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After a rocky couple of years, VW keeps on racking up honors for its products. This time it was named to Kelley Blue Book's coolest cars list.

There’s no question in the automotive industry that crossover and SUV sales have long outsold sedans in North America, that’s a given So why does Honda embrace the 4-door sedan as demonstrated through Clarity and the soon to arrive Insight?

Porsche has issued a recall for roughly 300 of its 2015 918 Spyders. The problem is with corrosion in connecting arms that can affect vehicle control.

Though you probably have guessed it, it does take a lot of work to get a race car ready for a race that hasn't run yet. If you are wondering, here are some of the details of the VW ID R.

If you could be a fly on the wall in many automotive companies you would probably hear lots of griping about safety recalls; their cost, and their impact. Listening to that would make you think that the industry doesn't support the NHTSA recall program -- they do, but with forced smiles. However, the industry also realizes the recalls are needed because they help consumers know their products are safe.

Honda’s Accord Touring is without question the maker’s most powerful Accord offering of all time. We’ve reported on the driving dynamics of Honda’s reinvented Accord extensively. Now, It's time to review 2018 Honda Accord from the back seat.

With a combined total of about 45 percent of total sales, VW's Atlas and Tiguan are carrying the automaker's sales boom. With sedan sales lagging -- the Golf family is the exception -- the automaker must be happy that Atlas is in the mix.

For some years, Tesla has been the de facto electric vehicle market leader. Then again, why wouldn't it be? There was no one to challenge its leadership. Well, with the change in the automotive world, Tesla had better watch out.

Once nearly the kings of the market, electric vehicles lost ground to internal combustion engined cars due to changes in technology that increased the range of the internal combustion vehicles.

Volkswagen has added another 71,000 vehicles to its Takata-related airbag inflator recall. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the automaker is recalling 2006-07 Passat sedans and wagons to check out their and replace the airbag inflators, if needed.

2018 Honda Accord is “North America Car of the Year.” Nonetheless, Toyota Camry outsells Accord by a meaningful margine. Torque News takes a closer look.

Volkswagen's former chief exec was named in an indictment Thursday that charged him with conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with the Dieselgate scandal.

Volkswagen's Electrify American subsidiary has begun to invest some of the $2 billion that VW committed as part of its diesel emissions scandal settlement.

Led by Atlas and Tiguan, Volkswagen continues to shake the sales doldrums that had engulfed it only a year or two ago due to the diesel emissions scandal.

Volkswagen has officially taken the wraps off its Pikes Peak challenger, the I.D. R and has partially wrung it out at the Spa circuit in Ales, Belgium. The smile on driver Romain Dumas' faces says it all.

Henry Ford once said about his Model T, "you can have any color as long as it's black". When I was a kid in the 60's the cars in my neighborhood were always painted cool colors. One neighbor owned a 59 Nash Rambler painted Plumb Purple. There were Orange Plymouth Road Runners. We had a Harvest Gold 67 Chevy Impala wagon. With the spring weather here I am seeing all the classic cars out riding around the neighborhood. And they are beautiful.

As part of its 1.16 million car recall, Audi will be fixing two key cooling pump issues. The issues both can cause fires if they are not completed.

Audi recalls 1.16 vehicles to repair fault with electrical coolant pump. Automaker launches 2nd global recall for the vehicles.

Lately I have been seeing in blogs and Facebook pages words of disdain directed at Elon Musk and Tesla cars. Those of us who own electric cars and plug-in hybrids have our loyalties. I love my Volt and I do find myself being critical of other brands. I don't want to be a Volt snob.

Although it already holds the Nordschleife lap record, it appears that Porsche may be mounting a new effort with its 913 Hybrid Evo supercar.

For the first time in six years, Volkswagen is making changes in its venerable logo. Well-known, the logo is undergoing changes to make it more usable with digital media and devices like smartphones.

The Red Bull Global Rallycross short track series has closed and locked its doors and turned out the lights as it has stiffed tracks and facilities from coast to coast.

Volkswagen, facing a major product push in the next seven years, has tapped Herbert Diess to take over as the automaker's new CEO, replacing Matthias Mueller. Mueller presided over the automaker in the wake of the Dieselgate scandal.

After all this time and work plus hundreds of thousands of turbodiesels in storage, VW still have to find 10,000 VWs to complete this program.

Without question there’s a lot of hype circulating these days as to the eminent future of the electrified car. 2018 Honda Clarity is the maker’s portal to a primarily electric-car future. Torque News takes a closer look.

Are self-driving cars ready for prime time? Torque News looks at the issue and finds that well, maybe, sort of, they aren't, but will be a few years from now.

Out of all fairness to Genesis, our 2018 G80 test vehicle shows 11,000 miles on the odometer. It’s been driven. And frankly, this review could be titled “Used Genesis G80 holds up well under abuse,” knowing that this ultimate sport sedan has been beaten and abused by the press corp.

Audi's Q5 wins award for its interior.

Porsche's latest research venture points to a change in the way we may commute. How would you like to fly to your next appointment?

It’s not often that we find a bargain priced 3-row SUV that dives as good as it looks, in rolls Mazda's SUV flagship. Fuel Sensitive 2018 Mazda CX-9 presents an interesting fuel related variable horsepower option while holding MSRP on overall package value, and much more. Torque News takes a closer look.