On Monday of this week, German Prime Minister Angela Merkel met with President Obama in Washington and then addressed the US Congress, where she was warmly greeted, and made an impassioned address concerning the environment and global warming.

She was on top of the world when, just minutes later, she...

The SEMA Show, the annual automotive bacchanal and extravaganza staged by the Specialty Equipment Market Association, world's largest lobbying group for aftermarket and performance car parts, and thought by many to be the best car show in the world, especially if you're a gearhead (like us) opens in Las Vegas...

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Nissan's all-new...

Nissan has announced a US national tour of their new pure EV, Leaf, and its first American public showings begin November 13th in southern California. Leaf is ready for its close-up at the Tokyo Motor Show

Much of the talk at this week's...

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The federal government is forming a new agency to protect consumers against finance company, credit card and...

Now that we all know the power of the insurance and banking industries when it comes to lobbying your government, add car dealers and their lobbyists to that list.

The House Financial Services Committee approved a key amendment Thursday, 47-21, to keep automobile dealers under the federal and state laws...

Question: Can Harley-Davidson survive the world economic disaster?

The company itself paints a bleak picture of its present and future. To quote from an October 15 corporate press release:

Worldwide retail sales of new Harley-Davidson motorcycles declined 21.3 percent in the third quarter compared to last year's third quarter,...

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Toyota recently got a lot of attention with their recall of 3.8 million cars and trucks in...

Amazingly, a serious safety problem which has plagued Ford vehicles for well over a decade has arisen again, this time involving 4.5 million vehicles, meaning a total of at least 16 million cars and trucks have been recalled over the years for this one specific problem.

Stop me if you've...

Somewhere, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has tears in his eyes. His favorite vehicle, Hummer, has left the building. Its sale was announced today.

The Guvernator was in large part personally responsible for the military HumVee, built by AM General in Mishawaka, Indiana, being turned into a civilian vehicle and sold...

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Is Toyota "losing it" when it comes to quality? The president of the company seems to think...

Martin Zimmerman, my friend and the crack automotive business reporter at the Los Angeles Times, reported (along with Bloomberg News):

Toyota Motor Corp. has joined the growing ranks of automakers planning to bring advanced battery-powered vehicles to consumers in the next few years.

The Japanese automaker said it...

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The biggest recall in Toyota's history in the US --- 3.8 million cars and trucks...

Today, Roger Penske called off talks for his takeover of Saturn, almost certainly dooming yet another General Motors division.

For so many months, it's seemed like a slam dunk for one of the auto world's smartest and richest executives.

Penske, whose racing team has won a record 15 Indy 500s,...

Toyota has announced the largest recall of vehicles in its US history.

According to the Associated Press, "Toyota says it will recall 3.8 million vehicles in the United States to address problems with a removable floor mat that could interfere with the vehicle's accelerator and cause a crash.

The...

One of the great enjoyments for car nuts, at least this one, are new and exhaustively detailed books on our favorite topic ... with plenty of photos.

When those books are about people and topics we know personally, that makes the books that much more interesting and exciting ... and...

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Join two-time Emmy Award-winner Steve Parker, also automotive writer for the Huffington Post, NBC-TV auto show Whipnotic...

While it's beyond me why GM is using Ed Whiteacre in a new TV spot, their new board of directors chief, who said at his first press conference that he doesn't know much about cars, one of the new Cadillac commercials is right-on.

First, the Caddy commercial, one of four...

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GM is offering an unprecedented deal for new car buyers --- a money-back, 60-day guarantee on whatever...

In what may be one of the biggest scandals ever in motor racing, Flavio Briatore, flamboyant team principal of the ING Renault Formula 1 Grand Prix team and Pat Symonds, Renault F1's director of engineering, have both resigned their positions under a heavy, dark cloud of charges and suspicions.