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Were you worried about Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne going hungry after not collecting a paycheck from Chrysler in 2011? Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief. It turns out that while Marchionne didn't collect on his 2011 salary ...    Read more

Corporate sibling and "lifestyle" publication Automobile Magazine recently covered the upcoming refreshed Mercedes-Benz E-Class, which is tentatively schedule to make a bow in 2013. The most interesting changes from the consumer side is the inclusion of more electronic gadgetry. "Congestion assistant" allows the E-Class to follow vehicles ahead even during lane ...    Read more

Three seconds. Three freakin' seconds. Out of a seven-second teaser video Nissan made available today for the upcoming 2013 Nissan Altima sedan, not even half the time is spent actually showing the new midsize sedan. And yet, us writer folk are drawn toward talking about it like a mosquito to ...    Read more

Could a smaller version of Chrysler's 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine be on its way? That seems to be the case. Two sources familiar with plans of a new 3.2-liter version of Chrysler's award-winning Pentastar V-6 engine told Automotive News it's less than a year away from becoming a reality. The ...    Read more

In July 2010, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration began an investigation into the Volkswagen Passat. The Passats, built from 2002 to 2003 with turbocharged four-cylinder engines, were catching fire due to faulty ignition coils. After the investigation expanded into 2001 to 2007 Passat models, 43 actual fires—and 83 incidents ...    Read more

Over the past year or so, the Dodge Avenger has enjoyed somewhat of a comeback, as the sedan has seen a spike in sales recently. Yesterday, Dodge announced it will be adding another model to the Avenger stable, bringing the total number to five. The SE V-6 is the latest ...    Read more

Nissan is recalling 8,120 Infiniti M45 sedans made for the 2003 and 2004 model year over concerns of a fuel gauge that may reader higher than it actually is. Select M45s produced from March 7, 2002 through June 3, 2004 are being called into question. The problem is being attributed ...    Read more

NASCAR received its third attempt from an automaker to bring brand identity back to the senior circuit yesterday morning. Dodge officially unveiled the 2013 Charger destined for service in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series starting next year to a crowded infield at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The development of the latest ...    Read more

As the first full week of March comes to a close, we take a few minutes to reflect on everything that happened over the last five days in the automotive world. This past week brought a whole bunch of new or redesigned vehicles into the world, using the Geneva Motor ...    Read more

For the second straight year, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has declined his annual salary and bonus as the Detroit-based automaker works to nurse itself back to full-strength once again. Don't worry about Marchionne. He's also in charge of running Fiat S.p.A.—Chrysler's parent company—and as head of the Italian automaker he ...    Read more

General Motors has issued details on the full engine lineup for the upcoming 2013 Chevrolet Malibu sedan. We already know about the maximum fuel economy offered by the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco model, which gets an EPA-estimated 25 mpg city and 37 mpg. The Chevy Malibu achieves these figures due to ...    Read more

Chrysler has big plans for the 2013 Ram 1500. As revealed in papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the next Ram will get the award-winning Pentastar V-6 as the base engine, along with an eight-speed automatic transmission. The addition of the Pentastar V-6 engine comes as a welcome sign ...    Read more

There's lots of talk about natural gas these days, with increased demand for the cheaper, cleaner fuel. Honda sees this as an opportunity, keeping an eye on the fuel's recent popularity boom to get more people into its 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas models. The only problem is that compressed natural ...    Read more

Last month, we posted footage on the all-new 2013 Nissan Pathfinder, needlessly camouflaged since the full-size crossover had already been seen in all its sheetmetal glory at the 2012 Detroit Motor Show in January. In the Nissan Pathfinder video, we caught glimpses of another camouflaged vehicle—a sedan—which we quickly ...    Read more

Manabu Nishimae, President of Honda Europe, announced the automaker's plans for the European automotive market at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show this week, and dropped a few other tidbits of the company's future engine plans that could make their way Stateside as well. The major jaw-dropping news is the ...    Read more

This week, Ford is upgrading SYNC and MyFord Touch on the cars of hundreds of thousands of owners. And the upgrade kit it is mailing out comes in the form of 3 pamphlets, a USB thumb drive, a user guide, an SD card for navigation-equipped cars, an introductory letter for ...    Read more

Nissan is recalling 2003 to 2005 Infiniti Q45 luxury cars to replace a wiring connector in the side airbag modules that could cause a malfunction. Because of the faulty wiring connector in seat-mounted airbags, electrical resistance could make them fail to deploy in the event of a collision. That, in ...    Read more

Plenty has happened between when we drove the 2012 Kia Rio 5-door hatchback last October and now. Last year at that time, we swarmed Austin, Texas, with the likes of dozens of other media outlets for a chance to drive Kia's latest ...    Read more

Have you ever asked yourself, "why, I love my handcrafted, Connolly-lined $300,000 luxury ship, but it's just lacking that extra touch of lugg-jury?" Well you're in luck Mr. Ewing, because Bentley is adding enough in-car entertainment and luxury features on top of the Mulsanne to make sure captains ...    Read more

There's a wiring harness under the seat of many Volvos that could disconnect if you move the seat back. What's that wiring harness connected to? The side airbags and seat belt pretensioner, and therein lies the importance of Volvo's upcoming recall: the two might not deploy, rendering the Swedish meatball's ...    Read more

The Nissan name has successfully succeeded the defunct Datsun for almost three decades, as the Japanese automaker moved its products to its global namesake in 1983. Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, Americans were hesitant to buy Japanese cars, but there's no way you could dislike a name as ...    Read more

The 2013 Nissan Altima is the secret that isn't. Several of our staffers have seen camouflaged prototypes of the next-generation midsize sedan driving around Los Angeles. There have been pictures of uncovered cars scattered across the internet. And yet, here ...    Read more

Automotive journalists, despite the number of cars they drive per year, still play a little word association game—especially when they're charged with the odious task of personally recommending a car. Think "Honda," and the first word is "reliability." Think "Volkswagen," however, and the first word will usually the exact opposite, ...    Read more

Have you been wondering what the 2013 Jaguar XF Sportbrake will look like in the figurative flesh? Well wonder no longer as photos of Jaguar's latest hatchback have made their way onto the internet. Originally slated to officially bow at the Geneva Motor Show next month, instead this photo has ...    Read more

There's a whole lot of strange floating around in the Nevada desert. Like, Joshua Trees and curious burros are weird enough, but even more so when whooshing by them sitting in the back of a $66,000 Hyundai with "mode 2" of the back-seat massager on. Other things are surreal; the ...    Read more