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It's undoubtedly a sign of the times when stalwart luxury automakers are downsizing their engines to boost sales. Mercedes-Benz and BMW have already reduced their engine output, in some configurations and now you can count Jaguar in too. Today, at the 2012 Beijing Motor Show, Jaguar unveiled two new powertrains that ...    Read more

A few years back, Chevrolet created a laugh-worthy marketing campaign, lauding its cars as "An American Revolution." It wouldn't have been so funny if one of the most prominent new cars in its advertisements weren't the Chevrolet Aveo, a much-criticized little car made in South Korea by what used to ...    Read more

Nissan has a terrible history of long waits and vague pictures teasing its new vehicles before they actually go on sale. The same would hold true for the 2013 Nissan Sentra compact sedan if it weren't for a little ...    Read more

Our fellow reporters' lost looks echoed our own feelings as we stepped into the Mercedes-Benz Transmission LA event at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). While we were covering the latest automotive news deep with the confines of our offices, they had spent the day gunning ...    Read more

Car enthusiasts considered the Pontiac G8 sedan as one of the best Pontiacs built for General Motors' sporty brand. Unfortunately, the Pontiac G8 was also the brand's swan song; GM shut down Pontiac, along with HUMMER and Saturn, in 2009. Since then, car enthusiasts have been foretelling the "rebirth" ...    Read more

Yesterday we posted about leaked images of the Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupe which will debut this evening at an avant garde art party at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and, in a few weeks, at the Beijing Auto Show. We were spot on in our speculation that the Mercedes ...    Read more

When Americans rejected diesel-powered cars as smokey, wheezy, and loud in the early 80s, Europeans continued to embrace the technology for its excellent fuel efficiency, refinement, and torque—pulling force of an engine. Of course, it didn't help that the American-designed passenger car diesels of the era were some of the ...    Read more

Last month, Mercedes-Benz surprised the autosphere with news that it would be unveiling a "concept style coupe" vehicle at, of all places, an avant garde art party at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Mercedes later mentioned it would debut an all-new sedan at the upcoming Beijing ...    Read more

GM has spent much of the past several months prepping for the debut of the all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS luxury sedan, and more recently has spared little effort on the forthcoming "BMW 3 Series-killer," the 2013 Cadillac ATS. While the new Cadillac models won't be on sale for months, the ...    Read more

Pop quiz: When was the last time you saw a new Suzuki car? We mean a new one, not a ratty Esteem on the side of the freeway, and certainly not of the two-wheeled variety. The painfully underrated Kisazhi is a unicorn on these roads. The SX4 dates to ...    Read more

It's been a little while coming, but it appears Infiniti is finally set to make a serious run at German competitors Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Thanks to an interview with an anonymous source close to the Japanese automaker, the 2014 model year is shaping up as a busy one for Infiniti. ...    Read more

A federal probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has led to the investigation of 16 crashes, five of which resulted in injuries, in 2002 to 2008 BMW 7 Series sedans for transmission control problems. The NHTSA had begun researching the crashes last August because the cars' electronic transmission controls ...    Read more

"This is not a typical court case," Judge Dudley W. Gray II said at 10:07 Friday morning. He'd go on to repeat himself another half-dozen times in front of an audience of 22 people on hand for the appeals hearing of Heather Peters v. American Honda in his Torrance, Calif. ...    Read more

When shopping for a new vehicle, there are few things that grab a potential buyer's attention like safety and the bottom-line price. So what happens when those two aforementioned features compete for the number one consideration for finding your next ride? Not to worry, we here at Automotive.com have already ...    Read more

As luck may have it, even beleaguered brands make gems every once in a while. But as good as a car or truck may be, luck doesn't always favor those whose saving grace comes at the last minute. There's very little in the car market that we outright hate, but a little schadenfreude ...    Read more

Porsche has announced today that it has acquired the Nardo Technical Center from Prototipo SpA. Known as the "Nardo Ring" by those familiar with it, the oval track features 7.8-miles of open road and steep embankments. The track was designed specifically with high embankments so test cars could circle it ...    Read more

Zipcar, the trendy hourly rental car service for sophisticated urbanites and car-hating youths, will be adding a lot of advanced Honda electric vehicles to its lineup—everything from plug-ins to hybrids, all with the big H in front. Honda will provide the car sharing network with the new Fit EV, which ...    Read more

Volkswagen is issuing two recalls, one on the 2012 VW Passat sedan and the other on its VW Routan minivan. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the 2012 Volkswagen Passat's diesel fuel filter may not have been properly sealed. The federal agency speculates that the issue could lead to ...    Read more

Ford Motor Co. is recalling its model year 2012 Ford Focus subcompact. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the connector to the Ford Focus' passenger side wiper motor has been improperly sealed (i.e., the seal is missing). The federal agency hypothesizes that debris could accumulate in the connector ...    Read more

Just like that, the first week of April 2012 has come to a grinding halt. This past week was one of the busiest the automotive world has seen in recent months thanks to manufacturers like Infiniti announcing it will be moving operations out of Japan because of the ...    Read more

Toyota has released pricing details on several vehicles for luxury brand Lexus. The popular Lexus RX mid-size crossover saw a small price jump for model year 2013. The 2013 Lexus RX 350 with FWD now costs $40,185 MSRP, a $235 increase from the 2012 model. The 2013 Lexus RX 350 with ...    Read more

Four (yes, four) MY2012 Mitsubishi Lancer and Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback vehicles are being recalled by the automaker. According to both Mitsubishi Motors and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the headlamps on th 2012 Lancer and Sportback were improperly installed, their horizontal adjustment mechanism not sealed ...    Read more

The second day of the last major North American auto show until November wasn't nearly as jam-packed as the first, but it still proved to have plenty of cars and trucks that will undoubtedly shake up the market. Most of them were fairly mainstream; one of them—the Terrafugia—notably wasn't. That's ...    Read more

At the 2012 New York International Auto Show, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn made it known that Infiniti will be moving its production facilities from Japan to an undetermined location. No timetable or destinations have been mentioned yet, but Ghosn acknowledged that a decision would be coming shortly. "You won't have to ...    Read more

You know you're in the presence of tough company when your CEO says 26,771 midsize cars sold last month alone just wasn't good enough. But Honda's Tetsuo Iwamura isn't used to his company's 2012 Honda Accord playing third behind the Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima in the family sedan arena. "We are not ...    Read more