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Hyundai: The Only Major Car Brand To Grow In The U.S. This Year

Oct. 20, 2009 | Chris Isidore | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In a year of unprecedented turmoil for the U.S. auto industry, one major car maker has emerged as a winner. And that compan...

WATCH: Honda Unveils Electric Unicycle U3-X (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.24.2009 | Technology


**See photos and video below** Honda Motor Co. has just unveiled the U3-X electric unicycle, a silver, futuristic device that looks like a cross be...

GM's New TV Commercials -- Do They Grab You?

Steve Parker | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

I like the fact that GM, having suffered from a terrible inferiority complex for the past 20 years (often based, in truth, on some pretty bad product) seems, at least for its latest commercial, to have gotten some guts back.

Harley-Davidsons Hit India's Potholed Streets

GlobalPost | Posted 09.14.2009 | World


BANGALORE �" Imagine a motorcycle designed for cruising on U.S. highways traversing through potholed roads while dodging quick-footed street vendors...

"Clunkers" Boosts Ford, Toyota sales; GM, Chrysler's Sales fall

AP | Kimberly S. Johnson and Dan Strumpf, AP Auto Writers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business


DETROIT (AP) -- The Cash for Clunkers program boosted sales at Ford, Toyota and Honda in August as consumers snapped up their fuel-efficient offerings...

Cash For Clunkers' Top-sellers, Top-Trade-ins

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home


Auto dealers reported 690,114 sales under the federal government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers rebate program, according to final data released Wedne...

690,000 Vehicles Sold Under Cash For Clunkers

AP | KEN THOMAS and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The popular Cash for Clunkers program generated nearly 700,000 new car sales during the past month, giving the U.S. auto industry a...

Honda Airbag Recalls: 440,000 Accords And Civics Could Have Lethal Defect

Reuters | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business


DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co said on Friday that it is recalling another 440,000 vehicles -- including some of its best-selling Accord and Civic...

This Weekend's Radio Show Line-ups

Steve Parker | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

This weekend on Steve Parker's, The Car Nut Show, we'll cover road test week, big shake-ups in GM's executive suites -- and at Porsche, too.

Auto Giants Reposition Globally

Diane Francis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business


Diane Francis

Cars are not longer just big business; companies have to build vehicles, but also be able to create multilateral partnerships which include workers, politicians, civil servants and investors.

Hitler Praised by Formula 1 Chief

Steve Parker | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

This isn't the first time Ecclestone and minion Max Mosley have been seen as cheerleaders of a sort for the Third Reich.

What Moves a Man to Go Minivan?

Trevor Traina | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living


Trevor Traina

Forget about premature balding or a dating-age daughter -- few things terrify most married men more than the idea of getting a minivan.

Hot Ticket Hybrids Bring Green To Carmakers

Yahoo! News | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green


Toyota Motor Corp's Prius hybrid was Japan's best-selling car in June while Honda Motor Co's rival Insight ranked fourth, helping the two hybrid leade...

A Clunky Way to Spend Billions

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green


Charles Karel Bouley

The recent Cash for Clunker legislation passed by Congress as part of the $106 billion war funding bill is a complete and total waste of a billion dollars short term, four billion long term.

Chrysler & GM: What Happens if Your Car Blows Up?

Don McNay | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


Don McNay

I know I'll never forget that horrible sight, I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right. Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve. -Jan a...

IndyCar's Danica Patrick Makes Time's 100 Most Influential People

Steve Parker | Posted 06.02.2009 | Media


Steve Parker

Here's some good automotive news for a change: The Danica Patrick IndyCar racing juggernaut keeps rolling along. And just in time for the biggest auto race of the year.

New Honda Insight Takes On Prius

New York Times | HIROKO TABUCHI | Posted 04.21.2009 | Green


The road is about to get a little more crowded for the Toyota Prius. Starting Tuesday, the Honda Motor Company will offer American consumers what it b...

Honda's hybrid Insight sells briskly Japan

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green


TOKYO — Orders for the hybrid Insight have totaled 18,000 since it hit the Japanese auto market about a month ago, outpacing Honda's target and ...

Auto Sales Nosedive To 26-Year Low

AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON and TOM KRISHER | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business


DETROIT — Consumers frightened by the prospect of losing their jobs stayed away from auto showrooms again in January and sent U.S. car and truck...

Honda's US Sales Fall In January

Reuters | Chang-Ran Kim | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business


TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co's U.S. sales in January fell by a similar margin to the 35 percent drop posted in December, and it will take several ...

Honda Cuts Managers' Pay As Sales Slump

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business


TOKYO — Honda Motor Co. said Monday managers' salaries would be slashed 5 percent starting next month to cope with sliding sales. The cut comes ...

New Honda Hybrid Challenges Prius, Promises To Revolutionize Market

Wired | Keith Buglewicz | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green


The new Honda Insight hybrid promises to revolutionize the hybrid market by making gas-electric cars affordable. But the five-door hatchback with a ro...

Some Good -- and Fun -- Automotive News for the Holidaze

Steve Parker | Posted 01.24.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

Really wish there were better news to post about, but the auto industry is reeling worldwide, and there's no better example than Toyota.

Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.

Bush Punts Auto Industry to Team Obama; UAW Concedes Even More

Steve Parker | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

This "agreement" is just another part of the recent "Bush/Cheney Revisionist History Farewell Tour." It was created to fail, just as long as that failure didn't happen while Bush was still president.