GENEVA (MarketWatch) — The Geneva Motor Show may have unofficially begun with a Bentley SUV, but it didn’t take long for the kinds of small, fuel-efficient vehicles that reign supreme on Europe’s roads to take over.
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Come to Geneva to gawk at the all-new, 1,200-horsepower Bugatti Veyron. Stick around to hear about how the world’s biggest car makers plan to navigate a tough global business climate.
BARCELONA (MarketWatch) — We are at a tipping point. Global gridlock is quickly becoming a reality. Congestion on our roads must be eased. So says the guy whose family put America on wheels.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Cue the old wisecrack acronyms about Ford’s cars and trucks. Jeep, yeah Jeep, is the new domestic standard in reliability, according to a study published on Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Since the first bug smacked into the windshield of a Model T, bigger always has been better for surviving car crashes. It’s simply a matter of physics, no changing that.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Though, when it comes to the recent pact reached between Ford Motor Co. (F, US) and Toyota Motor Corp. (TM, US), it’s tough to tell who’s doing the beating and who’s doing the ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — With its investment in jeopardy of costing taxpayers billions, the U.S. Treasury will likely look to General Motors Co.’s quarterly results Thursday for clues about when to extract itself from the car business.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The White House, working closely with the auto makers, took major strides Friday toward slapping the toughest fuel-economy requirements yet on new cars and trucks.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Labor talks kicked off in Detroit this week, and Ford Motor Co. on Tuesday followed up with a second-quarter profit decline that couldn’t have come at a better time for the car maker’s top brass.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Radical advances in personal transportation are right around the corner. Just like they have been for decades.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Lead poisoning, dying rivers, smoke-spewing coal power plants. Yes, China is to environmental conservation what Greece is to fiscal stability in the euro zone.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Just walk away. I could almost hear The Humungus urging me to flee the fuel pump much like he did to Mel Gibson’s Mad Max character in the movie “Road Warrior.”

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