by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 21, 2014
Sales of new cars, trucks and crossovers are showing signs of coming back to life after hibernating during the bleak winter months of January and February. After an unexpectedly strong surge in demand last year, sales started to slide as winter storms appeared to keep...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 21, 2014
General Motors CEO Mary Barra, facing her first major crisis since assuming the top job at the Detroit maker, will face a grilling on Capitol Hill on April 1 as lawmakers asked her to explain the delay in recalling 1.62 million vehicles that have been linked to at...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 20, 2014
Don’t be surprised if you get a sense of déjà vu all over again – as Yogi Berra liked to say – when you get to the New York Auto Show next month. Yes, you’ve seen that Acura TLX before. Well, almost but not quite. Honda’s upscale marque gave us a look at a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 20, 2014
Anyone looking for a midsize car has a wealth of choices from a wide variety of carmakers which have brought some very good options to U.S. showrooms in recent years. Now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has entered the competition with a very good alternative that could...
by Michael Strong | Mar 20, 2014
Looming tougher emissions standards in Europe has automakers on the continent hustling to find ways to make sure they meet the 2020 mandate. BMW plans to build more than 100,000 electric vehicles annually to achieve the goal. BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer told reporters...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 20, 2014
There have always been skeptics. They thought man couldn’t fly, or go to the moon. They expected Columbus to fall off the edge of the Earth. And they didn’t expect Honda to do much better when it opened an assembly plant in the middle of Ohio nearly 32 years ago....
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 20, 2014
For many folks, the first sighting of a crocus or a robin mark the return of spring. For gearheads, the real signal that warm weather is on its way comes when we see the top rolled back on a convertible. And Mazda plans to do just that in a few weeks when it rolls out...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 20, 2014
General Motors is ready to roll out a new family of small, three- and four-cylinder gasoline engines that will eventually power one of every four vehicles GM builds around the world. Engines from the new Ecotec family are already scheduled to power the new Opel Adam,...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 19, 2014
When you set an all-time sales record you have plenty of reason to celebrate, but Bentley is giving fans of the British ultra-luxury brand their own reason to celebrate with the release of the first images of the maker’s upcoming SUV. Originally teased in concept form...
by Michael Strong | Mar 19, 2014
European car sales were up for the sixth month in a row; however, that bit of good news comes on the heels of the market suffering its worst downturn in decades, which is to say oftentimes good news is relative. February sales rose 8% in February to 861,058 units,...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 19, 2014
Declaring that “car owners …have a right to expect that their vehicle is safe,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today announced a settlement of a long-running investigation into Toyota’s handling of a series of problems linked to a number of deaths and injuries and...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 19, 2014
Volkswagen of America plans to bring its newest clean diesel engine to North America later this year, a move that could add even more momentum to the revival of the high-mileage technology. VW has been one of the biggest proponents of the new diesel technology...
