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2013 Ram V6 Boasts Best-in-Class Fuel Efficiency
Move over, horsepower wars (or, for trucks, torque wars). It's now time for the fuel economy wars! In all seriousness, we are probably at or near a peak in which future...
Detroit 3, CAW Prepare For Difficult Contract Talks
The funny thing about the car business, or indeed nearly every business, is that it's very much about people. Whether those people happen to be the famous ones that run a...
London Olympics’ Mini MINI Coopers Provide Entertainment, Controversy
MINI may not build the most reliable cars (at least according to our friends at TrueDelta.com, where the Cooper has roughly double the repair frequency of a Honda Civic), but...
Spyker Sues GM for Saab Bankruptcy
Put this one in the "no good deed goes unpunished" file. Today, Spyker (the former owner of Saab, before Saab went belly-up last year) announced that it is suing GM for $3...
Mitsubishi To Export 2013 Outlander Sports From Illinois
Finally, here's some good news for the beleaguered three diamond company. Mitsubishi announced that it has commenced production of the 2013 Outlander Sport at the Normal, Ill....
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen To Close French Auto Plant
For the past decade or two, folks in North America - particularly in the US and Canada - have watched all automobile manufacturing plant after plant being shuttered, particularly...
Falling Lithium Ion Prices Could Spur EV Adoption
Remember when plasma TVs were $10,000? Well, now they're less than $400 - and that's for a Panasonic 42" model at Wal-Mart, not even a Chinese knockoff unknown brand. Well, if...
Right-to-Repair Initiative on the Ballot in Massachusetts
Decades ago, there were millions of "shade tree" mechanics who could tweak, maintain, upgrade, and repair nearly every part of their car, the same way they could work on a small...
IIHS Reports Mixed Results For Collision-Avoidance Technology
There was a time during some of our readers' lifetimes when vehicle safety meant a padded dashboard (on a car with only drum brakes). But hey, you survived, and so did I. When...