Unions haven't had much luck getting their feet in the door to Alabama's automotive industry during boom times dating to the mid-1990s when the first vehicles started rolling off state assembly lines. The lack of union activity in Alabama's auto industry has been a key selling point for the state when courting new business in the sector, which supports more than 134,000 jobs and a $5.2 billion ...

Unions haven't had much luck getting their feet in the door to Alabama's automotive industry during boom times dating to the mid-1990s when the first vehicles started rolling off state assembly lines.

The smell of motor oil is a given at Carlisle Events' automotive shows, but in certain vicinities other, more enticing aromas overpower it.

Mr Narayanan also points to the two sectors which are eliciting greater interest from fresh graduates - one is the automotive sector and the other the electronic manufacturing sector which has been seeing huge investments.

Silvia Arnold of Lafayette and her son, Ethan, 4, worked their way from booth to booth Saturday outside Subaru of Indiana Automotive's Recreation Pavilion.

For Toyota, September was its third worst sales decline since at least 1980. "The best thing about September is that it's over," said Don Esmond, senior vice president of automotive operations for Toyota Motor Sales USA.

The signs on the black-and-white 1956 Studebaker Sky Hawk convertible said it all.

New-vehicle dealership closures may rise as much as 40 percent this year as slumping sales and surging borrowing costs cut into profits, the National Automotive Dealers Association said. As many as 600 businesses may shut down or consolidate with other dealers, about 3 percent of the total. That compares with 430 a year ago.

Yorozu Automotive Mississippi will close its Warren County facility in mid-December and production will be moved to Tennessee.

Yorozu Automotive Mississippi will close its Warren County facility in mid-December and production will be moved to Tennessee.