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For '60s muscle-car fans and young tuners alike, there'll be four offerings by spring -- a Dodge Challenger (out now), a Ford Mustang, a Chevy Camaro and a Hyundai Genesis. It's going to be a long, cold, lonely winter for carmakers, but spring could be heavenly for hot rodders (if they have some dough).

There are several ways to tour Germany's capital, but for those who want to steep themselves in cold war history, a Trabant transports you to the 1960s.

With 510 horsepower burbling from the DBS's V-12 engine, supervillains and angry stockholders quickly vanish in the rear-view mirror.

The day before Thanksgiving was a moment of reckoning for white-collar workers who were offered buyout deals.

It's been estimated that 800,000 Trabants survive, so it's fair to ask: what happened to the other 2,296,099?

Q: I have a 1996 Plymouth Breeze, and ever since I had the fuel pump replaced with a used one, it doesn't start normally.

Q: I have a 1996 Plymouth Breeze, and ever since I had the fuel pump replaced with a used one, it doesn't start normally.

Q: I have a 1996 Plymouth Breeze, and ever since I had the fuel pump replaced with a used one, it doesn't start normally.

The residents of this town are learning to enjoy Korean barbecue, and are wary of bailing out American automakers. 'The foreign cars took the lead, and they deserve it,' says one. This attractive old mill town along the Chattahoochee River, with its brick downtown and streets of cozy, unpretentious homes, could be the backdrop for a patriotic American car commercial -- lacking only the plaintive croak of a Bob Seger or John Mellencamp.

Distressed US auto major General Motors is mulling the possible elimination of some of its brands including Hummer, Pontiac, Saturn and Saab to present them as cost-saving measures in a restructuring plan meant to convince US lawmakers for $12 billion in low-cost loans.