David Phillips

The CR-V has proved a stalwart for Honda for decades, consistently ranking among the top-selling compact crossovers year after year.

A double-digit decline at Stellantis' biggest brand, Jeep, led the automaker to a 6 percent decline in third-quarter U.S. sales.

The annualized sales pace rebounded in September to 13.7 million but rising interest rates and affordability pose more hurdles as the fourth quarter unfolds.

The factory-bred tuner car — based on the Corolla hatchback — is festooned with a brash body kit and a 300-hp turbocharged engine.

The Mercedes-AMG C 63 sedan will be powered by a four-cylinder hybrid powertrain, a change that marks the end of compact V-8 performance sedans by AMG.

The redesigned Sport is about the same size as the outgoing model and slots on the same MLA-Flex architecture used for the redesigned 2023 Range Rover. The mixed-metal architecture uses the strongest, lightest metals to reduce weight.

Company was founded by Soichiro Honda, who formed the Honda Technical Research Institute in Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1946 to develop and produce internal combustion engines and machine tools.

Kia, Honda, BMW, Nissan, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and Genesis have multiple models eligible across the three categories.

Famed sport car was creation of two men: Louis D. Crusoe, general manager of the Ford division, and George Walker, who later became Ford’s chief stylist.

New McLaren CEO Michael Leiters has told AutoCar that the British brand is open to launching an SUV and is actively exploring what form such a model would take.

Sales rose for the first time in more than a year last month, an indication that market conditions are improving — though not for every brand.

U.S. light-vehicle deliveries rose 4.8 percent last month, Ford said Friday, above the range of forecasts for a 3.6 to 4.6 percent gain. The market was helped by an extra selling day and higher fleet shipments, marking the first monthly gain, year over year, since July 2021. The SAAR tallied 13.2 million.

From 1987 to 2017, some 50,457 lives were saved by frontal airbags, enough people to fill a major league baseball ballpark, NHTSA estimates.

Kia is giving the 2023 Telluride large crossover more off-road muscle along with a big dose of Madison Avenue marketing.