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EXECUTIVE WES RAYNAL: I?m always amazed that a car nearly three feet shorter than a Chevy Suburban can weigh almost as much. That said, I?ve always liked Land Rovers, and I still like the LR3. I like its quirky Britishness.

Havana - The characteristic roar of engines heralds the arrival of the coveted Harley Davidson motorcycles. Slowly, pairs of proud riders parade down Havana's Malecon outside the US Interests Section and the statue of Cuban independence hero, Jose Ma...

Hamburg - High fuel prices are triggering major changes in the car market worldwide with customers turning their backs on fuel-guzzlers and the industry rethinking its product line-up. In the United States, the world's largest car market, the sales f...

Hamburg - Honda has come out tops for the second time in succession in terms of customer satisfaction and service in Germany, according to a market survey released by the JD Power-report 2008. The institute polled 19,000 motorists and asked them how ...

When U.S. auto sales slumped last month to their lowest levels in more than a decade, Toyota suffered as much as anyone else.

Automakers face a tougher battery of crash tests under a long-awaited overhaul of the federal government's 30-year-old crash test rating system but won a 14-month reprieve before the new ratings take effect, giving them time to improve upcoming models.

Canadian Auto Workers president Basil "Buzz" Eldon Hargrove, known as a hard-line union leader, announced his retirement Tuesday. Union leaders quickly endorsed as his successor a former Chrysler Canada assembly worker from Windsor who vows to fight against two-tier wages and concessions that American auto workers already have accepted.

There are two reasons to buy a hybrid: better gas mileage and environmental concerns. Mother Earth may hope for the latter, but the overwhelming reason most drivers want to buy a gas-electric hybrid is to use less gas, especially with prices at the pump staying above $4 a gallon.

Is the high price of gas driving you to drafting? If so, you are adopting one of the more dangerous, not to mention illegal, practices used by people desperate to save fuel.

Depending on your age, the first car you "drove" may have had a fiberglass body and a slot into which you dropped a penny, nickel, dime or even a quarter. At that point, the car revved up and started to move back and forth and up and down, as though you were driving down a somewhat bumpy road.