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What's good for the goose may be good for the gander, but what works for one country or automaker doesn't necessarily work for another. So while the Canadian Auto Workers union may have approved a new agreement with Ford, below the 49th parallel their compatriots apparently feel otherwise. Up ...

Word out of Frankfurt from the Financial Times Deutschland is that BMW is in talks to sell engines and transmissions to both General Motors and Fiat. All three companies have declined to officially comment. The news is interesting, but not surprising. You may recall that GM has been selling ...

Ferrari is apparently running out of F1 teams to supply with engines, so it's looking to other racing series altogether for new customers. For the current season, the Maranello-based team had to have the rules bent so that they could supply their engines to not one but two additional teams on the ...

UPDATE: Link to source finally added. Our bad. var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/WTF_American_car_workers_make_more_than_University_professors_with_Ph_D'; A tip sent us to the blog of Dr. Mark J. Perry, professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan, who points ...

With just days to go before its investors meeting later this week, it's back to the drawing board for Bertone. According to emerging reports, a proposed deal that would have seen Fiat come to the rescue for the struggling coachbuilder and design house with a manufacturing contract has fallen ...

While much ink has been devoted to Delphi's bankruptcy court request to terminate its labor contracts with the UAW and other unions, that event was only one step along the path to possible confrontation with the unions (albeit a very big one).Over at TheCarConnection.com, Joseph Szczesny has ...