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Lotus has announced that they will not be attending the Paris Auto Salon this year, after making a huge splash two years ago with not one, but six concepts. Now, with top-level shakeups, the company is re-thinking its global strategy.

Occasionally as auto writers, we have the opportunity to drive both traditional internal combustion engine and hybrid electric variants of the same model, allowing a comparison of the virtues and vices of either mode as it applies to driver’s needs.

This is the first of a multi-part series on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard and how it affects American automotive, for good or ill. This part looks at the storied history of CAFE, which was born as a tribute to unintended consequences and continued meddling.

Phrases marketing like "extended range electric vehicle" serve a marketing purpose while creating confusion about the meaning of phrases like "electric car", "plug-in hybrid," and can lead to poor decisions by misinformed car purchasers.

These two Japanese inventions changed automotive reliability forever. One of them is the sole reason nearly every gasoline vehicle made has a service life longer than 150,000 miles with proper maintenance and the other explains why your vehicle's starter doesn't need rebuilding regularly.

Automobile and truck sales have surged this year, with 7.3 million retailed during the first six months of 2012, while the housing industry shows signs of life, but still is not in full-blown recovery.

Most electric vehicles that are releasing in the next couple of years are not really meant for a wide audience, but instead exist only to make California regulators happy.

New research reveals that four million motorists have suffered from ‘dashboard denial’ in the last year, ignoring a warning light for five days or more.

Three days of car show began in St. Ignace, Michigan with a kick-off cruise event followed by parade the second day. The videos will do most of the reporting.

While carmakers struggle to turn a profit at any cost, many fail to see what gets people out to buy cars. Ford reminds us it that automobiles are more than moving vehicles, they are accessibility platforms.

Our cars are getting more and more robotic and have been doing so since they first appeared.

The price dynamics of the weekly chart of General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) stock do not lie regarding the recent trend bias. Question is: Will the lows hold?

While a bipartisan committee endeavors to drive to a compromise on a comprehensive transportation bill balanced between the positions of Democrats and Republicans, states across the land are locked in a race to fund the repair and maintenance of state highways, bridges and roads.

Pay attention to these local car shows, especially the 2012 Lions Car Show in Center Line, Michigan, because they will provide you with a great view of automotive enthusiasts and their rides at their very best; and we have videos to prove it.

Many of the 118,000 salaried retirees are bitterly stating they will never buy another GM vehicle; and anyone who discounts the effects their numbers can have on sales should reconsider.

The big news this morning is a dramatic drop in fuel prices by the time Halloween rolls around – and that's not entirely good news.

Upon reading the latest report in the WSJ on natural gas engines, Hugo Tour, inventor of the opposed piston, split-cycle Tour Engine, had a few words to say about dual fuels and the advantage of his engine technology approach.

With the flurry of pros and cons of the electric car articles written, we tend to lose the bigger scope of why these cars are showing up on our streets.

In a scathing letter to GM Chairman and CEO, Daniel Ackerson, the GMRA which represents salaried retirees expressed absolute consternation and disgust with GM's decision.

Bankrupt automaker Saab has been purchased by a consortium of Chinese and Japanese companies specializing in clean energy technology investment, who plans to resurrect Saab as an electric car maker with sales initially targeted for the Chinese electric car market.

University of California at Berkeley visiting scholar Ozzie Zehner has published a book titled Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism charging hybrid and electric cars are neither clean nor green, presumably based upon the mining impacts, toxins, energy use, suburban sprawl and carbon footprints resulting from the fabrication process.

The Tesla Roadster inspired a wave of change in the automobile industry leading to the rise of all electric cars like the Nissan Leaf, what changes will the Tesla Model S inspire in the industry?

Often treated as a questionable classic that received a bad name it didn't deserve, the Corvair was a forward-thinking car produced in the 1960s; and after seeing a 1964 model, fully restored, and speaking with its owner, a few things come to light about this overlooked beauty.

The sedan will make its world debut at the 2012 Moscow Auto Salon taking place between August 29 – September 9 of this year, where it will share the floor with the rest of the Astra family. Plus, note the video gallery of photos.

A recent research report by Pike Research indicates plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are set to be some of the most “connected” vehicles on the road. Can you guess the percentage for the year, 2017?

We all remember coming of age, getting our driver's license and then pining after our first car. For most of us not born with a silver spoon, our first car was less than desirable, but now we look back on that old beater with fondness. Here are the best cars for today's coming of age.

Ever wonder where the idiot in the rental car in front of you might be from? Here is a handy guide to American driving styles.

Whether you believe in buying high and selling higher, or in buying low and selling higher, the important point is to at least buy wholesale, not retail; especially when it comes to rare earth material stocks which supply magnets to the auto industry.

It doesn't have anything to do with peace or electric vehicles. We'll dissect a Subaru Impreza Premium PZEV for answers to this conundrum of marketing, science, and politics. Mostly politics.

In addition to the latest 8-K filing by A123 Systems, Inc, (Nasdaq: AONE) which reads more like a death watch message to investors, the chart has been saying it all along.