The Japanese company at the center of history’s farthest-reaching auto safety crisis said it would sell its assets to Key Safety Systems, a Chinese-owned American rival.

Start-up financiers have deferred boardroom control to founders in recent years. Travis Kalanick’s ouster indicates that could be changing.

As driverless cars develop, how we sit, inform and entertain ourselves are all up for grabs — and companies, designers and researchers are dreaming big.

The Swedish automaker filed for bankruptcy in 2011, leaving a vanishingly small number of dealerships for fans of the company.

As cars become more like computers, cybercriminals will have more ways to get into their important systems.

General Motors beat back a bid to split its stock into two classes, and its upstart electric-car rival overcame a challenge to multiyear board terms.

Hyundai bet big on smaller vehicles, and it worked well for a time. But not anymore, as consumers have turned to larger models.

An analysis published in The Journal of Pediatrics considers figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatal Analysis Reporting System.

A class-action case alleges that the automaker programmed heavy-duty pickups to cheat on pollution tests. The company denied the charge.

Before Ford, Mr. Hackett was an executive at a furniture company, and he spent a year overhauling the University of Michigan’s athletic department.