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A major redo is in the works for Infiniti’s G lineup. An Infiniti insider in Japan recently spilled the beans to Motor Trend about the brand’s future plans. Motor Trend reports that the new G will go on sale in summer 2014 and will share the platform underpinning the Mercedes-Benz C-Class — part of Infiniti’s [...]

We recently sat down with Robert Davis, Mazda’s senior vice president of U.S. Operations. Subjects discussed included the proliferation of the automaker’s Skyactiv technology suite, the future of V-6 and rotary engines, future crossover strategy in the wake of the CX-7 leaving our market, and a little about the next MX-5 Miata. Here are the [...]

Ford has about 8,000 orders for the new 2013 Escape SUV that will hit showrooms in late May with a base price of $23,295, about $200 less than the outgoing model. But the base S trim level is expected to account for only about 10% of sales of the crossover that has been completely redesigned [...]

Hyundai has a problem that a lot of other brands might envy — not enough cars to sell. Now it’s doing something about it. The South Korean automaker is trying to squeeze an additional 100,000 cars for its dealers to sell this year, says John Krafcik, the company’s North American CEO. As it stands, the [...]

IBM today announced that it has teamed with American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on a new pilot project that will allow communication between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. This project will demonstrate and test an electric vehicle’s ability to receive and respond to charge instructions based [...]

At the New York Auto Show, Toyota (TM) focused on its new Avalon as well as its new Venza crossover and its new Lexus sedan. But some of the biggest news for Toyota came the day before the show’s press preview, when March U.S. sales figures showed the Prius hybrid as the third best-selling car [...]

There’s still marketing magic in the iconic Land Rover brand – despite its having been mired to the axles in a two-decade-long sales bog during which it changed ownership three times – and this is being revealed by a turnaround led by its latest offering, the hot-selling Range Rover Evoque. Land Rover sales globally grew [...]

HERNDON, Va. /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — March sales total 36,588 units representing six months in a row with at least 30 percent sales gains Passat, the 2012 Motor Trend Car of the Year, sold 10,032 units, its best month ever. Jetta Sedan achieved sales of 12,947 units. High-mileage, clean diesel TDI models account for 23.1 [...]