Sunday was a big day for record-making and -breaking in NASCAR. Jimmie Johnson placed fifth in the Homestead/Miami race, but he's Number One --- again --- in America's favorite motorsport.

Johnson has won his fourth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup title --- the first driver ever in NASCAR's 61-year history to...

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Ford's family of Fusion cars has been named "Motor Trend 2010 Car of the Year," awarding the car probably the best-known (and trusted) prize in the automotive consumer world.

The Fusion was chosen best of 23 new or significantly upgraded vehicles that were eligible for the award after a week...

In 1947, Tokyo Electric Cars Company built a lead-acid battery powered EV delivery truck called the Tama which it sold through 1950, when oil supplies and prices stabilized after WWII (cars and trucks were also powered by flammable gasses captured from on-board wood-burning stoves in Europe and Japan in those...

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Nissan's all-new 2011 Leaf "pure...

For its first public showings outside Japan, Nissan's all-new Leaf "pure EV" plug-in electric sedan, due on-sale worldwide as a 2012 model, will see the first light of an American day at a press-only event this Friday morning at Dodger Stadium featuring Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, and later that day,...

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,...