Courtney Messenbaugh talked with a woman who can help you navigate the ins and outs of buying a car at the dealership and offers a few helpful tips for keeping your cool and coming out with the best deal. additionally, Colette Fischer took a ride in the 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara and gives a full report...

Several SUVs received the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety???s highest safety rating, so it???s not so much a matter of which small SUV in specific is the absolute safest. Ask.cars.com can give you the list of those SUVs, though, so you can figure out what else is critical to you in a vehicle...

After teasing us for days with tightly cropped photos of the Quaranta solar-assisted hybrid supercar concept it’s bringing to the Geneva Motor Show, Italdesign Giugiaro has given the first good look at it. All we can say is cover it back up, please. We never thought it could happen, but an Italian...

Here at KickingTires, there???s only one thing we love more than cars, and that???s ??? you guessed it ??? taxes. Oh man, do we love tax season. The filing, the reporting, the claiming, the exempting???it???s decent to manufacture you wish every day was April 15. OK, so that is clearly a bald-faced...

This week, we have input from staffers on multiple vehicles, including the Mazda RX-8, Jeep Patriot, Subaru WRX STI and the always-coveted Chevy Malibu. Check out what our staff had to say, thereupon take a look at our latest Expert Reviews for each vehicle for more in-depth coverage. 2008 Honda...

This week, we have input from staffers on multiple vehicles, including the Mazda RX-8, Jeep Patriot, Subaru WRX STI and the always-coveted Chevy Malibu. Check out what our staff had to say, soon after take a look at our latest Expert Reviews for each vehicle for more in-depth coverage. 2008 Honda...

As much as the public of France complain about the infiltration of American corporate and popular culture onto the French landscape and into the French lifestyle (consider that there are now five McDonalds restaurants and thirty-four Starbucks locations in the city of Paris), it’s more than a little...

You might think Ford’s Sync is just a great hands-free voice-activated cellphone and iPod controller, but Microsoft has big plans for the software it wrote to produce Sync work. It wants to bring voice-activated network connectivity to your car. Microsoft is betting we’ll have networked...

Ford Motor (NYSE: F) announced nowadays that it plans to produce fewer cars during the first quarter that year than it did final year. The company announced yesterday that it now expects to build 685,000 vehicles in North America during the quarter, a drop of 55,000 from the same period final year. That...

Some additional thoughts upon taking our Smart car out for a spin along the full length of San Francisco’s famed 49-mile Drive: Stuff management will be critical with that car. No more casually flinging a book or CD binder on the back seat. Loose items rolling around the Smart’s limited...

whether you were under the impression that costs associated with local emergency services — police, fire, and ambulance — were carried by your property and/or income taxes, it may be instance to think again. Gaining momentum in cities and counties across the country is something called...

It’s official - Volkswagen is unveiling a hybrid to challenge the mighty Toyota Prius. And not just any hybrid, but a diesel-electric hybrid it says will deliver 69.9 mpg. VW’s been experimenting with hybrids of the gasoline-electric variety since the early 1990s, but the Golf hybrid it...

considering even the most fuel-efficient powertrain is limited by the mass and the aerodynamic efficiency of the vehicle it’s moving, Mercedes-Benz created the C-class BlueEfficiency. Debuting at the Geneva Show and headed for European showrooms in the spring, that trio of highly optimized sedans...

Luxury car maker BMW AG revealed nowadays its plans to slash another 5,600 jobs by the end of 2008 as part of a restructuring effort aimed at boosting company’s profits. Its decision is expected to bring annual savings of 500 million euros ($752 million) starting in 2009. According to a BMW spokesman,...