Life after Ford: Mazda, Land Rover, Volvo poised to grow
Ford was in trouble. It was 2006 and Alan Mulally had just become CEO. The company was unfocused and burning cash. Mulally made a mental note of the Volvos, Jaguars,...
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Nissan expects diesel Titan XD to lift pickup sales
Sales couldn't get much worse for the Nissan Titan. With only 7,175 trucks sold through July, Titan garnered just 0.59 percent of the U.S. full-size truck market, according to Automotive...
2016 Honda Pilot navigates space between dull minivan and sleek crossover
While the last two generations of the Honda Pilot looked as if they could bust boulders with upright boxy designs, they were essentially Accord-based crossovers best suited for pavement not...
Head-up display systems project a vision of the future
Imagine a windshield that allows you to see through roof pillars, highlights upcoming turns, and even identifies the closest cafe. Or instead of following tedious navigation directions, you can follow...
Nissan resonating in U.S., on brink of becoming fifth largest automaker
It's not a pretty sight when the young stud expands into middle age. When the Pathfinder, an early product of Nissan's La Jolla, Calif., studio, debuted in 1986, it was...
Nader talks car safety on 50th anniversary of ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’
Traffic fatalities are simply the result of driver error. That was the mantra in the early '60s. Then, on November 30, 1965, a book was published on vehicle safety and...
2015 Ford F-150 King Ranch better for the boardroom than the backwoods
It requires ranch-sized ambition to take the best-selling truck on earth, cast aside long-held expectations and reinvent it. Discounting a century of steel bodies and the V-8 as holy grail,...
Rise of the efficient supercar
The BMW i8 is not your father's supercar. Lamborghini's Countach, a staple of 1980s teenager walls, would have its bull trampled by the BMW i8 plug-in hybrid. A Countach reviewed...
Car arts: Classic concept car exhibit is worth the drive
If you don't think of cars as art, you misunderstand cars. They're far more than transportation. 'Dream Cars', an exhibit of 17 special vehicles running May 3-Aug. 23 at the...
Mercedes stretches reach of S600 Maybach
Mercedes-Benz introduced Maybach in 2002 as an overreaction to Volkswagen and BMW acquiring Bentley and Rolls-Royce. It shunned the classic 600, revered by the world's elite, by sharing neither its...