Q: I see in a recent column you advocate holding a car steering wheel at the 3- and 9-o’clock position. As an older adult who took a driving safety class for an insurance discount, they advocate the 4- and 8-o’clock position. They said it gives optimal control and if you’re in an accident and your steering wheel airbag goes off, it’s ...Read more

While the minivan is almost extinct, thanks to the dominance of the SUV, the Honda Odyssey still has a favored spot in Grasso’s Garage. The 2024 Odyssey, assembled in Lincoln, Alabama, boasts tremendous room, comfort and style.

Our 2024 Honda Odyssey Elite tester came wrapped in Lunar Silver Metallic and a gray interior. Since Honda delivered...Read more

The economical Ford Maverick of the 1970s was a wildly popular sedan — equaling Mustang sales in its first year — as rising gas prices spurred shoppers to become more fuel conscious. The $1,900 starting price at launch didn’t hurt either.

Ford dusted off the nameplate a couple of years ago and is having similar success with the new ...Read more

The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz is more than an homage to another era. It’s representative of Volkswagen’s American market conundrum.

The German automaker is celebrating its 75th year in America, an astounding feat of marketing for a company established by Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s and popularized in the United States by an ad agency whose...Read more

Tesla Inc.’s shares surged the most in more than 11 years after the carmaker reported surprisingly strong earnings and forecast as much as 30% growth in vehicle sales next year.

Third-quarter results were buoyed by Tesla turning a corner with the Cybertruck, which generated profit for the first time. Lower material costs, an expanding energy ...Read more

Stellantis NV said Wednesday it plans to launch a demonstration fleet of Dodge Charger Daytona electric muscle cars in 2026 that will be equipped with solid-state batteries — an emerging technology that some view as the future of EVs.

Stellantis is working with its partner Factorial Inc. on the solid-state battery project, a Massachusetts ...Read more

Tim Echols is a bona fide a conservative. The Georgia public service commissioner is an ordained evangelical minister, is solidly against abortion and founded a nonprofit to help teens understand the political process and “defend their Christian faith.”

But there’s one place where he’s a little out of step with his political colleagues...Read more

On the back of strong internal combustion engine sales and pricing in North America, General Motors Co. beat Wall Street earnings expectations on Tuesday with third-quarter net income of $3.056 billion, down just 0.3% year over year, on revenue of $48.757 billion, up 10.5%.

GM's incentive spend in the quarter as a percentage of the average ...Read more

WARREN, Michigan — The United Auto Workers has held rallies, solicited door-to-door canvassers and brought on members to make calls to support the candidates it's endorsed this election — topped by Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for president. But some are less than enthused.

"They won't say it in public that they're voting for Trump this...Read more

Q: My driver seat belt fails to retract all the time and one day may damage the door. I’ve shown my belt retraction to two dealership mechanic foremen with pictures of it hanging outside the car. They say they can only fix it if it happens to them. Is there anyone else to turn to? My door sill paint is wearing thin.

J.S, Chicago

A: It will ...Read more

Tesla's controversial "Full Self-Driving" mode is being investigated by U.S. authorities following a series of crashes, including one accident that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened its latest probe into the leading maker of electric vehicles after receiving reports of four collisions that occurred ...Read more

While the small category of Coupe SUV’s exist in the German markets, BMW delivers the compact coupe SUV consumers have been inquiring about. The BMW X2 xDrive28i offers a $42K base price range, and is both ultra comfortable and roomy.

Clocking in with a zero to 60 mph time at just over 5 seconds, the 312 horsepower compact coupe SUV is ...Read more

SONOMA RACEWAY, California — In basketball, there are multiple position players. Shot-blocking big men. Defensive forwards. Three-point shooters. Playmaking guards. And there are all-around players who can do it all — think the Detroit Pistons' Tayshaun Prince or Grant Hill.

If compact performance sedans (aka, pocket rockets) were ...Read more

At last June’s 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, the fastest race car that General Motors Co. has ever built — the ferocious, winged Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh — hit a top speed of 209 mph.

That’s peanuts.

The new, 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 production car will hit, ahem, 233. Chevy announced the top speed number for the ZR1 this week, the...Read more

FRANKLIN, Tennessee — The Nissan Murano has always been the Nissan of choice for fashionistas, even if its well-dressed demeanor has remained visually unchanged for a decade. That’s an eternity in the world of high fashion. Yet for 2025, it receives a welcome design transformation.

“When we shaped the all-new Murano, we knew we wanted to ...Read more

Leaders of Stellantis NV's U.S. dealer network left meetings this week with the automaker's executives "cautiously optimistic" after a recent leadership overhaul, talk of long-awaited better vehicle incentives, and more clarity on the company's product plans, according to Kevin Farrish, the chairman of the dealer group.

That's a stark shift in ...Read more

Tucked between the onslaught of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris ads flooding Michigan’s airwaves ahead of the U.S. election is a six-figure TV blitz that, on the surface, has nothing to do with politics. Rather, the 30-second spots are aimed at convincing swing-state voters of the merits of buying electric vehicles.

“Forget the political ...Read more

Stellantis NV CEO Carlos Tavares' message to dealers and suppliers struggling over profitability on a bumpy road to increasing adoption of electric vehicles is: "Deal with it."

Tavares' remarks on Monday during a media roundtable at the Paris Motor Show came mostly in the context of the European market, where Stellantis will have 40 all-...Read more

Fisker Inc. will wind down operations under a bankruptcy plan approved Friday that should allow car owners to drive their cars for years — while not paying anything to shareholders who were wiped out investing in the defunct Southern California electric-vehicle maker.

The plan approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Thomas Horan in Delaware ...Read more