2012 sales pick up where 2011 left off.

As expected, January 2012 auto sales rose, maintaining a trend that unfolded in 2010 and picked up in 2011. Volkswagen reported a sales increase of 47.9 percent, recording …

Toyota’s luxury brand should return to pre-earthquake levels

Luxury Sales
Lexus sales fell in 2011 so much so that BMW and Mercedes-Benz finished 1-2 in the U.S. luxury market. Lexus has been the leading luxury make …

More hot cars from Detroit!

Its takes two days of press events to show all the good stuff that is on display at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Yesterday, we featured 7 …

New 3-Series fighter screams: game on!

The General Motors Company is aiming to make Cadillac a world-class luxury marque, by offering to consumers alternatives to cars produced by its European and Asian rivals. Currently, its best …

24-hour reporting delays ends the anticipation.
Lexus is no longer the luxury car champion in the United States, having lost that position in 2011 as a result of production and distribution problems following last March’s earthquake …

12.78 million sales & 10.3 percent increase.
Updated: 11:17 a.m.; January 5, 2012
December 2011 auto sales figures are in, enabling us to gauge the month and year just ended. As expected, the news is generally good …

Super fast SUV makes SoCal debut.

German automaker Mercedes-Benz will roll out just one new product at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show this month and that vehicle is the performance version of its midsize M-Class …

Elegant Equus receives a larger, more powerful engine.

The largest and most expensive Hyundai is the Equus, an elegant sedan that competes against the Mercedes-Benz S550, the Lexus LS 460 and the BMW 760Li. This model, …

Cadillac puts the ATS on the ring.

We’re less than one year away from seeing Cadillac’s next model take to the street, a compact sedan that will slot below the CTS and compete against the BMW …

Word coming forth from the 2011 Frankfurt International Motor Show that Infiniti will build a compact vehicle based on a Mercedes-Benz small car platform should send up cheers throughout the industry. Maybe not so much …

At the 2011 Frankfurt International Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz has taken advantage of a home country venue to release a bevy of new products including the usual concepts and several takes on next generation models. Parent …

Korean models set the pace again.
Automakers doing business in the United States have tabulated sales for July 2011, with reporting data through August 1 included.
U.S. auto sales for July 2011 returned mostly flat although Hyundai, …

Dr. Zetsche announces investment and plant expansion.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – German automaker Daimler AG has announced a $2 billion investment in its Tuscaloosa, Alabama plant, a facility that was opened in 1997 and will be retooled …

Reordering of the luxury market takes shape.

Lexus’ long-term reign as luxury brand leader is over, at least for 2011, but perhaps for the long haul. Dependent upon its Japanese manufacturing base to supply vehicles which …

Mercedes is about to pull the veil off of an important subcompact car, its A-Class concept, which will be unveiled at a pair of auto shows in Shanghai and New York this month.

As has been …

Daimler’s decision to fold Smart USA’s operation into Mercedes-Benz means that the Penske Automotive Group will soon no longer be responsible for U.S. marketing and distribution. Just as Mercedes has done with Sprinter – running …

By Harrison Card

Cadillac continues its attempt to become more European-like with its upcoming compact sedan, the ATS. As with Lincoln, Cadillac gave up naming its cars a few years ago and instead decided to use …

Daimler’s Smart line has been a bust at least that is so in the United States where the brand hasn’t caught on after three years of availability. Introduced in January 2008 and marketed by the …

The Penske Automotive Group has been the exclusive distributor of Daimler AG’s Smart brand in the United States, ever since the first Fortwo went on sale in January 2008. Initially, the diminutive two-seater sold well, …

January 29, 2011, is an important date in the chronicles of the automobile history. Exactly 125 years earlier, German inventor Karl Benz was awarded a patent for Motorcar No. 1 (pictured), planting the seed …

Daimler AG isn’t waiting for the Paris Motor Show to get underway on October 2nd to tease us with some photographs of its next generation 2012 CLS-Class four-door coupe. That model will be officially introduced …

The sport/utility market has fallen on hard times lately as consumers are fleeing this once popular segment in favor of smaller, more fuel efficient cars. That didn’t stopped Mercedes-Benz from moving forward with their plan …

Perhaps the most important show for Daimler AG, the owner of Mercedes-Benz, is the one held in its own backyard — the Frankfurt Motor Show. A biennial event, the 2009 show comes to an end …