A key family hauler for much of the 20th century now accounts for a sliver of the American auto market. If the automobile business in the United States is indeed a cyclical affair, the station wagon is due for a renaissance. Just don’t hold your breath. The station wagon — …
At a time when most of humanity lives in cities, where do cars belong — especially the old, polluting ones that make city air foul for people to breathe? That question has vexed city officials across the world. Many are trying a variety of measures to reimagine the role of …
Almost two-fifths of Turkish cars run on liquefied petroleum gas IN HIS GARAGE in outer Warsaw, Piotr Sliwa inspects the slick new gas installations under the bonnet of an aged Skoda. Since 1996, Mr Sliwa’s family has generated extra cash by converting conventional petrol and diesel engines to Autogas, a …
The number of children who have died as a result of being left in a hot vehicle is on pace to break last year’s record, according to two different sets of data. According to the National Safety Council, 51 children have died this year as a result of being left in …
DETROIT (AP) — The number of people killed by drivers running red lights has hit a 10-year high, and AAA is urging drivers and pedestrians to use caution at traffic signals. In 2017, the latest figures available, 939 people were killed by vehicles blowing through red lights, according to a …
For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back. The summer I was eighteen, I visited a parking lot forty-five minutes north of town and got behind the wheel for what I hoped would be the first real rite of my adulthood. I was tall, gangly, excitable. …
India recorded an eighth successive month of falling car sales Wednesday, with June seeing a 25 percent decrease, adding to a multi-day slump in Indian stocks. Industry data showed passenger vehicle sales falling 17.5 percent last month year-on-year to 225,732 units, with domestic car sales off 25 percent. Sales of …
PUEBLA, Mexico (Reuters) – Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) rolled the last Beetle off the assembly line on Wednesday, the end of the road for a car that ran from Nazi Germany through hippie counterculture but failed to navigate a swerve in consumer tastes toward SUVs. Serenaded by a mariachi band and surrounded …
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico. It’s the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning the eight decades since 1938. It has been: …
“If you can’t have a real Corvette, you can at least drive something designed to look like one,” said an employee of the Villages’ big golf-cart store. Plenty of the golf carts that roam the roads of the Villages in Florida look as if they had just come from the …
Energy Absolute already won over a group of five taxi unions, which ordered 3,500 cars for metropolitan Bangkok. It’s the epitome of a closed circuit: the utility helping power one of Southeast Asia’s biggest cities is building electric cars, batteries and charging stations for the nascent market, and then supplying …
Analysts still see all major automakers reporting monthly drop Edmunds says slow-moving inventory led to ‘blockbuster’ deals Carmakers rolled out big discounts in May aimed at clearing inventory, but Memorial Day promotions probably still failed to stem the tide of a shrinking U.S. auto market. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate …