Parts Shortage Forces Ford to Idle 3,000 Workers

Some 3,000 workers at Ford Motor’s (F) truck plant in Dearborn, Mich., have been idled because of a shortage of parts needed to manufacture engines installed in the company’s popular line of pickup trucks.

The workers will be on temporary layoff for a…

December Auto Sales: Set to End 2010 in High Gear

The economy may be less robust than most Americans would like, but that didn’t stop many of them from hitting the showrooms in December. That likely propelled auto sales in the final month of 2010 to 1.13 million units, the yea…