Consider this: Honda has added a year to the Civic's lifecycle. When the new '12 model finally arrives late next year, it had better be another segment-buster and not a slightly smaller Accord.
New-car sales in Summit County downshifted a bit recently. In June, new-vehicle sales in Summit County fell by 100 vehicles, or 6 percent, from a year ago, according to figures from the Akron-based Northeast Ohio Auto Dealers Association.
Daniel Gross isn't fazed by the Volt's price tag because he thinks it will come down.
What took so long? The 2011 Ford Fiesta. Behold the Ford Fiesta. The newest addition to Ford's fleet is cute and perky, with solid handling and gas mileage that will make greeniacs grin.
Until last weekend, I thought that envy was the one deadly sin to which I could plead an emphatic Not Guilty.
July 30, 2010: The next generation Ford Focus has been tested in some of the most extreme locations on the planet.
The following is an abridged version of an article that appears in the August 09, 2010, print and iPad editions of TIME magazine.
Two nights of Demolition Derby will bring the fans to the Ventura County Fair Motorsports Show.
There's no question the new Focus is not as good to look at as the previous car - but in every other respect the Ford has got off to a promising start.
With the landslide of all-new small cars being introduced this year and over the next several model years-including the 2011 Ford Fiesta, 2011 Mazda2, and 2012 Fiat 500-you might assume that small-car sales are going strong, and that the forecast for subcompacts in the U.S. is bullish.
Used car shopping used to be a scary maze of breakdown-prone models, but reliability has gained sharply.
Mikko Hirvonen heads the pack in the shakedown for Rally Finland, albeit just 0.1 seconds up on Jari-Matti Latvala and Sebastien Loeb.
The automotive world is tilting on its axis, and electric cars are about to become reality.
The Ford Focus 2010 line-up received some upgrades this year yet remained at the Php779,000 starting price.
Ford Motor Co. plans to complete its sale of Volvo Cars to China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Co.
A Porsche 917, possibly the most revered racing car of all time, swings into Arnage corner, and exits with a wail and just a nudge of opposite lock.
Cutting-edge technology never comes cheaply. Automakers routinely subsidize it in new cars in new markets to gain a foothold, or even a competitive advantage--and still can lose money on innovation.Does Nissan plan to lose money with its upcoming electric car, the 2011 Leaf? "We don't," says Nissan director of product planning Mark Perry.
Renault is rolling out an integrated campaign encouraging British consumers to think more positively about the French car marque.
Four years ago, Ford mortgaged everything down to the blue oval logo to save itself.
Ford reported a second quarter profit of $2.6 billion today, marking the automaker's best quarterly performance in six years and easily beating Wall Street expectations.