There’s an irony in the Hummer nameplate being brought back as a battery-electric sub-brand of the GMC family. Given its extreme bulk, there’s a sense of GM executives paying penance for the brand’s previous gas-guzzling ways.

And despite what GMC has said since Hummer returned from purgatory, this is NOT GMC’s “first ever” EV. Not ...Read more

Electric vehicles provide energy storage, on wheels. But until now, this has been an untapped resource, unable to help shore up the power grid and back up homes and businesses during outages.

Last weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law that will help harness that energy. SB 59, proposed by State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, ...Read more

NASHVILLE — Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.

Honda’s first hybrid IndyCar won big at the season finale here at the Big Michigan Music City Grand Prix Sept. 15 as Colton Herta took the checkered flag first — and Alex Palou clinched the overall driver's championship. And for customers who want a hybrid Honda of their own for the street, 2025 ...Read more

As Subaru has been absent from Grasso’s Garage, we have witnessed a slew of convertibles which are ready to enjoy fun in the sun. But today, we see a different kind of fun, and that is without the sun. I give you the 2024 Subaru BRZ-tS, Subaru’s rear wheel drive, two-door coupe.

Powered with a 2.4-liter horizontal-opposed DOHC engine with a...Read more

General Motors Co. will build its coming all-electric three-row Cadillac SUV, the Vistiq, at its Spring Hill, Tennessee, plant where the smaller Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV is already produced, the automaker said this week.

The luxury brand has two new EVs coming soon with production of the 2025 Optiq SUV starting later this fall at the Ramos ...Read more

In his first public comments since Stellantis NV confirmed it had started searching for his successor, Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares signaled he’s open to leaving the automaker just over a year from now.

Leaving when his contract expires in early 2026 is “one option,” Tavares told reporters Thursday at a press conference in ...Read more

Stellantis NV's U.S. sales fell 20% in the third quarter compared to the same period last year with all of its major brands — Jeep, Ram, Chrysler and Dodge — dropping.

The transatlantic automaker sold 305,294 vehicles in the United States in July, August and September, compared to 380,563 in the same period a year ago.

The decline comes as...Read more

Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. sales grew less than 1% year-over-year in the third quarter, and General Motors Co. overtook it in electric vehicle sales.

Ford sold 504,039 vehicles in the July-through-September quarter, up 0.7%, compared to last year's 500,504 vehicles. Hybrid sales grew by 38%, and EVs were up 12%, while gas- and diesel-fueled vehicles...Read more

Former President Donald Trump has been promising Michigan voters this fall that he can revive the state's auto industry and return it to "greatness," but the Republican nominee failed to fully deliver on similar guarantees, made eight years ago, before his first term in the White House.

On Friday night, Trump told a crowd at Macomb Community ...Read more

TROY, Michigan — The automotive industry is flipping on its head a long tradition of car racing video games by bringing the gaming experience into the vehicles.

Collect virtual coins with an augmented-reality car projected onto the live camera feed from the vehicle, play Uno through the infotainment screen or connect a Bluetooth controller ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. has slashed the cost of its BlueCruise hands-free highway driving subscription and added a new one-time purchase option.

The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker has been increasing the availability of BlueCruise in its lineup — technology it says can reduce driver fatigue and offer the company recurring revenue and contact with ...Read more

Stellantis NV warned that nearly 200,000 plug-in hybrid Jeep SUVs worldwide may be at risk of catching fire.

The carmaker is recalling roughly 154,000 late-model Wrangler 4xe and Grand Cherokee 4xe SUVs in the U.S. over the flaw, the automaker said in a statement on Monday. An estimated 14,038 vehicles in Canada are also affected, plus 673 in ...Read more

General Motors Co.’s robotaxi company will undergo tougher oversight and pay a fine to settle claims by U.S. auto safety regulators that it failed to properly disclose information about a crash involving one of its cars that struck and dragged a pedestrian last fall.

GM’s Cruise LLC unit must pay a $1.5 million civil penalty, submit regular...Read more

Stellantis NV on Monday lowered its annual financial guidance for the year and said it was accelerating actions to reduce U.S. inventories as sales struggle.

The transatlantic automaker is forecasting an adjusted operating income margin of 5.5% to 7% for the year, down from the expected double-digit projection. Roughly two-thirds of the reduced...Read more

In an effort to boost sales, Ford Motor Co. will cover the cost of a home charging station and its installation starting Tuesday through the end of the year for customers who buy or lease a new electric vehicle.

EV sales aren't growing as quickly as the industry had expected. Affordability, availability of charging infrastructure, battery ...Read more

Q: Back in the ‘70s, Oldsmobile had a number of models with swivel bucket seats. Now that I am 80, where are these seats? It would be a lot easier for old folks to get in and out of their car.

M.B., Syracuse, New York

A: The simplest and cheapest solution is a swivel seat cushion. You can find many on Amazon for under $50. Full replacement ...Read more

As it has been awhile since we reviewed an Acura vehicle in Grasso’s Garage, we made room in our busy schedule to test-drive the Acura MDX Type-S. It was more than worth the wait.

First, power at the driver’s command is considerable, as Acura sticks with what works best: the 355 horsepower 3.0-liter direct injection turbo 6-cylinder engine....Read more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — If I lived here in America’s Music City, I would buy a manual 2025 Honda Civic Si, move south of the city and take the twisted, vacant Natchez Trace Highway into work every day. SPORT mode. BWAAAUUWWWWW! Shift to 4th. BWAAAUUWWWWW! Downshift to 3rd with rev match. BWAP! Back on the throttle. BWAAAUUWWWWW! Glorious.

If...Read more

The battery-electric 2025 Polestar 3 is the Swedish brand’s first SUV, one that tips its stylistic hat to the Volvo XC40, albeit one that’s been squashed and lengthened. Lower and sportier in style than its Scandinavian cousin, it’s a long overdue stablemate to the somewhat stodgier Polestar 2, and one meant to take on such formidable ...Read more