AUTO

Google now allows developers to make Android apps for "car-optimized" audio playback and messaging.

The current recall is confined to areas with persistently high humidity. Federal officials demand that it be expanded nationwide.

Infiniti needs a serious flagship to change the public’s perception of the brand and sell more vehicles. Enter the newest member of the Q family: the Q70S.

E.U. consumers bought a million cars last month, led by U.K. demand. Ford sales are up; GM's are down.

Mark Fields told Yahoo Finance that while Tesla is focused on high-end consumers, Ford intends to make affordable electric cars.

Top automakers have outlined consumer privacy principles for connected cars. Here’s what’s lacking, according to critics.

Ralph Nader says the public knows too little about why some Takata air bags explode and spray shrapnel.

An Oct. 30 complaint alleges that a crash of a 2007 Ford Mustang caused a metal fragment to injure the driver when the air bag deployed.

The Takata air-bag recall has affected the owners of millions of vehicles.

Amid sluggish U.S. demand for GM’s luxury car brand, Chinese consumers gravitate to Cadillac’s XTS sedan, SRX crossover.

Takata-made air bags have now been linked to five deaths after Honda disclosed a recent fatality in Malaysia in July.

GM’s ignition switch recall will keep CEO Mary Barra from receiving an award for being first woman to head a car company.

The upcoming Chevrolet muscle car won’t feed South Korea’s growing appetite for imported cars. Because, noise.

Takata called the New York Times report “untrue” because it confuses “multiple events occurring at different times and for different purposes.”

With little else to lose at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, auto plant, the UAW sees hope in the company’s new deal.

Toyota is the largest seller of automobiles in the world, having recently pulled ahead of other players like Volkswagen and General Motors.

Overinflating tires and disconnecting alternators are two of the methods used to cheat Europe’s stringent fuel economy and emissions goals.

Japanese automakers limit the recalls to vehicles “originally sold or ever registered” in hot and humid regions.

The German luxury automaker delivered 16 percent more cars in China in October than same month last year.

Workers were told to delete and destroy results of three-month-long secret tests conducted by Takata on its air bags in the U.S.

The billionaire founder of Tesla talks shop after company’s third quarter results.

Tesla Motors wants more time to test its highly anticipated Model X crossover.

Once imprinted on every car Chrysler made, the iconic logo falls to the rise of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA).

Volkswagen Group says some recent Audi A4, S4 and Allroad cars have air bag controllers that need a software fix.

A new report offers a grim outlook for further reductions of vehicle greenhouse gases as all the easy stuff has been done.

The Asian giant is poised to overtake the Americas in sales of BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce cars.

More than half of the affected vehicles are the 2014 Flex crossovers and F-150 pickup trucks, which may have a passenger-side air bag problem.

The deal comes on top of $395 million the automakers agreed to pay last December to resolve claims from the owners of the vehicles.

Automakers are required to report claims of any death or injury involving their vehicles or parts, but Honda allegedly failed to do so.