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Waymo, the autonomous taxi company that's offered rides in Los Angeles since November, is expanding its service area in the city.

Starting Wednesday, the driverless taxis will roam more than 120 square miles of Los Angeles County, stretching from Santa Monica to downtown and from West Hollywood to Inglewood. The expanded service area will ...Read more

Tesla Inc. swept the top four slots of Cars.com's 2025 American-Made Index, and Jeep parent Stellantis NV and General Motors Co. contributed just three vehicles — with Ford Motor Co. completely absent from the top 20.

Publication of the list from the automotive online marketplace comes amid scrutiny by the Trump administration of the ...Read more

LE MANS, France — For 15 years, Cadillac has been assembling the pieces to reassert itself as the Standard of the World. A cornerstone of that plan has been to take on its international competition in their backyards, at the track, on the world’s biggest stages.

From the 24 Hours of Le Mans to Paris to Miami, that vision has bloomed in 2025...Read more

There are lots of crossovers that look like SUVs but aren't. Few can pull more than 3,500 pounds, and none are built on a truck-type, rear-wheel-drive based layout. That's why they are crossovers rather than SUVs.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Crossovers are fine for people who want a vehicle that's good in the snow and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Even after lawmakers and President Donald Trump canceled California’s strictest-in-the-nation automotive emissions standards, Stellantis NV remains on the hook for electric vehicle sales requirements that will be difficult to meet.

That’s because the transatlantic automaker signed a settlement agreement in 2024 promising to ...Read more

Q: In a previous column, you told C.W. that their car may have received the "sunshine treatment." I have never heard that expression and tried looking it up. No luck.

M.L., Evanston, Illinois

A: Allow me to shed some light. It’s an industry euphemism for doing nothing but letting the car sit on the lot. (It also works on cloudy or rainy days...Read more

Everyone knows the long, drawn out process of buying a car. First, you have to find what you want, what you like, what looks good, what is in your budget, what is comfortable, what your neighbor doesn’t have and, lastly, what suits your family's needs, Acura helps you solve this puzzle with the 2025 Acura RDX A-Spec AWD.

Wrapped in Urban Gray...Read more

Its new styling may be called sophisticated, but the 2025 Subaru Forester retains the boxy, rather utilitarian look for which it is known. It’s not fast or sporty either.

But folks (especially adventurous ones to whom Subaru directs its marketing) tend to keep returning to their compact Subie crossover. For many in hilly or snowy regions, it�...Read more

PARIS — With beautiful, branded shop windows and broad boulevards punctuated by ornate architecture, downtown Paris is the intersection of new-world fashion and old-world grandeur. Hermes, the Louvre, Dior, Domaine National du Palais-Royal, Louis Vuitton, Eglise de la Madeleine, Chanel.

Cadillac’s flagship European showroom has found a home...Read more

Some homeowners are looking to electric vehicles to solve their power outage problems this summer.

Automakers increasingly are launching EVs equipped with the ability to support bidirectional charging. The technology can allow energy from the vehicle's battery to be directed to power a plugged-in device, to restore power to a home or to return ...Read more

BELLE ISLE, Michigan — Happy 100th birthday, Chrysler, you’ve given us the gift of many memorable automobiles over the years.

Over a century not much — and yet everything — has changed.

As in 1925 with its Six (and sister Four) models, Chrysler today offers two 2025 vehicles for the U.S. market: the Pacifica and Voyager minivans. ...Read more

DETROIT — The street truck craze is back, and Ford is jumping in with both feet — or at least both its F-150 and Maverick models.

The F-150 Lobo joins the Maverick Lobo in the market with a modified, slammed and tricked truck. Where the Maverick’s signature trick is a dual rear clutch pack for tire-burning, sideways drifting, the F-150 ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed legislation seeking to rescind California’s ambitious auto emission standards, including a landmark rule that would’ve eventually barred sales of new gas-only cars in California by 2035.

In a bill signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, Trump slammed California’s planned zero-...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, with significant fanfare, declared victory Thursday morning over "electric vehicle mandates" favored by his predecessor and regulators in California.

"Previous administration gave left-wing radicals dictatorial powers to control the entire car industry," he said in the White House East Room to a crowd ...Read more

General Motors Co.'s $4 billion reshoring plan announced this week sketches a blueprint for the Detroit automaker's long-term strategy: ramp up production of the hulking gas-powered vehicles Americans love while growing its expanding fleet of electric vehicles.

The investment to shift production of popular models from Mexico to three U.S. ...Read more

The price of used Teslas dropped faster than any other auto brand in the past year, a new report says.

ISeeCars.com — trackers of used-car sales — says the average price paid for a used Tesla was down 8% to $30,708. The next most significant price drops were Chrysler, off 7% to $25,632, Dodge, off 6% to $33,763, Genesis, off 5% to $33,769, ...Read more

General Motors Co. plans to invest $4 billion to move production from Mexico to three plants in the United States, including its Orion Assembly Plant in suburban Detroit, three sources familiar with the situation told The Detroit News.

Full-size SUVs and light-duty pickups are coming to Orion, which was being retooled to build electric trucks ...Read more

General Motors Co. topped crosstown rival Ford Motor Co. to take the No. 2 spot in U.S. electric vehicle sales for the first five months of 2025.

The Detroit automaker announced 62,000 EVs sold this year through May. Chevrolet carried sales among the company's brands, with 37,000 sold in the United States in that same period.

Ford sold 34,132 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan's U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin stood out last month as the only Senate Democrat to join Republicans in voting to kill California’s influential, nation-leading electric vehicle sales rules.

Her break from other Democrats shocked industry groups — even oil and gas lobbyists — that expected a party-line result on the ...Read more

The Forester is one of Subaru's most important models -- to Subaru, in that it is one of Subaru's bestselling models. For this reason it's really important -- to Subaru -- to not fix what isn't broken.

That's always a risk whenever a model that sells well as it is gets redesigned. Of course, not redesigning it also runs the risk of it getting ...Read more