Jamie Butters

Bernhard Kuhnt, CEO of BMW of North America, introduces the new BMW X2 SUV during a media preview at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, January 15, 2018.
The 228-horsepower xDrive28i, which goes on sale in the U.S. in March, is powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine. It's mated to an eight-speed transmission. The 192-horsepower sDrive28i goes on sale later this spring.

American automakers scrap cars, ceding market to foreign makes

August 18, 2019 at 9:39 p.m.

With lucrative sport utility vehicle and truck sales on the ascent, Detroit automakers are racing to ditch slow-selling cars in favor of the big rigs that mint money. Chief Executive...

Subaru poised to surpass Hyundai with Ascent SUV

June 1, 2019 at 7:06 a.m.

Subaru picked an apt time to roll out a new model whose name is synonymous with moving up. The carmaker started the auto show season by showing off the new...

Tesla Model 3 delivery day raises more questions than answers

June 1, 2019 at 7:03 a.m.

Tesla's Model 3 handover party Friday (8:45 p.m. PDT at Tesla.com) is a long-awaited moment for thousands of consumers who've coveted its cars but couldn't afford one. Yet with the...

Hertz's stock cratered after it reported its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. The rental car company lost nearly half its market share before recovering a bit.

Hertz Global replaces CEO after earnings misses, stock slump

June 12, 2018 at 8:34 a.m.

Hertz Global Holdings, the rental-car company whose shares have plummeted this year, named Kathryn Marinello as chief executive officer to replace John Tague, a former airline executive who came aboard...

Toyota, Honda top safest cars list for 2017

June 1, 2019 at 6:56 a.m.

Only 38 models were awarded the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's designation of Top Safety Pick+, down from 48 on the initial list for the 2016 model year. Toyota led...

Price wars on pickups such as the 2017 Ram 1500 Lone Star Silver Edition have given customers the biggest incentives on full-size trucks since the recession.

Pickup truck incentives reach recession-era high

June 1, 2019 at 6:56 a.m.

It's a good time to buy a truck. To hold a slowing market at bay, carmakers in the U.S. are offering the biggest incentives on full-sized pickups since December 2008,...

PAYING THE TAB

August 11, 2021 at 5:44 a.m.

You'd expect that Lee Stava meticulously cares for his truck. Keeping things running is what he does. Surely, Stava, a maintenance supervisor at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center...

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