Imagine a pickup-truck-themed amusement park, with driving simulators, snarling V8 engines, towing and hauling exhibitions, cowboys, trailers that cost more than your first house. That's the truck section of the State Fair of Texas.

The girl with the finance tattoo has burned out. She revealed her plight in a post this month on a Facebook page dedicated to dealership F&I managers. Her cry for help garnered a lot of empathy, not surprising given that some studies show F&I managers have low tenure and high turnover.

The list of exhibitors for this week's Paris auto show is the latest indication that the industry is changing fast. Vacuum maker Dyson will be at the event amid reports that the company is developing an electric car.

Design is about to get way more complex and difficult as new technologies transform the automobile.

In today's buy-sell market, which franchises would you buy? Adviser Erin Kerrigan's choices might surprise you.

The ongoing contract talks between the Detroit 3 and Canada's Unifor union expose a real dilemma.

Car companies are smart to give closer scrutiny to their auto show spending. Some are skipping the expensive show exhibits -- as Ford is this week in Paris -- and in some cases they're relying on piggyback events nearby.

For the third consecutive presidential election cycle, the automotive industry and its business practices have been thrust into the middle of a political fight.

Unifor President Jerry Dias' top goal in negotiations with General Motors was to buck a trend: the shift of auto investments away from Canada toward Mexico. On that, it appears he will be successful. But how?

Mercedes will jump back into the battery-powered delivery van niche in 2018, a move that shows pressure is rising to reduce harmful emissions in Europe's congested cities.

With multiple bills seeking to limit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's auto lending guidance scattered across legislators' desks, something's got to give.

Had GM nurtured the seeds it planted with the EV1 and continued to improve its technology, the company probably would have not been embarrassed two years later by the Toyota Prius.

I am not in the business of weighing sins, but I have noticed -- over the last year as the VW diesel emissions scandal has unfolded -- that all automotive sins are not created equal. Now I think I know why.

Dealers need to look long and hard at every dollar they spend. Here are some places to begin doing so.

Is the automobile a social problem? In author and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Humes's view, the car is worse than that - it's a health and economic problem as well.

Nissan's ProPilot can steer around curves and slow down for traffic, but it requires some driver input to keep it going.

Automotive executives facing indictments and jail? Remarkable. It is the first time I can recall executives in America who could conceivably go to jail for actions they took while performing their jobs.

When Matthias Mueller became CEO of a tainted Volkswagen AG, he spoke of plans to gradually introduce a new culture of openness to the company. But he added that he didn't "believe in revolutions, and Volkswagen doesn't need one anyway." Wrong.

On Thursday, Ford CEO Mark Fields grappled live on CNN with Donald Trump's latest round of attacks on Ford's investment plans for Mexico. I wish he answered some of the questions differently.

Ford's plan to move small-car production from the U.S. to Mexico has become a yearlong debacle, right in the midst of the most divisive presidential election in history.

When you look past the app upgrades, vehicle modifications and press releases filled with terms seemingly picked out of a Ph.D. dissertation, you start to realize these models of getting around truly are game-changing, but not because of the computer code behind them.

Lease penetration in August dropped from the year-earlier level, Manheim’s preliminary numbers show. And the company says it could be the start of a pattern. Edmunds sees leasing differently. Its data show lease penetration was up in August, and the company predicts leasing will continue to rise. Where does that leave auto finance?

If recent reports are to be believed, the long-rumored midengine Chevrolet Corvette could be here as early as 2019. Naturally, Chevy is trying to keep a tight lid on the development, but new spy photos provide the clearest look yet at the upcoming car.

How did $1,000 under become the new invoice?

Elon Musk takes pride in his Tesla Motors' salary of $37,584, minimum wage in California. But stock options incentivize Musk to aim high -- really high.

Keith Crain's call for better driver training is laudable if misguided.