Author: Automotive News Feed

Toyota’s Calty design studio took a ‘no boring’ cars’ mantra to create the FT-1 supercar. In an 18-month race against the clock before the 2014 Detroit auto show, Calty built a spiritual pace car that may find its way to the street.

The redesigned Mercedes C-class sedan, shown at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last week, is more luxurious to differentiate it from the new entry-level CLA sedan.

A brunch, a high tea and lots of evening receptions highlight the social scene at the NADA convention in New Orleans. Here’s a sample. Events are by invitation only unless noted.

As dealers head to New Orleans for the National Automobile Dealers Association convention, they’re looking forward to this year. But they’re concerned about rising personnel expenses, linked in large part to health care costs.

Chrysler Group has parted ways with the executive responsible for the 2014 Jeep Cherokee’s innovative but initially troubled drive system.