(August 8, 2013) ACME, Mich. — At the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars today, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann provided the first look at the next-generation Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon, designed to be capable, versatile and fuel-efficient alternatives to full-size pickups.

(August 8, 2013) TORRANCE, Calif. — Toyota Motor Sales today announced that it will conduct a voluntary safety recall involving approximately 342,000 Toyota Tacoma Access Cab vehicles, produced from 2004 to 2011.

(August 7, 2013) AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Chrysler Group today announced that it would invest $52 million in its engine plants in Trenton and Dundee, Mich., to increase capacity of the Tigershark engine, creating nearly 300 new positions at the Trenton plant. Trenton North will receive $11.5 million to add an assembly line for the four-cylinder Tigershark engine. With a $40.5 million investment, Dundee will convert a line to machine cranks, heads and blocks to support Tigershark production at Trenton.

(August 7, 2013) DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford is proving that pickups can be green and tough by adding rice hulls to the list of sustainable materials used to build the F-150. Ford is using plastic reinforced with rice hulls — a byproduct of rice grain — in an electrical harness in the 2014 F-150. The company will need at least 45,000 pounds of hulls in the first year.