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Lexus dealers focus on service to keep customers coming back.

Unless you are one of four racers in the world scheduled to pilot the 'factory prototype' in 2014, you’ll never ride one. The RCV 1000R was unveiled in Valencia on Saturday and has undoubtedly captured the imagination of road and track racers world-wide. The RCV 1000 R is based on the very successful RC 213V prototype and is expected to successfully extend Honda’s point dominance in international MotoGP through 2014.

Halloween is the most dangerous day of the year for parked cars. HDLI's analysis also confirms some other interesting vandalism myths.

The alliance of Renault-Nissan for global platforms was a long, hard road of engineering collaboration and development for a dramatically different product development process, but the payoff is big savings and faster drawing board to showroom times.

In anticipation of Halloween, there is a Mercedes-Benz vehicle, the 2013 C63 AMG Black Series that is so wild, it’s scary-good.

If everyone in America now has health insurance, why do we also have to pay for medical coverage on our car insurance and other insurance policies?

Consumer Reports clarifies that it isn't Japanese brands that are reliable - it is Lexus/Toyota/Acura that are year after year. Let's take a moment to call out the losers bracket.

Self-driving cars are here now and some of the systems they use will soon be saving America billions on insurance and repair costs, and more importantly, lives. But will we make the most of these systems?

The little two-seat Smart has lost a total of about $5 billion over the lifetime of the project. But does this mean the electric vehicle is doomed?

The United Auto Workers union has been losing membership and influence for years and now, in its third attempt to unionize Nissan workers in the southern states, the UAW is desperately trying to make international problems relevant to itself and workers in Tennessee.

As Cummins releases information on their new V8 diesel offering, which will appear in the Nissan Titan Diesel, we talk with one of the truck's planners about their ideas for the big V8 in the 1/2 ton's next-generation.

The Wall Street Journal slammed the new Nissan Versa Note in an editorial review of the car, but the points made were subjective and not very convincing. We'll show you why the WSJ shouldn't be in the automotive review business.

Two Japanese rivals, Nissan and Toyota, are battling it out with continuously variable transmission (CVT) technology, with the focus being primarily on whether to shift or not to shift. That is the question behind the Shift Wars. Now let's consider the answer.

Long on the back burner, diesel engines in passenger vehicles are about to become a big part of the American automotive landscape. There's good reason for that.

Nissan has made some announcements over the past few months that hint at the possibility of a heavy-duty pickup for their lineup, one that might give the Detroit 3 some competition in the commercial and consumer towing sectors.

Being a car guy and a member of the automotive press, I have driven most of Nissan's models for the 2013 model year. Here is a list of my favorites and why. See if it matches yours.

Nissan unveiled the all-new 2014 Rogue and X-Trail at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week. Today, we have a video from Nissan discussing thoughts behind the design by lead designer Keisuke Otsuki. Check it out.

Sometimes the car takes us to when, not where. Today in line at a big chain hardware store I bumped into an older fellow auto enthusiast. The clerk was asking him in an increasingly louder, but polite voice if he had his rewards card. “My what!?” the older gentleman was shouting back.

We have all seen some crazy things on the roadways. Here are three distracted driving stories we have seen in the past week. We challenge you to top them.

Audi may well be the next big player in the car sharing game if the document the DC Auto Geek found online is genuine, referring to a service labeled Audi Access.

You can now design, price and order your dream Mazda3, with all options ready to be configured online. Find out how I would build mine.

Knowing how the technology comes together, we can now consider how it is that Nissan will make it so affordable and get an idea of which vehicle(s) it will appear in first.

When we dig deeper into what Nissan has been doing with cars that drive themselves, we can see not only how they plan to make the technology work in only 7 years, but why it will be "affordable" as promised.

We all use the internet and other sources to learn about cars and crossovers we might want to buy. Here are three things to be aware of as you do your homework.

Truckers throughout the nation can sign up for the World’s Longest Truck Convoy next month, planting the seeds of joy for Special Olympians as law enforcement and trucking companies join together for these unique fundraisers.

The rumor mill has started to hum about Toyota considering changes to Scion.

The 2014 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo is here and it gets a number of high-tech upgrades and standard features for the 2014 model year.

The check engine light and the sensors and components that are behind it have become more and more sophisticated as technology improves. Except for one thing: the light itself is an uninformative relic that hasn't changed much in decades.

Major local broadcast news outlets picked up on the story tonight, when two different studies, reported in the New York Times and The Daily Mail, named BMW drivers as the worst of us when it comes to politeness and courtesy on the road.

The first Fiat 500L Urban Surf Party kicked off the gala introduction of the 500L last Friday in Miami and the fun will continue as the svelte new model continues its celebratory procession to five more US cities.