Author: Larry P. Vellequette

Upstart automaker Rivian Automotive is now hitting “the hardest part” of becoming a full-on automaker: actually making autos.

Falling car sales are likely to stabilize at their current level of about 30 percent of the overall market, the Toyota executive said.

The budding global alliance between VW and Ford likely won’t have much of an impact on VW’s U.S. dealers, but there might be at least one: the potential for a new commercial van.

Volkswagen Group is adding a second plant in Tennessee to build electric vehicles for Volkswagen and potentially other brands, with an $800 million investment expected to create 1,000 jobs at the German automaker’s only U.S. assembly operation.

Volkswagen has signed an agreement with U.S. Soccer to be its presenting automotive partner through 2022.

A strong selling rate in December pushed U.S. new-vehicle inventory levels back down to something more closely resembling an industry sweet spot to start the year.

The Lexus LC convertible concept shares most of the properties of the LC coupe that went on sale in mid-2017 but is about a half-inch longer. If, as expected, the convertible makes it into production, it would give Lexus dealers a direct competitor for…

Toyota’s r&d unit is developing something it calls “Toyota Guardian” — a passive safety system that augments human control of a vehicle and can intervene to avoid collisions.

Audi will compete in the attention frenzy surrounding the Super Bowl next month with a commercial featuring its first fully electric vehicle, the e-tron crossover.

Toyota says it will lend a helping hand to individuals and businesses suffering from the effects of the extended federal government shutdown.