As a presidential candidate in 2007, Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha drove a car not much smaller than the Chevy Spark. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

In Detroit, they call them “car guys,” the people with gasoline in their veins who love automobiles…

American automakers Chrysler and General Motors are asking for more government aid in their attempt to become “going concerns” again.

GM is expected to release its plan after 6 p.m. today. Chrysler is expected to follow. Both are required by the…

Chevrolet once marketed itself as the “heartbeat of America.” Today, the heartbeat of the American auto industry is weak — but at least it still has a pulse.
On Thursday, Congress decided to wait before voting on whether to provide cash-strapped…

Once, what was good for General Motors was good for the United States. This week, the chief executive of General Motors — along with his counterparts at Ford and Chrysler — tried to convince Congress that the saying still holds…

The price of gasoline in St. Louis averaged $2.02 per gallon on Friday, a little more than half of its $3.98 high last July. This week a gallon of regular unleaded is going for less $2 at many stations for the…

The Chrysler Fenton plant

The federal government may subsidize the merger of General Motors and Chrysler soon in the hope that combining these corporate clunkers might keep them out of the junkyard of bankruptcy.

Given the stakes — 315,000 jobs and benefits for…

The federal government, already pumping cheap money into the banking industry to prevent a credit collapse and poised to recapitalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by as much as $50 billion to get mortgages flowing, is about to be tapped…