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General Motors Co wants to put nearly a fifth of its workers at a factory in Brazil on paid leave, an auto workers union said on Thursday, amid falling output in Latin America's largest economy.

Abdul Islam Mughal is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 5 on one count of conspiring with others and one count of bank fraud.

Keystone RV Co.' s Hideout division is experiencing record growth this year. The Goshen, Ind.-based Thor Industries Inc. subsidiary reported in a press release that the division, which includes Hideout travel trailers and fifth-wheels as well as Retreat destination trailers, has increased retail sales by 28% year-to-date through June and shows 52% ... (more)

DETROIT - Recall costs chopped $1.5 billion from General Motors' bottom line in the second quarter, cutting its net income by 85 percent.

The Dearborn automaker's revenues fell to $37.4 billion from $37.9 billion during the same period a year ago.

Hyundai Motor Co. says its second-quarter profit fell 7 per cent as the appreciation of South Korean diluted its overseas earnings.

Local shares are poised to edge higher at the open, lifted in part by a generally positive day on Wall Street where the S&P 500 reached a record on Apple's latest quarterly results.

The state government on Tuesday refused to disclose the agreement it has signed with Tata Motors Limited calling it a "confidential" agreement.

When Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced the deployment of up to 1,000 armed National Guard troops to the Mexican border he was speaking to voters in Iowa as much as Texas.

Helping Out highlights some of the many charitable events and activities going on in the Charleston area.

Toyota's new fuel cell vehicle is displayed at the company's showroom in Tokyo. Toyota's new fuel cell vehicle is displayed at the company's showroom in Tokyo.

Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles quashed all speculation of a possible tie-up with Volkswagen Group today, saying the idea had never been on the agenda.

The maker of Mercedes cars said net earnings for the April-June period were 2.2 billion euros , down from 4.58 billion euros a year earlier - a figure that was boosted by the sale of its stake in Airbus' parent company.

Daimler AG reported a sharp rise in second-quarter earnings, driven by record sales in its Mercedes-Benz luxury car division, as the German auto maker races to catch up with rivals BMW AG and Audi AG.

The Davidson Legacy and Aberlemno Hall Committee welcomed more than 100 Harley-Davidsons and riders from the Fife Charity Motorcycle Runs on Sunday.

An attorney who is representing several hundred people in civil claims against General Motors has thrown his support behind proposed legislation in the U.S. Senate that would hold executives of auto companies criminally liable for concealing dangerous defects from the public.

Polaris Industries' rocketed within rarefied air Tuesday after the recreational vehicle and motorcycle maker reported robust second-quarter revenue growth and raised full-year earnings projections.

General Motors is planning to invest as much as $800 million in various locations in Michigan and hire up to 1,750 new workers in the coming years as a result of a change to its tax credit agreement approved by the State of Michigan today.

Ford Motor Co has named engineer Kumar Galhotra to succeed Jim Farley as head of the company's Lincoln brand, the automaker said Tuesday.

At this point, there's little question that General Motors deserves the bulk of the blame for not recalling the millions of vehicles affected by the ignition switch problem earlier than it did.