Wheels
With a Saw and a Big Budget, Owners Transform Cars Into Convertibles
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
Automakers have pulled many convertible models, leaving lovers of top-down driving to find their own solutions.
Although the car is dressed in luxury livery, even inexperienced drivers will sense the sports car in its bones.
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
Yoshihiro Masui has a Ford hot-rod. His love of American cars is unusual in Japan.
Trump Wants More American Cars in Japan. Japan’s Drivers Don’t.
By JONATHAN SOBLE
Even Japanese fans of cars from the United States point to company missteps that make American vehicles unappealing there.
Gordon Welters for The New York Times
Ole Harms on the last day in his old office in Wolfsburg, Germany, in December. Mr. Harms, chief executive at MOIA, a Volkswagen-backed ride-hailing start-up, moved to Berlin, which has a growing tech scene.
German Automakers Step Up to Silicon Valley Challenge
By JACK EWING and MARK SCOTT
BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen are striving with increasing urgency to ride the digital wave sweeping the industry, before it rolls over them.
Supplier’s Role Shows Breadth of VW’s Deceit
By JACK EWING
The German company Bosch will pay $327.5 million to vehicle owners in the United States over claims that it helped devise software to cheat on tests.
What Volkswagen Settlements Mean for Vehicle Owners
By JACK EWING
The company’s various deals include an offer to buy back or fix faulty diesels — and either way, additional cash compensation of up to $17,500.
U.S. Car, Truck Sales Downshift in January; Toyota Falls 11 Percent
By REUTERS
U.S. car and light truck sales slipped 1.8 percent in January as automakers pulled back on bulk sales to rental, government and business fleets and concentrated on more profitable retail sales to individual consumers.
Tesla S Falls Short of Luxury Rivals on Tougher Safety Test
By CHERYL JENSEN
The Model S electric sedan did not receive either of the two safety awards given by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Uber Partners With Daimler in a Step Toward a Driverless Future
By MIKE ISAAC
The move marks the first time a major automaker will provide its own self-driving vehicles specifically to operate on the ride-hailing company’s network.
Tesla Gives the California Power Grid a Battery Boost
By DIANE CARDWELL
A whirlwind three-month project is helping the luxury carmaker transform itself into a multifaceted clean energy company.
Your Money
How to Buy a Used Car in an Age of Widespread Recalls
By RON LIEBER
Dealers are scrambling every which way amid a recall of over 60 million Takata airbags, and consumers need to ask some very pointed questions.
Common Sense
Elon Musk Has Trump’s Ear, and Wall Street Takes Note
By JAMES B. STEWART
The political tide might seem unfavorable for electric cars and solar panels, but the new president may see them as part of a job-producing future.
Ex-Volkswagen Chief Investigated by Germany in Emissions Cheating Scandal
By JACK EWING
The fraud inquiry against Martin Winterkorn comes after the automaker pleaded guilty in the United States to violating the Clean Air Act.
VW Executive, Hired to Help Overhaul Carmaker’s Culture, Is to Leave
By PRASHANT S. RAO
The surprise departure of Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt raises questions about the company’s willingness to change after the diesel deception scandal.
Trump, in Meeting, Urges Automakers to Build in United States
By BILL VLASIC
The tenor of the White House meeting with the chief executives of the three Detroit automakers appeared far more cooperative than adversarial.
Tesla’s Self-Driving System Cleared in Deadly Crash
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
The highway agency found that while Tesla’s Autopilot feature didn’t prevent a crash in Florida, the system performed as it was intended.
Ex-Chief of VW Holds Firm During Grilling on Emissions Deception
By ALISON SMALE and JACK EWING
Martin Winterkorn, appearing in public for the first time since his resignation, told German lawmakers that he had not heard the term “defeat device” before the scandal broke.
Driven
Video Review: Nissan Sentra Nismo Offers Affordable Spunk, but Underwhelms
By TOM VOELK
Enthusiasts on a budget have a new way to carve curves and attract radar guns. But hard-core asphalt jockeys will want more.
Wheels
China’s Answer to Tesla Is Hopeful Entrant to Global Car Market
By MICHAEL SCHUMAN
Electric vehicles offer a new chance to Chinese car-making efforts that have floundered in the past. But lavish state aid could be as much bane as boon.
Wheels
A Whiff of a New-Car Smell, Just a Page Flip Away
By JAMES G. COBB
For Steve Hayes, a childhood hobby turned into a collection of 13,500 automotive marketing brochures. Most of them will soon be up for sale.
By Announcing New Jobs, Corporations Help Themselves Too
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and BILL VLASIC
In promoting plans to add jobs, some of which have long been in the works, companies help position themselves favorably with the Trump administration.
Wheels
Coming From Automakers: Voice Control That Understands You Better
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE and NICK WINGFIELD
Ford Motor is announcing it will incorporate Amazon’s Alexa into its vehicles, one of many efforts by automakers to improve voice-recognition systems.
Texas Journal
Rodeo Offers a 90-M.P.H. Glimpse of Texans’ Truck Mania
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
Because no other state has a bigger influence on the American truck world, the title of Truck of Texas can bring an automaker to tears.
Wheels
Would-Be Carmakers Tap the Wisdom, and Dollars, of Crowds
By ERIC A. TAUB
Start-up vehicle companies, often using quirky designs, are turning to crowdfunding to finance their challenges to the established automakers.
Wheels
Driving Down Memory Lane in the Original Minivan
By NICK KURCZEWSKI
An appreciative turn behind the wheel of a 1984 Dodge Caravan, the car that made the station wagon obsolete and paved the way for the S.U.V.
Wheels
Automakers Prepare for an America That’s Over the Whole Car Thing
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
Mobility services — ride hailing and other means of ferrying people to public transportation — look to be a lucrative and increasingly important sideline for carmakers.
Cars Talking to One Another? They Could Under Proposed Safety Rules
By CECILIA KANG
Under the rules, cars would be able to use wireless technology to detect if another vehicle was moving too fast in their direction and headed for a collision.
Wheels
Out of Africa, an All-Road Honda Motorcycle
By NORMAN MAYERSOHN
The arrival of a new Africa Twin is well timed to a surge of interest in bikes suited to long-distance treks, pavement optional.
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