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Environmental activists smell blood in the water. And why not? Last year they were successful at getting Congress to act on their behalf and increase the Corporate Average Fuel Economy guidelines.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she wants a quick vote next week to allow the troubled domestic auto industry to tap into the $700 billion Wall Street bailout.

Japan's leading automakers are beating Detroit's Big Three in the plunging U.S. auto market, but they would sustain enormous damage if one of the domestic carmakers collapsed.

How often does a 41-year-old guy get the chance to wear leather pants and no one notice? Drive up in a Lamborghini and it almost looks natural. During four days of test driving the all-new 2009 Gallardo LP560-- 4, I could have been in a man-kini and no one would have cared. Everyone would still want to be my friend as long as I held the keys to this supercar.

The dramatic outcome of the presidential election has been accompanied by signs that even the most ill-informed of the politicians in Washington -- including the current president who shunned Detroit's previous cries for help -- now understand that the U.S. auto industry is in a state of deep crisis.

Drive your old "beater" to a cruise-in and remarkable things can happen.

Munich - The Toyota Prius hybrid continues to lead the Eco-Test rankings conducted annually by Germany's automobile association (ADAC) which measured fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in a special test. None of the 800 cars tested achieve...

Hamburg - Smart car-to-car communication will one day make traffic jams obsolete and significantly improve road safety. That is the vision of several major car makers who recently presented the technology under realistic driving conditions at a test ...

Cologne, Germany - A modified Audi A4 B7 quattro has achieved a world speed record of 327.2 kilometres per hour running on an alternative bio-gas fuel processed from grass, the German technical testing authority (TUeV) Rhineland has announced. We wa...

SHANGHAI, China -- General Motors Corp. plans to increase its stake in its thriving joint venture with Chinese automakers SAIC and Wuling Automobile, media reports said Wednesday, citing a senior SAIC executive.