(February 12, 2014) CHICAGO — Outstanding onboard connectivity carried the day for the winners of this year’s Connected World magazine Connected Car of the Year award winners.

The winning vehicles, chosen by the editorial team at Connected World magazine, will appear in the Feb/Mar issue of the magazine. The awards were presented by Peggy Smedley, editorial director of Connected World magazine.

(February 11, 2014) CENTREVILLE, Va. — Carfax today released new data suggesting online shoppers may have unknowingly purchased millions of used cars with unfixed recalls in 2013. The company's annual research on the issue shows more than 3.5 million cars were listed for sale online with an open safety recall.

By Christopher A. Sawyer
The Virtual Driver

(February 10, 2014) I like the Ford Fusion. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about its stablemate, the Lincoln MKZ. Mechanically these two cars are nearly the same, so it should be easy to transfer my affection from the Fusion to the MKZ, and call it a day. But I can’t.

(February 5, 2014) IRVINE, Calif. — The 2014 model-year vehicles and brands — in both non-luxury and luxury categories — with the lowest projected ownership costs were announced today by Kelley Blue Book kbb.com. These awards are based on Kelley Blue Book's 5-Year Cost to Own data for new cars for the initial five-year ownership period.

(February 4, 2014) CHICAGO — Cars.com today released a list of the top 10 most iconic cars of the past 25 years. The site's experts compiled the list based on cars that set trends, have unusually expressive styling, performance under the hood and other factors that make these some of the most memorable cars to date.

(February 3, 2014) SANTA MONICA, Calif. — TrueCar estimated today that the average transaction price (ATP) for light vehicles in the U.S. was $30,934 in January, up $804 (2.7 percent) from January 2013 and down $422 (-1.3 percent) from December 2013.

Average transaction prices continue to rise and are at the highest levels in the last five years.

(February 1, 2014) CHICAGO — Cars.com conducted a study to evaluate the car buying preferences of the cities home to the teams playing in this weekend's Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. The study reviewed the new car purchasing preferences of more than 300,000 car buyers over the past year in Seattle and Denver, as well as an analysis of most searched models by the shoppers in both cities at Cars.com in the fourth quarter of 2013.

(January 31, 2014) DELHI, India — The first-ever independent crash tests of some of India's popular and important small cars have shown a high-risk of life threatening injuries in road crashes. All the cars selected by Global NCAP for testing in a frontal impact at 64km/h (40 mph) received zero-star adult protection ratings.

(January 30, 2014) SANTA MONICA, Calif. — TrueCar today released its January 2014 sales and incentives forecast that predicts seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 15.6 million vehicles.