By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Nissan is giving the Datsun brand a Go in India.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Early in our relationship my wife deferred to my competence in all things automotive.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Auto safety advocates are calling for government regulators to crash-test older model Jeeps to make sure protective trailer hitches actually protect occupants.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Sometime in the not-too-distant future a driver will be able to get out of a vehicle in front of a hotel or restaurant and her car will find an open parking spot and park itself at the touch of a button.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
I had a girlfriend in college who had a 1970 Toyota Corolla. Back in the day the boxy Japanese compact was a novelty, sort of like what early buyers of Hyundai and Kia vehicles experienced when they drove South Korean cars in the early 1990s.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is taking a close look at 400,000 Ford F-150 pickups with 3.5-liter EcoBoost gasoline engines because of a lack of power in some circumstances.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
The Detroit Three automakers are scaling back their annual summer production shutdowns to keep up with demand for top-selling models.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
U.S. automakers win "Total Quality" awards
With any technology there's a learning curve and hybrids are no different.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Never heard of Coda Automotive? Don't feel too bad.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Outgoing U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released voluntary guidelines to discourage automakers from installing electronic devices that could create distractions for drivers.
There are reasons why sales of new cars and trucks continue at a torrid pace.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
There's a new sheriff in town and it wears a blue oval -- or does it?
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Hyundai and Kia, which admitted inflating gas mileage claims, now have a huge recall on their hands.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
It's hard to get excited about a minivan. Even the best of them are utilitarian people-haulers that their owners buy for all the proper reasons: safety, seating room and convenience.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Owners of Honda cars got some bad news and some good news.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
As a new car owner I can tell you about the hassle of carrying a smart key as big as a tube of lip balm around to open, close and start the vehicle.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Nearly a year ago I asked the question: "Who is buying all these cars?" The answer not surprisingly was baby boomers, parents and grandparents of today's students who had the money to afford a new car.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
CHICAGO, March 3 (UPI) -- Volkswagen unveils its latest engineering triumph at the Geneva Auto Show in Switzerland this week -- a production version of a sleek two-seater concept plug-in hybrid that averages the equivalent of 261 mpg.
The Chicago Auto Show wrapped up a 10-day run President's Day, and while final attendance numbers aren't in, organizers said it remains the best attended auto show in the United States.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
As expected, Japan's Toyota Motor Co. last week officially regained the No. 1 ranking among global automakers after selling 9.75 million vehicles last year.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Of all the new cars and concepts unveiled at the North American Auto Show in Detroit only a handful are all-electric or hybrids.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
When Toyota Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda predicted a comeback for the Japanese automaker last spring no one really doubted him.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
Automakers that spend hundreds of millions developing electric and hybrid cars have an unexpected problem: the government says the vehicles are too quiet.
By AL SWANSON, UPI Auto Writer
In automotive lore, GM President Charles Erwin Wilson famously said: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."
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