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Mitsubishi will resurrect the Eclipse name in the new compact crossover to be unveiled next month at the Geneva auto show.

Buick’s sales success and product expansion in recent years have been driven by General Motors’ decision to incorporate platforms and vehicles from GM’s Adam Opel subsidiary into the brand’s lineup.

Key pieces of the 2018 Chevrolet Cruze diesel’s 52-mpg highway results.

General Motors hasn’t made money in Europe since Bill Clinton was president. If the world’s third-largest auto-maker fails to unload its Opel European division on PSA Group, it could look to its crosstown rival in Dearborn, Mich.

Now that General Motors is potentially selling off its European brand Opel to PSA, there is one way the automaker could stay in Europe and remain profitable: by finally taking up FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne’s offer to merge.

Three-point seat belts are effective at reducing fatalities for center rear seat passengers in cars and light trucks, a study shows. The benefit is more dramatic in passenger cars than in light trucks or SUVs.

The Cadillac XT3, a compact crossover scheduled to go on sale next year, was spotted for the first time last week during winter testing.

Since General Motors’ decision to keep the Opel division following its 2009 bankruptcy, the company has had a revolving door of executives and a tough time finding traction in the crowded European market.

Bill Baker, the legendary PR man who played a key role in Land Rover’s successful return to the U.S. in 1986, died Thursday, Feb. 16, at his home near Laguna Niguel, Calif. He was 72.

The vacuum left by the death last year of Land Rover’s utilitarian Defender has been quickly filled in the U.K. by one of the country’s fastest-growing segments: the pickup.