Author: Automotive News Feed

Getting customers to hang up and looking out for suspicious pay stubs.

General Motors is creating a suite of 11 new small powerplants that the automaker says will be quieter and more refined than those found in some rival models.

SKF, the world’s largest maker of ball bearings, and Schaeffler were among five companies that agreed to pay a combined 953.3 million euros ($1.3 billion) to settle a European Union probe into an automotive-parts cartel.

Auto loan delinquencies and subprime penetration are rising, but not uniformly and not fast enough to worry about.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ignored a congressional deadline to specify how it determines discrimination in auto lending.

New research shows that distressed customers have been putting their auto loans at the front of the line for payment for at least a decade, well before the Great Recession started in December 2007.

Modular engines offer flexibility; Toyota hit with $1.2B fine, Holder warns other carmakers; lawyers cast net for GM plaintiffs.