THE AUTO INDUSTRY has been likened to the canary in the shaft used by miners to forewarn them of a gas leak. Similarly, automakers are the first to be hit by any downturn in the economy. Whereas the ...

Mere days ago, Nissan's Japanese division announced a series of mammoth recalls totaling 1.4 million vehicles worldwide. Of those, a little over 66,000 units of the Leaf are recalled stateside over ...