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It’s May 1969 at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Company leaders are gathered to drive proposals for efficient commuter cars, including the 512 Electric — a microcar with removable canopy and lead acid batteries that goes 58 miles … at 25 mph.

Three decades later, GM introduced the Impact concept that became the ...Read more

There is an arms race underway in the automotive industry.

Blackened chrome, LED strips, giant grilles, screens the size of suburban kitchen islands, illuminated logos, animated turn signals, ambient lighting in 35 colors and enough electronic wizardry to make the average pickup truck feel less like transportation and more like a Las Vegas ...Read more

Wrapped in Woolstone Green, the Land Rover Defender 110 is a seven-seat gem that blends everyday utility, off-road chops and luxury.

As Jaguar and Land Rover have joined hands recently to create JLR, the level of detail has increased nicely across the fleet. Our week-long tester had great boxy aesthetics on the exterior and a nicely apportioned...Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the most extraordinary events in America’s year-long celebration of its 250th birthday, the Freedom 250 Grand Prix brought IndyCars to the nation’s capital Sunday, August 23 to race around the National Mall. Organized by American racing legend Roger Penske, the event was wrapped in a red-white-and-blue who’s-...Read more

It’s one of the busiest freight corridors in the United States, and it’s getting cleaner.

In the latest in the global effort to clean up heavy-duty freight, representatives from three countries gathered Wednesday at the Port of Long Beach to launch the British Columbia to Baja California Zero Emissions Vehicle corridor, or BC2BC, which, ...Read more

The number of new vehicles you can buy if you've only got about $22,000 to spend is on par with the number of habitable planets in our solar system. There's the Earth -- and there's not much else. The Chevy Trax is one of just two new vehicles you can still buy for a little less than $22,000.

What It Is

The Trax is a subcompact crossover and...Read more

The affordability thing is a real thing -- and Kia is trying to address it. The Seltos, which used to be all-wheel drive only, is now AWD optional. It's also larger -- and a lot nicer. At a glance, it looks like Kia's very popular Telluride -- which is also nice but starts at $39,190.

The new Seltos starts at $24,990 -- and you may be ...Read more

The Subaru Outback Wilderness begs a question that deserves an answer: Do you need a four-wheel-drive SUV to have the capability to go off-roading?

Not just off onto the grass.

If all you need is to be able to do that -- and to keep your wheels from slipping when you're on-road -- then a regular Outback with all-wheel drive will more than ...Read more

For decades, the big kahunas -- literally -- in the full-size, luxury marque SUV segment have been models like the Cadillac Escalade and the Lincoln Navigator. The Infiniti QX80 is now every bit the kahuna they are -- and, in some ways, more so.

Also a bit less so -- in that the big Q stickers for thousands less to start than either the ...Read more

There are five midsize pickups available right now, but only one even offers a manual transmission -- something that was once usually standard in pickups. The Ford Ranger, Nissan Frontier, Chevy Colorado and its GMC sibling the Canyon are all automatic only.

If you still like to row your own, there's only one choice: the Toyota Tacoma.

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Nissan's Rogue has sold very well -- notwithstanding that it's not especially roguish. It's a competent, attractively priced compact crossover -- and that's been enough.

Now Nissan's offering something more that's also different -- and even a little bit actually roguish: a plug-in hybrid drivetrain without a transmission -- it's got direct ...Read more

As the number of midsize, three-row crossovers that still come with a V6 dwindles (one of the latest casualties is the Kia Telluride), the few that still do seem almost exotic.

It's a measure of the way things we used to take for granted have to a great extent been taken away.

For now, Honda hasn't taken away the V6 that's still the standard ...Read more