Crossover

This week began with the 2013 Ford F-150 shedding the camouflage that once covered the full-size light-duty truck's front-end. BMW's M branch, the performance wing of the German automaker, celebrated its 40th birthday on Wednesday and in honor of the milestone, we've compiled a list of the top five BMW ...    Read more

Ford is taking orders on their pseudo-compact vanlet, the C-Max. And the price is right: at $25,995, Ford claims that it's $500 less than the competing Toyota Prius v. The Prius v comparison is key because here's the kicker: like the Prius lineup, the C-Max will only be available in various stages of ...    Read more

Former Ford CEO Harold Arthur 'Red' Poling passed away last Saturday at his home in Pacific Grove, Calif. at the age of 86. Poling helped navigate the Blue Oval boys through some turbulent economic times back in the 1980's and can also be attributed with saving the automaker from the ...    Read more

Everywhere you look someone is gripping tightly to an iPhone, Android, or some other type of smartphone, because whatever the need, there's an app for that. As so, Hyundai announced it launched a refreshed version of Blue Link, an app that can control and peek into a variety of vital ...    Read more

If you call a mom a soccer mom, she might turn into a hockey mom and go all Mama Grizzly on you. If you think she drives a minivan, well—you'd be wrong, and as a certain Alaskan politician might insinuate, you better watch out for the claws. Or something like ...    Read more

Buick's petite Encore mini-ute is getting a bow-tied stablemate. The unfortunately-named Chevrolet Trax (a name that seems to draw in every "rad dude" reference from the mid-90s) is Chevrolet's European answer to the Buick Encore compact crossover, spoken in a French accent—when it makes its debut at the Paris Auto Show later this ...    Read more

The year: 2008. The situation: $4 gasoline and impending global economic meltdown. The hardest-hit victims other than Bernie Madoff's clients: SUVs. Truck-based sport utility vehicles have been part of American lexicon since before World War II, before they were even called SUVs. They've held a position as a rugged carryall for ...    Read more

While many states have already outlawed texting, grooming, reading, and eating while driving, Rhode Island is taking distracted driving to a whole new level. Representative Peter Palumbo, a Democrat from Cranston, R.I., has presented a bill that would outlaw dogs from riding in the lap of the driver. If this ...    Read more

Porsche announced back in late 2010 that it planned to build a new, smaller, crossover slotted under its midsized Cayenne. The sports car maker surprised the press earlier this year when it announced the new crossover would be called " Macan ". Everyone had assumed the crossover would go ...    Read more

For years, hydrogen has been touted as the great savior in clean fuels. In most uses, it's used in a fuel cell to create electricity to power a vehicle. The only emission from a hydrogen fuel cell: water. But when was the last time you saw a hydrogen filling station outside ...    Read more

The Toyota RAV4 EV broke cover at this year's Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS26), ushering in the first all-electric production crossover in the U.S.  since the automaker's last RAV4 EV packed up shop in 2003. Partnering with Tesla for design consultation and battery supply, ...    Read more

Not even a week ago, automakers from all over the globe agreed to a new standard for electric vehicle charging, called the Combined Charging System, or CCS. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler AG, and Porsche have been lobbying for the use of single-pug system (a.k.a. CCS) ...    Read more

The current Volvo XC90 premium SUV is in its tenth year. By modern automotive model cycle standards, that's about two generations—or 6-7 years—outdated. But with a new company direction revealed last winter and with the parent company acquisition a year prior to that, Volvo has seemingly placed great interest in ...    Read more

Late last year, the world got its first glimpse of the Nissan Juke-R, a concept car version of the Juke with a 485-horsepower, turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 from a Nissan GT-R shoved into it. The idea of putting the mechanical bits from a world-class sports car into a compact crossover body ...    Read more

Taking after the newly introduced BMW 3 Series sports sedan, the 2013 BMW X1 is going to come with more personalized details to suit the whims of its customers by way of xLine and Sport Line trim packages. As detailed ...    Read more

The Toyota RAV4 EV was electric before electric was cool. Although never built in great numbers, the first generation was leased in California from 1997 to 2003 and eventually sold to some private owners after Toyota's grand experiment ended with it. Now, Toyota's finally coming out with an encore, based on ...    Read more

Audi has been mentioning possible new Q crossovers and SUVs in the past several months to compete with rival German luxury automaker BMW, and the expanding market in general; now new details are emerging to give us a clearer picture as to what the Q future lineup could look like. ...    Read more

Last year might have been the toughest on record for Japan's three major automakers, Toyota, Nissan, and Honda. A strong yen partnered with the horrific natural disaster that struck Japan in March of 2011 crippled the three aforementioned automakers and all have only recently recovered. Honda was the last of ...    Read more

General Motors managed to sell more vehicles than any other automaker on planet earth in 2011 and now its CEO, Dan Akerson, is getting paid. Sort of. Last year marked Akerson's first full year at the helm of GM, and now he gets to cash in on a $7.7 million ...    Read more

The 2013 Ford Escape comes with three engines, all of which the EPA says will get at least 30 miles per gallon or better. The smallest engine is a 1.6-liter four-cylinder Ecoboost turbo, which produces 178 horsepower. Ford says it gets 5 more mpg than the previous model, at 33 mpg ...    Read more

Car enthusiast favorite Mazda has been taking it on the chin the past few years, from its separation with Ford, the earthquake—and subsequent tsunami—in Japan, and reduced sales as Americans insist on fuel efficient vehicles versus fun-to-drive ones ("zoom-zoom!"). The automaker has addressed most of these issues; parts supplies are ...    Read more

At the request of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the United States government has decided to extend the comment period on distracted driving regulations that would affect what technology makes it into new vehicles. The deadline was originally set to expire today, but thanks to the extension automakers have until ...    Read more

For years, Ford trucks and SUVs like the F-150 and Explorer were the bread and butter for the automaker here in the states. While the Ford F-150 still continues to be a cash cow, Ford has made a 180 degree turn and now is refocusing its energies on passenger cars ...    Read more

Details are emerging on the 2013 Audi Q5, and from the looks of it, Audi is following suit with its company-wide effort to make for a leaner, more efficient fleet. The German automaker's midsize SUV has been largely popular for its sleek styling, and trademark Audi interior paired with excellent ...    Read more

Victoria Beckham -- singer, reality star, and wife to soccer god David Beckham -- has added car designer to her already long list of accomplishments. At this year's Beijing Motor Show, the Range Rover Evoque "Victoria Beckham" Special Edition made its debut onto the runway. We first became aware of Ms ...    Read more