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In a market where SUVs are moving into customer hands at breakneck speeds while cars languish, you might think that a company like Ford would be refreshing its utilities on a regular basis. While true for some of its higher volume utilities, the two…

The author is a senior analyst on the Transportation Efficiencies team at Navigant Research

If you throw a party and all of your invited guests show up but your caterer bails, who should you blame when some of those guests post about it on Facebook? The guests? Or the no-show caterer? For David Sloan, president of the Chicago Automotive…

Among the automakers based in the Detroit area (at least with a physical presence if not in a legal sense) Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has been in the peculiar position of being both prominent and a laggard when it comes to automated driving. Through…

It should come as no surprise that the big news from Lincoln at the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show will be the debut of the production version of the new Aviator crossover. However, the first detail we’re getting about the three-row utility that goes…

Five years ago when Dieter Zetsche and Carlos Ghosn formed a partnership between Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance, one of the first products to be added to the roadmap was a compact crossover for Infiniti. At the time, Infiniti was looking for…

Contrary to the common wisdom in much of the media today, as well as those ensconced in the San Francisco Bay Area, California is not the center of the known universe. Believe it or not, a lot of interesting things happen outside the coastal regions…

When automakers started producing and selling modern plug-in electric vehicles over the past decade, they did so without a real plan for how they were going to make a profit. The push for those vehicles was largely based on government mandates. As…

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,…

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…