new vehicles

It's the cycle of life. As we buy new vehicles, we trade others in; frugal used-car owners buy those, and sell their older vehicles.

And in turn, a tired heap of a vehicle is retired. Trouble is, we're not retiring as many vehicles as we used to.

The average vehicle in the U.S. is now about ten...

General Motors says it will install a new brake safety measure that can prevent unintended acceleration on all its new vehicles worldwide by 2012.

California air regulators are reversing a mandate that would have required sun-reflecting glass to be installed on all new vehicles sold in the state.

The new rules would require the auto industry’s fleet of new vehicles to average 35.5 miles a gallon by 2016.

As of Friday, car buyers in the U.S. had signed deals to trade in 358,851 clunkers for new vehicles, getting rebates of up to $4,500 from the federal government.

Most of the trades have been pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. The top 10 vehicles purchased by those making clunker trades:

As the new chief of product development for General Motors Co., Tom Stephens knows he has no margin for error.

June sales figures are expected to show an upswing in the U.S. for new vehicles, although automakers are not forecasting a sudden end to their 10-month slump.