Sharon Carty

It looks as if electric carmaker Fisker is about to join the ranks of companies like like Studebaker, Packard, and Duesenberg: Great automotive companies that failed.

Tesla Motors announced Tuesday that it's unveiling a lease-to-own program that could bring the cost of ownership, for some buyers, to less than $500 a month.

Tesla Motors announced Tuesday that it's unveiling a lease-to-own program that could, for some buyers, bring the cost of ownership to less than $500 a month.

Teen driving safety is one of those problems that is easy to ignore: So often the tragedies are spread out throughout small towns around the country. One lost life here, two lost there. We don't often piece all those crashes together and realize what's happening to our children

Most car shoppers are focused on things like fuel economy, reliability and those sorts of things. But Jackie Langenecker has a higher calling: Finding a family car that makes it easy to have fun.

Otto Mayo is a guy who is passionate about cars. When he owns a car, he wants to be in love with it.

Using a small pool of data collected in the first half of 2012, the Governor's Highway Safety Association said deaths of teen drivers jumped sharply, up 19 percent compared with a year earlier. The numbers reverse a decade-long trend that showed a decrease in teen driving deaths.

Lee Hutchins is a loyal man. He's been driving the same 1995 325i BMW for nearly 17 years, putting nearly 250,000 miles on the car. He loves it, but thinks its time to retire these wheels and find a new set that he can drive and drive and drive.

It's easy to laugh at the news that came out this week: A local lawmaker in County Kerry, Ireland, is pushing for a new permit that would let some drivers get behind the wheel (of their car or their tractor) even if they're a little tipsy.

Mercedes-Benz on Sunday brought out its baby Benz, a car aimed at bringing in a more youthful generation of buyers before anyone catches on and realizes Mercedes' current buyers are -- dare we say it -- getting older.

Corky Rice, a used car wholesaler from Glendale, Calif., says he's bought and sold about 25,000 to 30,000 cars in his life. But he just sold what's probably the biggest unicorn of his career: A practically brand-new 1989 Corvette.

Sudden acceleration problems continue to haunt Toyota: The automaker has agreed to pay a record fine for failing to report a safety defect that caused cars to accelerate when the driver wasn't intending to go faster.

Consumer Reports is calling out Ford, saying the new C-Max and Fusion hybrids don't get anywhere near the 47 miles per gallon the automaker claims.

Consumer Reports is calling out Ford, saying the new C-Max and Fusion hybrids don't get anywhere near the 47 mpg the automaker claims.

The auto industry wins the silver lining award from the affects of Hurricane Sandy: November car sales jumped 15 percent on strong demand from people replacing cars destroyed by the storm, Americans feeling more confident in the economy, and an easier access to credit.

Guess what? Your average electric vehicle buyer is not your typical American. Electric car buyers are predominantly white, male, well-educated and homeowners, according to a survey of 970 EV owners by the Electric Vehicle Information Exchange (EVIX.) Their median household income was $108,624, compared with the U.S. average of $51,914. In other words, except for political leanings, they look just like the members of the U.S. Congress and White House challengers last year who regular

Responding to critics who said the car was insubstantial and had a cheap interior, Honda announced today it's releasing a refreshed Honda Civic at the Los Angeles auto show later this month. The car will go on sale the same day it's shown at the auto show.

Bringing the Japanese fascination with technology to its cars, Honda plans on introducing software in the next 10 years that could keep its cars from ever crashing into anything ever. Or at least, that's the goal.

Ford is unveiling three commercials this week that attempt to show how the new Fusion stands out from the crowd. The first one, called Disappearing, can be watched below.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into a Georgia Nissan dealer who sold at least one new car that had been recalled, without fixing the problem.

There are some things popular around the rest of the globe that Americans just don't "get" – namely soccer, Bollywood movies, David Hasselhoff, and the Volkswagen Golf.