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A new breed of prototype automobile can drive without the help of unreliable humans, and major car companies are paying attention.

The largest carmaker attributed its unexpected profit to government measures around the world designed to boost sales of environmentally friendly cars and other vehicles.

When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepared for a dangerous high-speed chase.

Jackknifed big-rigs and spun-out vehicles littered freeways in the Los Angeles area as hubcap-deep pools caused by overwhelmed storm drains kept travel lanes impassable. The National Weather Service canceled its flash flood advisory for ...

General Motors Co. said Friday it set a sales record in China in September and total sales for the first nine months of the year rose 55 percent to nearly 1.3 million vehicles.

General Motors Co. said Wednesday it would shut down its Saturn division after an agreement to sell it to Penske Automotive Group Inc. fell apart.

Ford uses the Texas State Fair to serve up its own brand of vegetable-powered pickup trucks.

Industry officials may be quick to talk up the newest in electric transportation. They’ll also admit it’s not going to be easy abandoning the time-tested internal combustion engine.

Chrysler Group LLC is planning to build the Fiat 500 small car at a plant in Mexico, according to a report published Monday.

In the city, most drivers will rely on the rechargeable battery and should get at least 230 miles per gallon, G.M. said.