As gasoline prices dangerously inch closer to their 2008 peak, Scotia Economics reports that Canadian and American consumers are massively turning to more efficient vehicles.
Today's Heavy-Duty pickups are marketed to farmers, contractors, weekend toy-haulers and fifth-wheel enthusiasts like ten tonnes of four-wheeled testosterone. Do you need 3-inch wide leaf springs? 765 lb.-ft of torque and nearly 4,200 lbs. of payload capacity? What about an exhaust 'jake' brake or a transmission designed for military equipment? How's about a frame structure with the torsional rigidity of a steel girder?
Dallara and the IZOD IndyCar Series have unveiled today the mockups of their 2012 concept car for both oval races as well as its companion the road/street course model at the Indianapolis Speedway.
Renesas Electronics, the world's biggest maker of automotive microcontrollers and a key bottleneck in Japan's parts shortage, aims to restore pre-earthquake output levels by October, with the first chips shipping to customers in August.
Fresh images and new details on Focus ST as it prepares for 2012 on sale date.

With its new roadside-assistance tool, Audi joins the crew of carmakers creating smartphone apps.
With its new roadside-assistance tool, Audi joins the crew of carmakers creating smartphone apps.
The cars are lined up, the experts are ready and the campers are headed to Michigan for the second-annual AutoWeek/ZF Fantasy Camp, an event for car nuts to talk, test and write about cars.
Ford product gurus are hard at work flogging prototypes of the 2012 Focus ST on challenging roads around the world in preparation of the hot hatch's launch next year.
Dealers and industry leaders today remembered Robert Stempel as a true 'car guy' and a gentleman who took charge of General Motors during a tumultuous period in the early 1990s.
General Motors said Tuesday that it will invest about $2 billion in 17 plants across eight states in the United States.
GM said today that it will invest about $2 billion in 17 plants across eight states in the United States. 'We are doing this because we are confident about demand for our vehicles and the economy,' GM CEO Dan Akerson said in a statement.
More than 100 former GM executives have sued the automaker in federal court to recover pension benefits reduced during the automaker's 2009 bankruptcy.
The Flying Lady figurine known as the Spirit of Ecstasy has crowned the hood of every Rolls-Royce for a century. It's about time a photographer took interest.
The maker of Subaru-brand cars has tapped a marketing and sales specialist to be the company's new president and lead global automotive operations in the post-quake era.
The maker of Subaru-brand cars has tapped a marketing and sales specialist to be the company's new president and lead global automotive operations in the post-quake era.
In his career-defining role as J. R. Ewing in the TV drama Dallas, actor Larry Hagman usually drove a Mercedes-Benz sedan, or sometimes a Cadillac Allante.
Also in today's show: Remembering Robert Stempel, NHTSA broadens its probe of the Ford F-150, and we test-drive the Chrysler 200.
When most people see dandelions, they go for the weed killer. Ford goes for the fertilizer.