November is living up to its reputation as one of the worst months of the year for car sales, prompting automakers to launch holiday promotions in an effort

Think of four words you might use to describe a Hyundai Sonata.

A rigorous new roof-strength standard means a lot fewer new models earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's “Top Safety Pick” award for 2010. This year, just 27 individual models were named Top Safety Pick by the IIHS, compared with last year's record 94 models that earned the award. Most of the reason so many new vehicles couldn't grab the brass ring comes down to a newly instituted roof-safety test presumed to indicate superior protection in rollovers, which are involved in about one-third of all fatal accidents.

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Engineers at General Motors Co. working on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle yesterday told the media development remains on track and that the start of production for GM's game-changing, fuel-saving 4-seater now is less than a year away. When GM unveiled the Volt at the Detroit auto show in January, 2007, the promise of production seemed tantalizingly far-flung – and improbable, given the myriad technical problems GM admitted had to be solved. But chief engineer Andrew Farah says the accelerated development program is on schedule and GM will begin producing the Volt in less than a year's time. And despite the recent drama involving the proposed sale of GM's Adam Opel AG European

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The Mazda2 is coming to North America, making

More than 65,000 job seekers submitted applications to work at Volkswagen's new plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., the local newspaper there reported. The plant intends to hire 2,000 workers total; the first will be come onboard in the spring with hiring extending

Michael Carpenter, a board member turned new chief of GMAC Financial Services, vowed to

Edmunds.com, parent of AutoObserver , late last week submitted a recommendation to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation to make fuel-economy information on new-vehicle window stickers more useful by shifting to a cost-of-energy figure rather than today's emphasized miles-per-gallon numbers.

The Nissan-Renault alliance is making a major push to accelerate the adoption of fully electric vehicles despite persistent skepticism the public – and the world's vehicle infrastructure -