
Fisker Automotive took its sweet time filing for bankruptcy, waiting well over a year between building its last car and calling it quits.

Fisker Automotive took its sweet time filing for bankruptcy, waiting well over a year between building its last car and calling it quits.

Fisker might not be making its plug-in Karma sports cars anymore, but it still knows speed. The company’s lawyers convinced a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday that its Chapter 11 should proceed at an unusually rapid pace.

Accountancy firm Deloitte has lost its appeal against a ruling that it failed to manage conflicts of interest in its advice to collapsed UK carmaker MG Rover Group, in a decision it said could force all accountants to examine what advice they can give.
The Rover Group, later MG Rover, collapsed in 2005. Photo credit: Reuters

The bankrupt U.S. arm of Swedish automaker Saab Automobile AB has gained court approval of a plan to liquidate and pay back creditors, effectively ending its bankruptcy.

A 1963 Ford MustangĀ concept car currently on display at the Detroit Historical Museum.Photo credit: ARA HOWRANI/Detroit Historical Society