A revolutionary design, often derided as a flying fishbowl, the Pacer featured 5,615 square inches of glass — some 37 percent of its surface area.

U.S. light-vehicle demand fell at Ford, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Subaru and Kia in February, matching forecasts for a weaker month, with fewer selling days and severe weather dampening sales, even as the industry slowly recovers from the pandemic. Volvo and Genesis volume rose.

Officially billed as a multipurpose vehicle in a market shifting away from traditional minivans, the 2022 Carnival will be a replacement for the Sedona.

The Department of Transportation on Feb. 15, 1968, announces a new motor vehicle safety standard requiring protective head restraints on all passenger cars manufactured after Dec. 31, 1968.

Toyota Motor, Hyundai, Subaru, Kia and Mazda racked up higher U.S. sales in January behind strong crossover and SUV demand, signaling light trucks continue to fuel the market's recovery amid the pandemic. Ford and Honda volume slid on sharply lower car deliveries.

He took a scrappy home business that tracked customer satisfaction with new-vehicle quality and turned it into a giant global market research firm that today monitors everything from consumers' experience with new-car sales and service to hotels.

J.D. Power was launched in the family kitchen with automotive customer surveys that measured and ranked new-vehicle quality.

GM racked up its best fourth-quarter U.S. retail sales since 2007 while light trucks fueled Toyota, Subaru, Kia, VW brand and Mazda gains. Ford Motor, FCA, Honda and Nissan Group all posted lower volume in the final three months of 2020, amid signs consumer demand spiked across the industry in the closing days of December. The SAAR topped 16 million for the third month since bottoming out at 8.74 million in April.

COVID-19 disrupted but didn't cancel some of 2020's biggest product debuts and tech advances, but we did detect one major shift — changes and updates seem to be coming faster inside, under the hood, even in the drivetrain, than outside.

The Detroit Institute of Arts, amid a reexamination of the car, surveys some of the Motor City's key production cars, concept vehicles and styling trends dating back to the 1950s.