, also a Hyundai company, which she bought solely for the 10-year warranty.
Toyota cruised back to profit in the latest quarter as the world's top carmaker cut costs and hitched a ride on the global auto sales recovery while fighting to salvage its reputation for quality. But the automaker's top executive and analysts alike said Toyota is still far from a full ...
Getting to the top of your game or industry is never easy. It takes vision, dedication, competitive drive, talent and some luck. However, it doesn't take long for a champion to get knocked off the podium.Toyota, it seems, is having its own Tiger Woods moment. Tiger's reputation was permanently tarnished ...
The Ann Arbor region’s Toyota Technical Center did not engineer the parts associated with the Japanese automaker’s massive recall, an executive said. The 1,100-person engineering operation completed general engineering work for the Toyota Tundra and Avalon, which are impacted by the recall. But the technical center was not involved in ...
Since we got in the car, the boys have been speaking in acronyms. I understand every fourth word or so—“sucks,” “awesome,” “I disagree.” They might as well be speaking Japanese.
Saab got a new life Tuesday as General Motors Co. agreed to sell the Swedish car brand to the small Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker Cars NV.
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