FT.com - Autos
FT.com - Autos



Chrysler explores Chinese partnership (Jul 3)
Chrysler has signed an agreement with China's Great Wall Motor to study the feasibility of sharing each other's distribution networks, components, and technology


Crash test dummies (Jul 2)
The car embodies the pressures on the ailing US economy. It is built from expensive metal and plastic. It burns oil.


Downsizing SUV drivers shift Mini sales up a gear (Jul 2)
SUV trade-ins in the US have helped to push sales of BMW's sporty, pint-sized Mini to new records, even as the overall stateside car market has sunk to its lowest levels in more than a decade


Detroit's Big Three keep eyes on cash (Jul 2)
General Motors' shares, already at their lowest level in half a century, fell by almost 10 per cent by midday after Merrill Lynch downgraded its recommendation for the stock to "underperform" from "buy" and said that "bankruptcy is not impossible"


All the low-carbon fun of Formula One (Jul 2)
Motorsport is balanced on a cusp where other previously praiseworthy activities ? including smoking, elephant shooting and western military imperialism ? teetered before becoming uncool, says Jonathan Guthrie


Lookers joins the retail sales reverse (Jul 2)
The UK car dealership says it is considering possible redundancies and selling underperforming sites, warning that sales are so volatile it is unable to predict profits


Toyota stall keeps GM atop US sales rankings (Jul 1)
Toyota's US sales fell by more than a fifth last month, allowing General Motors to retain its decades-long dominance of the world's biggest car market


Fiat caught in the market's 'perfect storm' (Jul 1)
Italian group says it will pass on the rising of commodities and raw materials to consumers of its cars and agricultural products and it sees no sign commodity prices will fall


Detroit car sales set to be 'worst since 1990s' (Jun 30)
June car sales data, due out on Tuesday, are expected to show the US auto market heading for its worst year in more than a decade


Chrysler plant closing reflects shift in demand (Jun 30)
Chrysler will close a US minivan assembly plant and cut one of two shifts at a pick-up truck plant in the latest move by carmakers to adjust their North American capacity to meet new demand for more fuel-efficient cars and crossover vehicles