Autos & Transportation

Investors betting on the recovery of the global airline industry have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into a previously small exchange-traded fund over the past three months.

Nissan recorded a $6.2 billion loss in the year ended in March after it took big write-downs as part of a restructuring plan that aims to make the car maker leaner and more profitable.

The Renault-Nissan alliance said they would divide up their global car business, aiming to cut duplicate spending in order to save billions of dollars a year.

The French government is taking steps to prop up France’s auto industry amid a collapse in car purchases caused by the coronavirus crisis.

Auto-parts retailers’ sales should fare well as consumers choose to repair their cars rather than replace them. Their steady sales last quarter should be taken as an encouraging sign as they gear up for the rest of this year.

The British sports-car company made famous by James Bond ousted its chief executive in a fresh bid to resuscitate a storied brand that has been on life support.

A Pakistan International Airlines plane crashes in Karachi, Memorial Day weekend begins as restrictions ease, central Michigan is flooded as dams break and more from The Wall Street Journal’s photo editors.

A Pakistan International Airlines domestic flight crashed as it approached Karachi airport with at least 98 passengers and crew aboard after the pilot said the plane had lost power.

A shortage of parts from Mexico is hampering GM’s plans to quickly ramp up production of high-profit pickups, underscoring the auto industry’s halting restart after a two-month shutdown from the pandemic.

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Ford stopped assembly lines at its Chicago plant for the second straight day, an early indication of the challenges the auto industry faces as production resumes after a two-month shutdown.

Germany’s car manufacturers are once again being bailed out by China. Having skidded to a halt in February, Chinese vehicle sales are rebounding—particularly at the luxury end of the market.

She wondered for years whether she’d find her old family car, a 1970 914/6, before an online search led her from New Jersey to Wisconsin to Montana.

A surprise second-quarter profit could qualify Elon Musk’s car company for its addition to a key investor benchmark.

Rebooting more than 40 U.S. assembly plants—as well as the thousands of component makers that supply them—is likely to be a slow and arduous process, say industry executives and consultants.

For sectors such as airlines, the outlook during the coronavirus pandemic is particularly cloudy, and a traditional investing playbook no longer applies.

The coronavirus crisis will almost certainly push more people to buy cars online. Yet dealerships are such an entrenched part of the industry, particularly in the U.S., that the kind of radical transformation e-commerce has brought to other sectors won’t follow quickly.

U.S. officials are preparing to begin checking passengers’ temperatures at roughly a dozen airports as soon as next week, as the coronavirus pandemic has heightened anxieties about travel.

Auto makers have invested heavily in ride-hailing and car-sharing ventures, seeing them as potentially key to the industry’s future. But for now, consumers’ health concerns are helping to support car makers’ core business.