(October 28, 2025) SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Female car buyers are making up a larger customer base for some of the top domestic auto brands, but none approach the gains that Porsche has made with women this year, according to an analysis by Edmunds.com.

The analysis found that of all automakers, Porsche has made the largest relative market share gains among women nationwide over the past year.

(October 28, 2025) IRVINE, Calif. — Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com reports the vehicles with the best Total Cost of Ownership among cross-shopped models for the Chevrolet Cruze and Honda CR-V, two of the most researched models on kbb.com. 

Both top-selling models, the Cruze and CR-V, offer a diverse list of cross-shopped vehicles on kbb.com. 

(October 27, 2025) In recent years Ford has been a model of American reliability, competing well against Japanese makes that have dominated for decades. But three of its new models are blemishing that record, according to Consumer Reports.

The new Explorer, Fiesta, and Focus all had below-average reliability in their first year. As a result, Ford’s overall reliability rank among 28 major car makes slipped from the 10th to the 20th spot this year — the biggest drop for any major nameplate in Consumer Reports 2011 Annual Auto Survey.

(October 26, 2025) DETROIT — New-car dealers who have been hit hard by the economic recession need less financial pressure—not more—especially when faced with tough decisions to remodel their dealerships, said Stephen W. Wade, chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association.

"Each year dealers collectively invest billions of dollars in facility upgrades, much of it mandated by the auto manufacturers," Wade said in remarks last week to the Automotive Press Association in Detroit.