Last month, we told you that owners of Dodge and Ram trucks were suing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and one of its suppliers, Cummins, for equipping diesel pickups with defeat devices engineered to cheat on emissions tests. Now, a similar lawsuit...

There are certain assumptions people often make about diesels. They’re dirty. They get good fuel economy. They’re loud.The dirty part is no longer true thanks to stringent emissions standards in the United States. You can’t bring a diesel here that’s...

When it comes to regulations governing the auto industry, the Obama administration does not plan to go gentle into that good night.The outgoing administration has pushed through a number of new regulations, some related to fuel efficiency, before President

When people look back at this moment in automotive history, they'll almost certainly see it as the time when the industry began transitioning to electric and autonomous cars. But there's another change afoot, one triggered by years of deception and...

I am slowly but surely being won over by Volvo. I’ve always thought its vehicles were super comfortable, but the design was quirky, the ride and handling have always been a bit eh, and the turning radius was downright awful.Yet..

While VW is moving toward the end of buybacks, payments, and fines for eight years of cheating on diesel emission standards, Fiat Chrysler is still in the thick of its own diesel mess involving Jeep SUVs and Ram trucks.On February...

The auto industry tends to oppose, viscerally and viciously, all attempts to regulate any aspect of its products or business operations for any reason.With President Trump in the White House, the industry has succeeded in getting the comment period reopene...

Highway gas mileage estimates for about one-third of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. will fall by one mile per gallon because the government has changed the way it calculates the numbers on the window sticker.The change, which begins...