| 2012 car sales top past 5 years |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
Auto sales in 2012 were the best they've ever been since 2007. Chrysler saw the biggest gain with a 21 percent increase. Ford's overall sales rose 4.7 percent in 2012. General Motors posted ...
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| Car Sales Accelerate Heading Into 2013 |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
A worker checks one of the Kia Cee'd frames manufactured at the newly built Kia car factory near the northern Slovakian city of Zilina, Dec. 7, 2006. If car buyers heard about the fiscal cliff ...
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| U.S. Auto Sales End 2012 on Strong Note |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
HONDA CIVICS and Honda CRVs are seen outside a Honda car dealership in Des Plaines, Ill. The U.S. auto industry ended 2012 on a high note, with December sales the strongest they have been since ...
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| Honda Ads Tout Continuous Improvement, 2013 Civic |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
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The 2013 Honda Civic is vastly improved over the 2012 model, and Honda wants you to know about it. While the Japanese automaker still sold heaps of 2012 Civics, the media—including a few of us here—were none to impressed by the lack of effort, and overall blandness of the previous model. In our editors’ collective [...]
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| 2012′s Top-Selling Cars, Trucks, SUVs, and Crossovers |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
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While we’re not quite back at the pre-recession high of 17 million vehicles sold in the U.S. in a single year, 2012′s 15.3 million wasn’t too shabby after 2011′s 14.49 million. Those both blow the recession low of just under 11 million new vehicles sold out of the water. It’s safe to say that Americans [...]
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| 2014 Mazda6 Officially Priced, Gets EPA Fuel Economy Ratings |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
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The 2014 Mazda6 midsize sedan goes on sale this month, and the stylish 6′s just released EPA fuel economy ratings put it at the top of the class. The 2014 Mazda6 will come with a choice of manual or automatic six-speed transmission, and the manual receives ratings of 25 mpg city and 37 mpg highway. [...]
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| The Continental: Carrying Quattro and M GmbH Forward, a New Design School, and Sayonara, Daihatsu |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
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Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental. Audi is reconsidering its styling language. Many journalists and critics have weighed in over the past [...]
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| Analysts: U.S. Car Market Will Continue to Grow Toward Pre-Recession Levels in 2013 |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
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Early next week, you’ll be able to read our analysis of auto sales in the U.S. in 2012, but for now, we’re checking in with number-crunching industry analysts looking to the coming year. Though far sharper than your local weather guy, automotive sales forecasters still are aiming for precision in an impossibly imprecise task. Resulting [...]
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| Heads Up, Southern LeMons Racers: Southern Discomfort Entry Deadline Is Tomorrow! |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
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The last 24 Hours of LeMons race at Carolina Motorsports Park in South Carolina was one of the best of all time, what with NASCAR legend Gary Nelson sneaking his Crown Vic into Class B and the NSF Racing 1950 Mercedes-Benz winning the Index of Effluency even after it flipped over—we expect the next race [...]
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| Subaru Issues Massive Recall |
Jan 4th, 2013 |
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 Subaru is recalling 633,842 model year 2010 and 2011 Legacy and Outback vehicles, model year 2006 through 2012 Tribeca vehicles sold before January, and model year 2009 through 2012 Forester vehicles sold before January 2012.
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