Ford and Toyota in Dead Heat Among Consumer Perceptions

Toyota’s recent spate of quality woes have allowed competitors to steal sales from the beleaguered automaker. Ford is also catching up with Toyota in another important measure of auto industry success — consumers’ opinions of …

GM Pins Big Hopes on New Chevy Cruze

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…