Renault is opening a "used parts factory" in France where its trucks will be broken down and their major parts harvested for use in trucks that are still running. The facility will have a reverse ...

Auto assembly is among the most complex operations in existence, and it requires thousands of parts, people, and machines to make it all work. While early automobiles were built individually by hand, ...

In a no-expense-spared, OEM assembly line restoration, accuracy in every detail is what separates a truly authentic build from a merely good one. From the way panels line up to the finish of the ...

Tesla has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...

Before computers and automation, cars were a lot harder to build, often requiring hard men and brute force to go from raw materials to cool '50s or '60s Chevys sitting on a dealership's lot. Back then ...

Say what you will about the industrial age assembly line, but there’s no denying one fact: It was crazy effective. All of this made it easy for managers to optimize the assembly process. For instance, ...