A small but growing band of drivers are fueling their cars and trucks with used frying oil. But they have a new problem: corporate competition.
The Maybach isn't the most expensive car in the world, but it is the highest-price line of autos made by Mercedes-Benz. A look at why it costs $500,000.
Diminutive, loud, eager, winsome, but a trifle uncoordinated, the Juke is like a caffeinated preschooler, says Dan Neil.
Jesse Valadez was the long-time president of the Imperials Car Club and proud owner of Gypsy Rose, perhaps the most famous lowrider on the planet.
The Ford Focus Titanium approaches being a realistic—if underpowered—competitor to small Audis and BMWs, says Dan Neil.
To shorten ever-growing commutes, will drivers pay money to take faster lanes and avoid traffic?
Despite rising concern over roadside pollution levels and tax-break incentives to buy zero-emissions vehicles, electric cars aren't yet creating much spark.
No one needs 556 horsepower to haul groceries and pick up the kids, making the CTS-V Sport Wagon a mere marketing exercise, says Dan Neil—but he loves it for never being boring.
In Eyes on the Road, Joe White talks with NHTSA Chief David Strickland on the auto-safety issues the agency will be focusing on in the future.
With Volvo offering an automated pedestrian-avoidance system in its new S60 sedan, Dan Neil ponders the strangely tangled ethics of deciding whether to pay extra to protect people outside your car.
Maybe it's the recession or the fact that frugal is the new black, but the personal chauffeured car is getting a downgrade. Here's how to unpimp your ride without having to cab it.
The recent restructuring of the U.S. auto industry was painful, politically controversial and costly, but the crisis has pushed Detroit to make better vehicles.
Dan Neil shares the lessons of the North American International Auto Show, from the challenges facing Volkswagen to the rightness of the U.S. auto bailouts.
The Dakar off-road rally stirred its fair share of controversy in West Africa, but with the security threats in Mauritania, it switched to Chile and Argentina a few years ago. Now the race is kicking up a new cloud of dust and passions in South America.
Does America need a party wagon with clamshell doors? Joe White looks at the concept cars to be unveiled at the Detroit auto show.
Mercedes-Benz unveiled its next C-Class sport sedan in a Detroit hotel but doesn't plan to show it during the North American International Auto Show that begins in Detroit this week.
Porsche says its Panamera S Hybrid, set to go on sale later this year, will be the most fuel efficient Porshce ever built.
Electric-car fever is rising again. But to appreciate the obstacles standing in the way, you don't need to talk to skeptics. Instead, you can listen to the people who believe in electric vehicles, and are investing in those beliefs.
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GM is looking to boost exports of its cars made in China despite the impact of a rising yuan and plans to launch more than 20 new or redesigned cars there over the next two years.
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Ford Motor said it would take a $60 million charge to earnings in the first quarter to redeem $3 billion in debt in a bid to regain an investment grade rating.
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