Every auto show, these days, is "all about plug-in cars and hybrids," they say. Everyone's gawking at the cherry on top while few notice how different the ice cream underneath is.
Detroit automakers got shut out of honors at their hometown's auto show Monday as the Hyundai Elantra and the Range Rover Evoque won North American car and truck of the year awards.
Motor Trend magazine named Land Rover's Range Rover Evoque as SUV of the Year Tuesday.
General Motors unveiled the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle on Tuesday, allowing outsiders their first full look at the car GM says will go on sale in 2010.
Photos published on several automotive Web sites Monday show a production version of the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in electric car General Motors plans to produce in 2010.
A car that drives on land and drives through water will make its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland.
The world's automakers will try to win customers over with more environmentally friendly cars at the Frankfurt Auto Show this week as they tout new vehicles with hybrid propulsion and more advanced, cleaner engines.
Things are a teensy bit weird here in Detroit. It's a cross between Wacky Wednesday and Alice in Wonderland: Nothing is as it should be, and some things are downright trippy.
When Mercedes-Benz began to contemplate its next generation of high-efficiency small cars, it sought aquatic inspiration.
General Motors released photos of a convertible Chevrolet Camaro concept vehicle Thursday. The car will be unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show on Sunday.
At the 2006 Paris Motor Show, which opens to the press on Thursday, Dodge will unveil a new Avenger sedan concept.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater.
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We've all seen videos of racecar crashes in which the vehicle disintegrates spectacularly into smoke and flame and flying, spinning debris--and the driver emerges miraculously unscathed. Those happ...
A futuristic General Motors bus from 1950 sold for $4 million at a collectible car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., Saturday.
Last year's $3.24 million sale of a 1954 Oldsmobile concept car at a Scottsdale, Ariz. auto auction definitely got the attention of automobile collectors.
With an appearance that draws heavily from the classic muscle cars of the late 1960s and early '70s, the Dodge Challenger, premiering in concept car form at next week's Detroit Auto Show, should satisfy those who thought the 4-door Dodge Charger just didn't have the right stuff.
Porsche announced today at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany that it will build a hybrid version of its Cayenne SUV.
Jeep unveiled two concept vehicles at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany today that, a company executive said, hint at a worldwide portfolio expansion for the off-road brand.
An innovative Antarctic exploration vehicle has been unveiled by London's Royal College of Art and the British Antarctic Survey.
Maybach, DaimlerChrysler's ultra-high-end luxury car brand, unveiled a 700-horsepower twin-turbocharged V12 concept car in Berlin today.
A golden 1954 Oldsmobile concept car sold at auction this weekend for $3.24 million.
In the 1950s, they used to call them "dream cars." Now they call them "concept cars," reflecting the serious thinking behind cars that have two engines, the ability to rotate in place or wide-screen TVs instead of rear windows.
This is not your father's Saturn.
DaimlerChrysler revealed a design for Jeep pick-up truck concept vehicle on Tuesday. If the company eventually produces a similar vehicle, it would be Jeep's first pick-up since the 1992 model year.
DaimlerChrysler revealed a design for Jeep pick-up truck concept vehicle on Tuesday. If the company eventually produces a similar vehicle, it would be Jeep's first pick-up since the 1992 model year.
The biennial Tokyo Motor Show used to be a showplace for the wackiest automotive ideas seen since GM's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair. But the most recent installment, which opened in Oc...
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There's a cute minicar called Ka zipping around Europe that wears a Ford badge on its grille. Yet much of its development was done by a three-year-old company you probably haven't heard of: MSX Int...
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Judging from the forward-thinking, risk-taking machines on display at last month's North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the car industry is enjoying a lavish renaissance. Inspired par...
Close your eyes and picture yards of buttery pastel leather, yawning chrome grilles, ferocious V-8s, rare-wood exterior panels. Mmmmm. Now imagine vehicles with names like Thunderbird, Charger, Imp...
If two heads really were better than one, nobody would need to read this pair of books, which, from different vantage points, take aim at the same problem: group stupidity. Persons individually sma...
General Motors' woes took a lot of the usual sparkle out of this year's Detroit auto show. Short of cash, GM canceled its corporate display and showed far fewer special-concept cars than in the pas...
WELCOME TO the world's preeminent automobile exposition -- the biennial Tokyo Motor Show, recently playing at a vast new hotel and convention complex slightly to the east of Tokyo Disneyland. On pr...
IN HIS State of the Union address in January, President Bush asked, ''Which of our citizens will lead us in this next American century?'' The answer, in part, can be found here and on the following...
Workers at Lockheed are proud, and their office walls show it: News clips and photos of the startlingly angular F-117A Stealth fighter are everywhere. But nobody is flying higher because of the air...
They are the hope of corporate America, at least according to their press clippings. They will rebuild our sagging companies from within. They will stave off the Japanese challenge. They will be ho...
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