Category: Motor Age Articles

Porsche’s 191 U.S. dealers will build out a retailer-based network of fast chargers to support the automaker’s first battery-electric vehicle, which arrives late this year.

Stepping into the world of electric cars is making even the most hallowed performance brands rethink how they market their vehicles, and Porsche is no exception. 

DETROIT — The 2019 Detroit auto show drew 774,179 total ticketed attendees this year, a drop of 4.3 percent, or 35,000 people from last year. The 16-day Cobo Center event — which includes media, industry and public days — was its last show in the w…

Subaru restarted its sole car factory in Japan after halting the plant for almost two weeks because of a suspected defect in a power-steering component.

Nissan faces an inquiry from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission following the automaker’s indictment in Japan for allegedly making false disclosures in its annual securities reports about compensation owed to former Chairman Carlos Ghosn.

The connection to Detroit is exactly what Cadillac was trying to get away from under marketing chief Deborah Wahl’s predecessor.

Toyota is gearing up for a shift into electric vehicles with plans to make its own next-generation batteries with electronics giant Panasonic and even sell them to other automakers.

Magna CEO Don Walker says the company is gearing up to produce the cameras, radar and lidar units needed for collision avoidance systems that automakers have begun installing in conventional vehicles.

Analysts predict a lackluster automotive market in 2019 amid uncertainties such as rising interest rates and federal tariffs in addition to record-high vehicle prices.

When does a gasoline shortage feel like a lucky break? When you’re an automaker trying to sell hybrids and EVs to a curious but skeptical public.