Speaking of advanced engines, Buick had, for a time, one of the most high-tech mass-produced big-block V8s ever made in the early 1970s. In those days, competition between GM subsidiaries was standard ...

The sales representative pointed to the Toyota model in the showroom and said, "This car now starts at 87,800, which is over 60,000 cheaper than last year." I was taken aback; when did Toyota become ...

Remember when the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and what used to be Chrysler all offered light-duty pickup trucks with available turbo diesel oomph? Only the largest of the Detroit-based ...

A wave of aluminum auto body scrap is set to enter salvage systems over the next decade. This scrap is often too impure to safely be reused in new critical automotive parts, limiting its value. That's ...

Technically a neighborhood of Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades stood apart, an extra ten minutes’ drive from civilization, on the last stretch of Sunset Boulevard before it plunges to the sea. In a ...

The warehouse was a beacon of flames. 'It's Christy's again,' shouted one local over the whine of the fire engine ...