This brand will never offer the hulking S.U.V.s that Americans prefer. But this new vehicle offers enough room for four happy campers.
Steven Gold outside his home in Oak Park, Mich. “If I were still a good driver in a few years, I’d consider a semiautonomous car,” he said.
More older adults are without children, and many live in suburbs where public transportation is not readily available. Self-driving cars might be a solution.
The Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai. Taxes on imported cars have become a growing area of friction between the United States and China.
Autos are emerging as a potential point of contention ahead of President Trump’s meeting with his Chinese counterpart, but the industry sees no easy answers.
Sometimes the only way to push technology advances is through rules. Loosening the ones on fuel economy could leave the car industry out of step with the future.
Some automakers already offer drowsiness detection systems, and more are likely to follow with ever more sophisticated technology.
A judge in Munich authorized investigators to seize documents from Matthias Müller, Volkswagen’s chief executive; Rupert Stadler, Audi’s chief; and dozens of others.
Donald Trump, speaking to auto executives and workers in a former assembly plant near Detroit, halted a move by Barack Obama to tighten fuel-economy standards.
Searches of Audi offices threaten to damage the image of one of Volkswagen’s main sources of badly needed profit.
Munich prosecutors seized documents from Jones Day, suggesting investigators believe the firm may have withheld information collected in an internal investigation into the carmaker’s emissions fraud.
Even as it moved to end legal action in the United States over its efforts to illegally evade emissions standards, the German carmaker faces mounting legal woes in Europe.
Automakers have said the fuel standards, which have been widely praised by environmentalists, would be expensive and technologically difficult to achieve.
Software that allowed the auto manufacturer to skirt environmental rules could lead to 1,200 deaths because of excess air pollution, researchers said.
The possibility of job cuts and factory closures in Europe could spark nationalist appeals.
On the Oscars broadcast, the message will be working together to overcome challenges. But these days, can even invoking unity be a risk for a brand?
Uber’s reputation is in tatters. Fixing its culture is the only way out.
Lured by Presidents Day deals, U.S. buyers snapped up pickups and SUVs in February, brightening what is usually a lackluster month for the auto industry.
The ruling is something of a conclusion to a crackdown on companies that used middlemen to buy cars from American dealers and sell them for big profits in China.
Mr. Ghosn, a rare foreign executive in Japan, took control of the Japanese automaker in 2001 and helped save it from collapse with large job cuts.
For the first time since 2007, more than 40,000 were killed in crashes last year, a safety group estimated, pointing to lax law enforcement as a factor.
Technology glitches including Bluetooth phone pairing and misunderstood voice commands put a dent in car and truck reliability scores in a major survey of automobile owners.
Regulators are investigating whether the devices unfairly violate a borrower’s’ privacy.
Toyota is adding lifesaving technology to the 2017 sedan and many of its other passenger cars.
A federal agency’s plan to require communication hardware in future cars is spurring efforts to have vehicles not only see, but talk, to reduce collisions.
Along with sensors, autonomous vehicles will need detailed maps of the road and the obstacles ahead. Creating these maps will be a monumental task.
Some say autonomous vehicles should have common technology before they hit the road, but there is also a strong case for independent approaches.
While President Trump has called for major spending on infrastructure, cities like Omaha have resorted to unusual solutions to problems unlikely to see federal funding.
Automakers have pulled many convertible models, leaving lovers of top-down driving to find their own solutions.
Motorists in New York and Baltimore tended to pay the most after being involved in accidents they did not cause, a consumer group found.
Shifting safety warnings and evaluations focus on how vehicles light up the roadways. At the same time, manufacturers are poised to roll out new headlamp technology.
Electric vehicles offer a new chance to Chinese car-making efforts that have floundered in the past. But lavish state aid could be as much bane as boon.
Dealers are scrambling every which way amid a recall of over 60 million Takata airbags, and consumers need to ask some very pointed questions.
For Steve Hayes, a childhood hobby turned into a collection of 13,500 automotive marketing brochures. Most of them will soon be up for sale.
In promoting plans to add jobs, some of which have long been in the works, companies help position themselves favorably with the Trump administration.
Ford Motor is announcing it will incorporate Amazon’s Alexa into its vehicles, one of many efforts by automakers to improve voice-recognition systems.