In recent years, it’s become abundantly clear Southern California's war on smog hinges on the of adoption electric vehicles. And, for the first time in a generation, we may be headed in the wrong direction.

Southern California’s persistently sunny climate and mountains work together to form and trap smog over the region. And that the ...Read more

TOKYO — President Donald Trump arrived here this week for a wide-ranging state visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi — the same week the Japan Mobility Show opened to media. With its tariff policy, the Trump administration has been determined to open foreign markets like Japan to U.S. automakers.

It's not easy.

In exchange for a 15%...Read more

Carmakers around the world are planning to scale back production after an export freeze on a Chinese semiconductor company based in Netherlands threatened to disrupt the industry’s supply chains.

Honda Motor Co. said it has cut or suspended production this week at some plants in North America as a countermeasure to the chip shortage, which ...Read more

OAKLAND COUNTY, Michigan — My former Detroit News colleague Scott Burgess made it a practice of getting into a Porsche 911 each year as a reminder of the industry’s sports car performance standard.

The same might be said of the Mazda CX-30 Turbo SUV.

The Japanese automaker’s entry-level hellion is the SUV segment’s handling benchmark. ...Read more

While pickup trucks are still widely used for contractors and service employees, in the last decade the truck market has evolved in a lifestyle and recreation direction.

In Grasso’s Garage, we consider the 2025 GMC Canyon AT4 AEV 4WD. Consumers looking for off-road excellence, comfort and style while not breaking the bank will appreciate its ...Read more

You don’t buy a Maserati because it makes sense. You buy one because it doesn’t. Because the world has become too safe, too soft, and Bluetooth-paired, and somewhere deep inside your soul, you still crave something with noise, nerve and the kind of raw mechanical passion not ruled by algorithms.

For most of the last 50 years, Maserati has ...Read more

Stellantis NV said Thursday its third-quarter revenue rose 13% to $43.2 billion (37.2 billion euro) as the company saw "early signs of commercial progress" after a recent string of poor sales and financial results.

But the maker of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles also warned of new one-off costs as it recalibrates its business strategy ...Read more

Workers at a Volkswagen AG plant in Tennessee voted to authorize a strike after more than a year of negotiations has failed to yield an agreement, the United Auto Workers said Wednesday evening.

In April 2024, workers at the Chattanooga Assembly Plant voted 73% in favor of joining the Detroit-based union — the first foreign-owned plant in the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Amid a teardown of auto industry environmental rules, Trump administration allies quietly won another victory when a federal court voided an obscure but, at one point, hugely consequential Biden-era rule on electric vehicles.

A panel of judges for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis nullified a March 2024 change to "...Read more

About 1,200 workers at General Motors Co.'s Detroit-area all-electric plant will be laid off as the company downsizes to a single shift in response to the slowing U.S. electric vehicle market.

The company also will cut 550 jobs at its joint-venture Ultium Cells battery cell plant in Ohio, with another 850 slated for temporary layoff. The Ultium...Read more

Ford Motor Co. and DTE Energy Co. have launched a pilot program with 15 Ford employees in southeast Michigan that compensates these F-150 Lightning owners for transferring their electric vehicle battery power to their home to reduce demand on the electrical grid at high-use times.

The pilot has begun and will run through 2026. It's part of the ...Read more

General Motors Co. on Monday laid off about 325 workers and confirmed plans to close its Georgia IT Innovation Center by the end of the year.

Most of the job cuts at the Roswell, Georgia, site are information technology workers, a trend across industries as artificial intelligence becomes more advanced.

“We are redefining our site strategy, ...Read more

Electric vehicle advocates are bracing for the Trump administration’s anticipated reversal of the coupling more than a decade ago of vehicle fuel economy standards with EPA goals to reduce tailpipe emissions.

The Transportation Department’s upcoming rewrite of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards — paired with the 2025 ...Read more

General Motors Co. cut hundreds of jobs on Friday, just days after raising its profit guidance for the year in a move that sent the shares soaring.

The automaker laid off more than 200 salaried staff, mostly at its Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, north of Detroit. The message was delivered around 7 a.m., when the company called some of the ...Read more

STRATFORD, Virginia — If I had pulled up to the Lee family home in 1776 in a Tesla Cybertruck, they would have thought I was a time traveler from the future.

Which is not much different than the reaction I received when I pulled up in 2025.

I took a Cybertruck on a weekend trip with Mrs. Payne this fall to help prepare Stratford Hall, the ...Read more

Californians purchased a record number of zero-emission and plug-in hybrid vehicles in the third quarter of 2025, seizing their final opportunity to claim federal tax incentives before they were eliminated under President Trump’s sweeping budget cuts.

California residents bought more than 124,700 zero-emission vehicles or plug-in hybrids from...Read more

The 2026 Kia Sportage Hybrid is proof that the Koreans have done what the Japanese did 30 years ago: looked at the established order, taken notes, and then made better cars at lower prices with more style, more cleverness, and more empathy for the human beings who actually drive them. The 2026 Kia Sportage Hybrid isn’t just an appliance; it’...Read more

As Honda Powersports enters Grasso’s Garage for the first time, we recognize why consumers have been addicted to the brand for years. Enter the 2025 Honda Pioneer 1000-5 Trail Special Edition, a rec/utility fit for any occasion, any chore and tons of off-road fun.

Powered by a torquey 999cc liquid-cooled, parallel-twin, four-stroke engine, ...Read more