In an era when automakers face the prospect of having to increase fleet average fuel economy from 35.1 mpg in 2016 to 54.5 mpg in 2025, the idea of building still more SUVs would seem to be completely anathema. Despite that Ford vice-president of…

Ever since a mid-1980s corporate reorganization, General Motors has been on a path toward a consolidation of its once diverse powertrain operations. For the better part of the past decade that process has included bringing all of its powertrain…

Over the past half-decade, countless startups have appeared on the landscape with the hope of disrupting the more-than-century-old automotive industry with automated driving. Increasingly, those small players are getting gobbled up by the incumbents…

Now that Tesla has finally revealed, the Model 3, I can happily say that I was wrong on at least two major points in my recent column on how much the company’s first affordable electric car would actually cost. However, given that the Model 3 is…

The era of the car that talks to its surroundings is now upon us. Audi has announced that several of its 2017 model vehicles including the Q7 and A4 will be the first in the U.S. to be equipped with vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications.…

Timing, as they say, is everything. If the right product comes to market at the wrong time, no matter how good or appropriate it might be, it’s likely to be doomed to failure.
About a decade ago, Toyota was riding high on the popularity of the Prius,…

Unlike the Detroit automakers that have all but abandoned the traditional passenger car in favor of crossovers, SUVs and pickups, Asian brands like Hyundai are sticking with the sedan form factor and even bringing us new variations. Hyundai launched…

Recently at an event in Germany, officials from Mercedes-Benz announced plans to introduce the GLC F-Cell in 2017. This is a version of the compact GLC SUV with a fuel-cell, plug-in hybrid drivetrain. As so often happens, this got my mind working…

Few individual nameplates have mirrored their brands more closely than the MKZ has for Lincoln over the past dozen years. For most if not all of the model’s existence, the MKZ had been the best selling Lincoln. Despite generally being well regarded,…

There's no denying it, the car is a slowly dying breed in the American automotive market. Everyone it seems wants utility vehicles, especially those of the subcompact and compact varieties. The latest automaker to enter this burgeoning market is…