The past 18 months have brought a see change in the automotive industry's attitude toward cybersecurity. What was generally considered a non-issue as recently as early 2014 has suddenly become one of the most important issues to deal with and most of…

It’s been two years since Aptiv launched one of the world’s first robotaxi pilot tests in partnership with Lyft in Las Vegas. In the first weeks and months of the program, riders could only get to and from a couple of dozen venues along the Las Vegas…

Recently a video clip popped up online of what was clearly a Ford Mustang Mach-E sans multiple body panels drifting around a test track at high speed. Shot from within the adjacent trees, it was clearly meant to imply that someone was sneaking around…

Having a commercially successful product requires many factors to come together. First, the product has to be good enough to meet customer needs. It needs to priced right. It also needs to come to market at the right time. When General Motors…

With each passing month it seems like autonomous cars become more inevitable with the question being when rather than if. Whether the fully self-driving car arrives in five years or 15, we’ll continue to see cars steadily adopt greater degrees of…

For the first 20 years of the Lexus brand's existence, performance was not really a descriptor that came to mind when you thought of Toyota's luxury lineup. They were smooth, quiet, refined, reliable, but frankly not all that exciting. Then Lexus…

Over the past eight years, Elon Musk has garnered a lot of attention for Tesla TSLA vehicles thanks to wickedly fast off-the-line acceleration. But long before that, in fact even before Musk was born, Ford was turning out factory-built drag race cars…

As cars in general and small cars in particular continue to lose ground to SUVs and trucks in the American market, Nissan has actually been doing better than most brands. Through October, Nissan has sold more than 115,000 of its subcompact Versas,…

Beginning in fall 2017, students and staff at the University of Michigan will have a new way of getting around at least part of the sprawling campus, a pair of driverless shuttle vans. Two Navya Arma shuttles will be operated by the Mcity autonomous…

There’s no arguing the fact that the American car buyer’s appetite for cars, particularly sedans is on the wane. It’s far from gone with more than three million midsize cars moving off dealer lots in 2016. But the trend is clear and GM has recognized…