General Motors is running out of money, reporting a loss of $4.2 billion for the quarter. Ford lost $2.9 billion and made more cutbacks.

Ford is to introduce a key-based security system that limits what younger drivers can do to the family car.

A new safety technology from Ford will let parents limit teen drivers' top speed, cap the volume on the stereo and encourage other safe driving habits.

Alan Mulally, the chief executive of Ford Motor, said Monday that he saw no reason to believe that auto sales will rebound in the United States before late next year or perhaps 2010.

Sales of Chrysler vehicles fell 34 percent in the United States in August, while Ford sales were down 26 percent; General Motors sales fell 20 percent and Toyota's were down 9.4 percent.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co may shift billions of dollars of health care obligations for retired hourly workers to a trust fund overseen by the United Auto Workers union in 2010, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co may shift billions of dollars of health care obligations for retired hourly workers to a trust fund overseen by the United Auto Workers union in 2010, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

DETROIT, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Sluggish sales and tight credit killed a planned sale of a Michigan plastic trim plant to a Ford supplier, industry experts say.

BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) -- A Burrillville town councilor got more than he bargained for when he bought a used police cruiser at auction. Kevin Blais bought the 2004 Ford Crown Victoria in an online auction from the Hartford, Conn., police. He was cleaning it last week when he noticed a cracked area on the one-piece molded seat assembly....

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Divulged FBI files reveal future President Gerald Ford advised the FBI of skeptics on the Warren Commission in its Kennedy assassination inquiry.