Checker Motors, today's builder and subcontractor of automotive sheetmetal body components, is still remembered as being the producer of the most recognizable taxi platform in the United States.

We're always told not to dwell on the past, but sometimes it can be kind of fun. Paying tribute to the Checker Motor Cars cab is one of those times. New vehicles from Checker could soon be on the road ...

You know the economy must be in good shape when auto companies that were formerly left for dead begin to rise like Lazarus. Last week it was the boutique automaker formerly known as Fisker that was ...

KALAMAZOO -- A Canadian automotive supplier may buy Checker Motors Corp. for $1.6 million, according to documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court late this week. Checker Motors, which has been ...

New York City may have the Taxi of Tomorrow these days, but a new take on the classic Checker cab could soon be on the road. Checker Motor Cars of Haverhill, Mass., is planning to manufacture two ...

KALAMAZOO -- Citing high labor costs and the erosion of vehicle sales by its car-making customers, Checker Motors Corp. filed Friday for bankruptcy protection. The automotive supplier, perhaps best ...

Checker Motors Corp., the auto-parts maker that once produced the Checker taxi cab, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while another Michigan supplier closed its doors. Checker sought court ...

New York City nostalgists and retrophiles rejoice: Checker, the brand behind the city’s most iconic fleet of taxi cabs, plans on rolling out new cars for the first time in more than three decades.

After 87 years of operation - some of which were spent building one of the world's most famous taxi cabs - Checker Motors Corporation filed for bankruptcy this week. The company, based out of ...