Volkswagen has tapped a veteran with deep knowledge of the U.S. domestic auto industry to head its U.S. operations. The German carmaker named Jonathan Browning, who has worked for both General Motors and Ford Motor, as CEO of V…
Akerson, who assumed the post Sept. 1, will also receive a portion of his salary in the form of stock, totaling $5.3 million, which will be paid out over three years beginning September 2011.
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The thrifty new small car replaces the underwhelming Chevy Cobalt, a model that had a hard time competing with the likes of Toyota’s Corolla and Ford’s Focus, new versions of which are due in coming months. A manual transmissi…
GM will test an application to allow drivers to search Facebook through the OnStar communications systems it puts in its cars. The system will allow drivers to have access to the social media site through verbal speech recognit…