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Wait! Is this a fun travel story, or some 2019 Subaru Forester driving impressions? Yes. My Redline Rally journey began with a thud at 0-darkthirty Monday morning when the luxury [...]

Perhaps best known for creating the bizarre, oversized hot rod-driving caricature Rat Fink, famed artist, cartoonist, and car customizer Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth was born in Beverly Hills, California, in [...]

If you were to mate a Jaguar F-Pace with a Ferrari, you might end up with something that looks like the '18 Alfa Romeo Stelvio, the company's first SUV offering [...]

It was a cold November morning in 1957 when William L. 'Bill' Mitchell, heir apparent to General Motors' industry-dominating design team, strode unexpectedly and atypically alone into the automaker's basement [...]

The mission of Chevrolet's Suburban has always seemed obvious to us: bolt a big wagon body on a tough truck chassis, and the result is better at a lot of [...]

Remember the B9 Tribeca, Subaru's first attempt at a three-row SUV? Introduced for '06, it failed for reasons including its aircraft-inspired grille; less-than-competitive performance, fuel economy, and cabin accommodations; and [...]

Despite very different backgrounds, Tim Britt and Elma Avdic share much in common. Growing up on a small farm in southwestern Virginia, Tim showed early mechanical talent. 'From the age [...]

In 1957, GMC's light trucks got a mild restyle and larger, more powerful V-8 engines, and some became the company's first factory 4x4 light trucks. Meanwhile, GM's Detroit Diesel division [...]

GMC is celebrating its 100th anniversary in calendar year 2012, even though GMC's story had many beginnings. While this is the January/February 2013 issue, it comes out at the end [...]

If you're above a certain age, you have vivid memories of the 1973 oil embargo and the resulting fuel shortages. Many people were inconvenienced, frustrated, and angered by empty gas [...]

Some engineers spend endless hours on computer-aided engineering (CAE) tubes, designing every component of every car and truck that hits the road. Others toil equally hard in the manufacturing end [...]

Rudolph Diesel's compression-ignition combustion system has been around much longer than the vehicles it motivates today, yet it hasn't changed much in its basic operation. Each piston comes up in [...]

Once upon a time, when working trucks were rude and crude and completely task-focused, all truck engine engineers had to worry about was making sufficient torque, hauling power, and anvil-tough [...]

The trendy winter-ski/summer-festival town of Telluride, Colorado, population roughly 2,500, looks like a former mining town because it is. Nestled in a canyon surrounded by forested mountains and cliffs and [...]

Growing up in the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights, Michigan, Pete Milosavlevski loved cars and trucks, and he owned a couple of quick Camaros and Mustangs before growing career and [...]

As with so many other things, it all started in California in the 1960s. People got tired of palls of brownish smog hanging over otherwise lovely vistas--and breathing air they [...]

Because he grew up in New Jersey and earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton and an MBA at Harvard, Rick Spina jokingly calls himself an 'East Coast Ivy League snob.' [...]

Anyone remember Honda's boxy Element? Based on the CR-V compact crossover but striving to look like a downsized truck-based SUV, it ran from 2003 to 2011. The Scion xB? Looking [...]

There we were, pushing an all-new 2019 Chevrolet Blazer RS hard through miles of two-lane twists and turns on the high plateau west of San Diego on the way to [...]

Rick Bolt, born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, grew up kayaking, surfing, and sailing. His dad was a salesman, then sales manager, then general manager for a car dealership, [...]

There once was a time when automakers resisted some new safety standards--not so much early basic necessities such as collapsible steering columns, dual brake hydraulic systems, and crash-compliant interiors, but [...]

It's no surprise that Tyler Moffett is working on Chevrolet trucks. He grew up in rural Virginia, where his father owned a forestry service and always used Chevy pickups. 'I [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As you know, GM and Ford offer higher-efficiency models of their full-size pickups, the Silverado/Sierra and Tahoe/Yukon XFEs and the F-150 SFE. All boast EPA ratings of 15 […]

Thanks to youthful ignorance and inexperience, my early towing travails were less than terrific. Following my senior year in high school, I battled a treacherously unstable rental trailer packed full [...]

General Motors is working to develop autonomous vehicles capable of driving themselves. Researchers are working to improve vehicle-to-vehicle communication and the robustness of vehicle sensors to enable autonomous driving, particularly in urban environments.

The road to the test tracks at General Motors' Milford, Michigan, Proving Grounds (MPG) crests a hill with a sumptuous view of what might otherwise be 4000 acres of rich [...]

Everyone obsesses about automotive styling. Just look at auto shows, where the aisles overflow with sexy concepts pointing to the direction car design is heading. But how much attention is […]

We suggested a year ago that car companies tend to embark on radical new design directions when they desperately need to--a marque's product image is down, sales are tanking, blood [...]

Twenty years ago, President Ronald Reagan ran for re-election following a mixed results first term. On one hand, his tax cuts and a major military buildup combined with few government [...]

Most folks envision some wondrous new technology sweeping in and replacing the old faithful internal combustion engine (ICE) virtually overnight. Ain't gonna happen. Those in the know have long viewed [...]

U.S. makers have been criticized of late for pouring the bulk of their development dollars into high-profit trucks and SUVs while essentially ceding the other hall of the market (cars) [...]

Appearance is a powerful thing, specially in show business and the equally volatile and brutally competitive automobile business. Quality, content, features, price, value and image are all extremely important, no [...]

Put yourself in the fashionable shoes of GM's Jack Smith in 1992 or Nissan's Carlos Ghosn in 1999 ... or Ford's Bill Ford, Chrysler's Dieter Zetsche, Mitsubishi's Finbarr O'Neill or [...]

With so many new products and huge market growth in SUVs and full-size trucks in recent years, the compact/mid-size pickup market has seemed largely forgotten. Now comes General Motors ahead [...]

When you talk engine technology these days, it's pretty much all about flow -- flow of fuel and air into the cylinders; flow of mixture and combustion inside, flow of [...]

On a cold winter night, a mother driving with her children loses control of her car, plows off the road and crunches into a rock. Everyone is belted in, so [...]

'Vehicle Development' means different things to different people, even among auto engineers. To some, it's the way-up-front process: defining a vehicle's role and requirements, benchmarking its intended competition, choosing its [...]

Jill Dennis grew up in Clarkston, Michigan, north of Detroit, and earned her mechanical engineering degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She worked as an intern for [...]

Born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, Johan Taws' automotive interest began with his father's MG TF and led him to engineering. He earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering from [...]

Staying smartly abreast of the U.S.-market trend away from cars into crossovers, Swedish automaker Volvo is launching its third CUV in two years. And while this '19 XC40, Volvo's first [...]

Born in Columbus, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, Todd Hoevener grew up on a farm. He earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Rose Holman Institute of Technology in Terre [...]

A half-decade ago, Jeep's all new 14 Cherokee midsize crossover replaced the aging Liberty with a choice of two new engines--a 2.4L 'Tigershark' MultiAir2 16-valve four and a 3.2L variant [...]

As we know, Ford's F-Series pickups have handily outsold Chevrolet's Silverado for decades. Yet Ford's Expedition trails Chevy's Suburban and has never come close in sales to the Tahoe/ Suburban [...]

Growing up in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, Dean Perelli's father was an accountant, and young Dean started in that same direction. But besides being good at math, he [...]

When we interviewed recently retired General Motors Design Vice President Ed Welburn way back in in 2006, he told us that he and his team had established 'icon' vehicles that [...]

Pieter Hogeveen grew up in the Netherlands as a car-loving son of a Citroen dealer. By age 12, he was working at the dealership cleaning garbage cans, later doing oil [...]

As everyone knows, hard-working trucks need stiff, strong springs and shocks to tow and haul heavy loads. But those typically make them ride and handle like old, horse-drawn buckboards when [...]

Growing up in the small town of Ocala, Florida, Jeff Ng was always interested in cars. His car-guy father subscribed to every automotive magazine, and young Jeff read them cover-to-cover. [...]

It was a very different world when Volkswagen's Tiguan was launched a decade ago. Sedans still ruled while small SUVs (aka car-based crossovers or CUVs) were a smaller but growing [...]