Billionaires Bernard Arnault and Albert Frere are considering a bid for Aston Martin, the luxury automaker that Ford has put up for sale, the Financial Times reported Friday.

In bringing on Alan R. Mulally, a former Boeing executive, William Clay Ford Jr. was conceding, very bravely and publicly, that he could not run the place by himself. But hiring Mr. Mulally was just the first

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 28 -- Frost & Sullivan selected Manheim, a world's leading provider of automotive remarketing services, as the recipient of the 2006 Client Value Enhancement Award.