Who are your best and most prof­itable dri­vers? Who is will­ing to go an extra mile? Who has a great on-time per­for­mance record? Who keeps their equip­ment in the best condition?

A heav­ily cam­ou­flaged 2014 Chevro­let Sil­ver­ado was in its final test­ing at the GM Ari­zona prov­ing grounds when this short video was shot, whet­ting the appetite of full-size truck buy­ers with a peak at the next-generation Silverado.

Safety has always been a hall­mark of the Volvo brand. With efforts in the auto indus­try to find ways to avoid acci­dents caused by dis­tracted dri­ving and devel­op­ing tech­nolo­gies lead­ing to self-driven vehi­cles, Volvo is work­ing on three new tech­nolo­gies to put them at the fore­front of these efforts. Fed­eral reg­u­la­tors and safety advo­cates have […]

Dri­ving a car can be an activ­ity of extremes. On one extreme, there’s the nod­ding tedium of dri­ving long dis­tances on an end­less empty free­way. On the other, there’s the stress of dri­ving in heavy traf­fic when you’re run­ning late for an appoint­ment and some guy swerves into your lane and cuts you off just […]

Only halfway through 2012, automak­ers are already offer­ing all-new 2013 name­plates as well as com­plete redesigns to pop­u­lar cars – and many of these vehi­cles have already arrived at deal­er­ship lots. Included in the list pro­vided by Kel­ley Blue Book are all-new name­plates – the Acura ILX, BMW X1, Cadil­lac ATS, and Sub­aru BRZ – along with redesigned mod­els from Chevro­let, Ford, Nis­san and Porsche.

They were once the vehi­cle of choice for Baby Boomers on a bud­get and oth­ers who wanted a sim­ple, afford­able and highly func­tional set of wheels. But time hasn’t been kind to the com­pact pickup which has all but van­ished from Amer­i­can show­rooms. Could those small trucks now be ripe for a come­back, however?

Ozzie Zehner (not exactly a house­hold name) wrote a book enti­tled: Green Illu­sions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Envi­ron­men­tal­ism – argu­ing that EVs are noth­ing more than envi­ron­men­tal and mar­ket­ing sym­bol­ism, can’t pro­tect us from using fos­sil fuel, built under fuel-inefficient cir­cum­stances and don’t nec­es­sar­ily reduce green­house gases. John Voel­cker, Green Car Reports edi­tor, sees light at the end of the tunnel.

Stop-start tech­nol­ogy, which Ford already has used on hybrids, saves fuel by shut­ting off the engine when the vehi­cle comes to a stop in traf­fic or at a red light. Ford esti­mates cus­tomers who buy the Fusion with stop-start will save $1,100 in gaso­line out­lays over five years of dri­ving. The $295 option will be […]

GM OnStar sub­scribers can now rent out their vehi­cles through the “RelayRides” mar­ket­place, poten­tially earn­ing hun­dreds of dol­lars a month to off­set the cost of own­ing a vehi­cle! RelayRides, the first 3^rd –party devel­oper to inte­grate with GM’s OnStar, allows renters to unlock reserved OnStar-enabled cars sim­ply by using their smart phones. Non-OnStar-enabled own­ers can still rent out their vehi­cles through the RelayRides’ marketplace.

Until recently the cost of OEM installed nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems has been a bar­rier to wide con­sumer accep­tance. As the price begins to come down, the num­ber of in-vehicle nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems is expected to grow four­fold in North Amer­ica by 2019. Automak­ers could be soon sell­ing 13 mil­lion new nav­i­ga­tions sys­tems annu­ally. Con­sumers have been using […]

Kel­ley Blue Book and NADA Used Car Guide used vehi­cle ana­lysts see used-vehicle val­ues tak­ing a drop dur­ing the com­ing months.

“Trade-in vol­ume has increased along­side new-vehicle sales, which is alle­vi­at­ing inven­tory short­ages plagu­ing deal­ers,” says Kbb’s Alec Gutier­rez. NADA UCG expects used-price depre­ci­a­tion to be a more severe in August. [More]

June’s drop in whole­sale prices was much faster than May’s (-0.8%) and April’s mod­est decline of only –0.1%; Should be retreat that still leaves both buy­ers and sell­ers in com­fort­able posi­tion, retail mar­kets unper­turbed, and profit oppor­tu­ni­ties intact.