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Sara Gray buys gas once a month.

Her 40-mile commute to work is entirely electric in her Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid. Gray, director of arts at California’s Monterey Museum of Art, only relies on the car’s combustion engine for longer weekend road trips up the coast or to see her parents in Reno, Nevada.

“This was kind of a happy medium”...Read more

Despite soaring gasoline prices and the re-introduction of a statewide rebate program for zero-emission vehicles, sales of EVs and plug-in hybrids in California stalled in the third quarter of this year.

All-electrics accounted for a 17.3% share of new cars and pickup trucks sold in the California from July through September, down from 17.9% in...Read more

Ford Motor Co. has issued a recall on thousands of 2025-27 F-150 pickup trucks after identifying improper securements for front-row seats to the vehicle.

There are 2,276 vehicles included in the recall, which is less than 1% of models, according to an advisory posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website. The improper ...Read more

While I was recently in Los Angeles, I had the chance to visit The Petersen Museum’s “100 Years of Mercedes” exhibit.

Sitting amongst Clark Gable’s 1956 300 Sc, Walt Disney’s 1964 230 SL roadster and Ferdinand Marcos’ armored 1984 500 SEL was what’s believed to be the only 1987 300 AMG “Hammer” wagon. Its 375 horsepower 6.0-...Read more

HELL, Michigan — Destroying Hell’s twisted roads then cruising topless through Ann Arbor to pick up lunch. Blitzing the back straight at M1 Concourse at 130 mph. Schlepping to the airport on adaptive cruise control in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Just a typical 24 hours in the King of Supercars, the 2026 Porsche 911 Turbo S.

But it’s not ...Read more

Ford makes the long haul and enters Grasso’s Garage with an aesthetically pleasing and proven F-150 Lobo edition pickup truck that is ready for all consumers.

With a 600-mile range on a full tank, our F-150 Lobo tester offered an upgraded 5.0-liter Coyote V-8 engine packed with 400 horsepower and 410 pound-feet of torque. Paired with a 10-...Read more

Damage from a week's worth of high surf and El Niño-related storms brought many warnings from officials. Beaches were closed. Homes were evacuated and red-tagged.

But one alert was targeted to a specific audience: owners of electric vehicles that were submerged by the flooding.

"If you notice smoke, hissing, popping or unusual heat, move ...Read more

Thank goodness for BMW, which still builds cars for people who enjoy driving rather than merely enduring it. The 2026 BMW M2 CS is a compact, two-door sports coupe for those who adore BMW’s gloriously primitive idea of self-propelled progress: more power, less weight, and the lunatic notion that driving ought to be fun.

Making a car fast is ...Read more

A Ford supplier in Sterling Heights, Michigan, filed a notice with the state that it's permanently laying off more than 150 people because some of the business is going to India, according to a source familiar with the automaker's plans.

Kern J.G. Enterprise Inc. filed the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, citing "unforeseeable ...Read more

Legacy carmakers won’t likely be able to match Chinese rivals on price and may already have missed first-mover advantage on electric and software-developed vehicles, according to a report by Mobility Global Inc.’s automotive analysts.

The paper, which the research firm released Tuesday, projects established automakers will retain the upper...Read more

Los Angeles is getting a new all-electric ride hailing service as Vietnam’s Green SM launches in the city.

Its cyan-colored vehicles will compete with Ubers, Lyfts and autonomous taxis to shuttle customers across busy streets and freeways. The vehicles arrive amid a surge in transportation options as several robotaxi companies ramp up ...Read more

Toyota has been ... hesitant about going all in on electric vehicles. This has saved Toyota a lot of money. Ford and General Motors and Volkswagen and other brands that were all in on EVs have lost a lot of money -- more than $35 billion, in Ford's case.

So the bZ (formerly the bZ4X) is a kind of cautious toe in the water for Toyota. ...Read more

Federal safety regulators are investigating reports of continued problems with grille parts flying off a top-selling General Motors Co. pickup truck.

At issue are some GMC Sierras from model years 2022-24. GM last year recalled grille deflectors on Sierra 1500 models with chrome grilles following complaints of the part falling off while driving...Read more

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain claimed reelection early Friday evening with his United UAW slate of candidates poised to sweep the International Executive Board positions in the Detroit-based union's second-ever direct election of leaders, according to preliminary results.

Fain led against five other challengers, including Vice ...Read more

GAYDON, England — Jaguar has spent years talking about reinvention. Now it has produced something considerably more useful than another corporate promise: a 1,015-horsepower electric grand tourer with the proportions of a proper Jaguar. The Jaguar Type 01 is low, long and unapologetically expensive. It has a 24-inch screen, 23-inch wheels, ...Read more

Federal safety officials say the tire pressure monitoring systems on more than 16,000 Ram trucks could have been damaged during assembly, prompting a recall.

The recall covers model year 2026 Ram trucks produced by Stellantis NV, which began notifying dealers of the issue this week.

Sensors notify drivers when tire pressure drops significantly...Read more

Nowadays, the large array of SUVs available to consumers can be overwhelming. Manufacturers have models in every fleet vying for a slice of this burgeoning market.

In Grasso’s Garage this week we consider an all-electric powerhouse that is here to prove a point: that the 2026 Porsche Macan Turbo Electric does it better than the rest. Porsche ...Read more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — The second-generation, 2027 Volkswagen Atlas is big. How big? My 6-foot-5-inch frame and 6-foot-7-inch Atlas Product Manager Jim Burch both fit easily in the third row.

Together.

We make things big in America. Big people, big attractions, big cars. For years, Volkswagen sent too-small, too-expensive German-made vehicles...Read more

More than 265,000 Ram cargo vans have been recalled over a defect with the vehicles' steering system.

At issue are the electric power steering systems in ProMaster vans from model years 2022-26. Federal regulators say water can seep into the steering systems, damaging the vehicles' electrical wiring and potentially causing permanent loss of ...Read more