The Japanese automaker’s bottom line is likely to have been hit by its many safety recalls, weaker U.S. sales and Japan’s rising currency. Analysts forecast Toyota will report a quarterly profit of about $1 billion on sales of …
Despite wintry weather across much of the nation, Americans were in a car-buying mood last month, boosting most automakers’ sales by double-digit percentages compared to a year ago. Analysts estimate that January’s sales reache…
Ford Motor said sales of its cars and trucks rose 13.3% in January on improved demand by consumers, bucking last year’s trend, when sales to fleet customers largely drove the increase. For the month, the automaker sold 127,317 …
General Motors sales rose 21.8% in January compared to a year ago on strong sales across its lines of passenger cars, “crossover” vehicles and trucks, the automaker said Tuesday. Each of the automaker’s four divisions recorded …
Zipcar members in San Francisco, Portland and Boston can try out Toyota’s Prius plug-in hybrid, providing valuable info to Toyota before rolling the cars out to consumers in 2012. And Zipcar gets another way to make its greenho…