Daniel Howes

With a century of automaking on the continent, Ford is trying to cut a path back to profitability by navigating where Europe is and is likely to be.

Instead of shaping rule-making and policy to meet the competitive landscape where it is, administrations pursue what they want the world to be.

Michigan plant among three sites included in move driven by increased demand for high-profit SUVs and an effort to limit exposure to Trump's tariffs.

"The landscape around the entire world changed," said Ford dealer Doug North. "We're not trying to be something we're not — what we used to be."

'Gus,' as he's known, understands a major state university with a multibillion-dollar budget needs to navigate the market and economy as they are.

No industry and its people are more heavily courted in this campaign than the auto industry and its people. And no product lines are more debated.

However Trump's zingers may sound like surrender inside the Detroit-based autos bubble, the former president is right about China's building strength.

Detroit News 2024 Michiganian Sheila Ford Hamp, Detroit Lions Principal Owner and Chair, at the Allen Park, Michigan training facility, on May 8, 2024.

The vision for Ford Motor Co.'s reopening of Michigan Central Station, set for June 6, is expanding once again — this time to include Detroit's young.

Talks intensified two days after crosstown rival Ford, UAW reached ‘historic’ tentative deal to end 41-day strike targeting selected plants.

The total calculation could be nearly double the estimates of what foreign automakers operating in the United States pay their workers today,

UAW's Fain is direct, transactional, and he seems unafraid to smash industry conventions, including the admonition that you don't bargain in public.

General Motors’ plan to convert Detroit-Hamtramck plant to all-electric production underscores city’s bid to become real-world hub for Auto 2.0

Deliberate use of ‘racketeering’ signals ominous turn, increasing chance a cadre of UAW leaders could be charged with running a criminal enterprise

Facing challenges of Auto 2.0, Ford opens research center in Tel Aviv to attract talent in connectivity, sensor technology, artificial intelligence.

Here’s the new reality: the Auto 2.0 transformation of an industry founded more than a century ago in Detroit is not leaving the Motor City behind.

But the state’s struggle to align political, business, higher-ed leaders around competitive agenda hampers drive to win in Auto 2.0

Real estate mogul Stephen Ross, a $300 million donor to the university, wanted the former athletic director to keep his job.