One of Toyota's numerous non-car-building business is getting into a new field tangentially related to cars. Toyota Industries Corp. is developing a new solar-powered charging station for plug-in vehicles. In Toyota City, where the automaker is…

With the U.S. dollar reaching an all-time low against the euro, EU-based manufacturers are looking to the United States as a low cost manufacturing site. Audi's parent company Volkswagen has been contemplating building an assembly plant somewhere in…

Mitsubishi recently brought its iMiEV road show down under to Australia. One reviewer who sampled the little electric four door was pleased with the driving experience but less impressed with some other aspects of the car. As we and others that have…

Next-gen Ford Focus live unveiling – Click above for high-res image gallery
After unveiling the new Focus Monday, Ford made another announcement at the Detroit Auto Show about its battery plans. Like General Motors and other automakers, Ford has…

Toyota only made the decision to abandon its Formula One program a few weeks ago, but the lead time for developing a new car is a much longer than that. The engineering team at Toyota's Cologne F1 headquarters had been working on the 2010 car for…

Since the second half of 2007, the price of diesel fuel in the United States climbed from its traditional place selling at or below the price of regular gas to a point 15-20 percent higher than premium through much of 2008. For automakers that were…

T.J. Donaghy runs a chauffeured car hire service in Orlando, Florida. It's one of those services that you can call up and a driver turns up at your door in a big black sedan to shuttle you around and you pay by the hour. The Lincoln Town Car has been…

Chrysler has created some B-Roll footage of the Dodge Demon concept on the road and posted it up on YouTube. The clip is is intended for use as background footage to accompany news reports on the car, so it has no audio track. You'll just have add…

In the first few years after Honda and Toyota introduced the Insight and Prius to the market, the price premium and limited utility of the vehicles meant they appealed mostly the most environmentally conscious drivers. As more manufacturers introduce…

Click above for a high-res image gallery of the Nissan NV2500
Today at the Nissan Technical Center in Farmington Hills, MI, Nissan revealed its new NV2500 concept commercial van. The NV2500 is a preview of its upcoming light commercial vehicle that…