(February 27, 2014) YONKERS, N.Y. — Luxury brands rule the roost this year as Acura and Audi moved up a few spots to join Lexus with the top three highest scores in Consumer Reports’ annual car brand report cards.

A perennial top scorer, Lexus earned the highest marks (79) for the second straight year. Consumer Reports’ analysis finds the bulk of its models are usually quiet, comfortable, and fuel-efficient. Lexus was the only brand to achieve an excellent average overall reliability score.

(February 26, 2014) SANTA MONICA, Calif. — TrueCar today released its February 2014 sales and incentives forecast predicting the February SAAR will hit 15.4 million, up 1 percent year-over-year.

By Christopher A. Sawyer
The Virtual Driver

(February 24, 2014) The final score was 712 – 626, and the shouting has yet to subside. Despite the most liberal definition of “neutrality” ever used by the management of a global corporation, workers at VW’s Chattanooga, Tenn., assembly plant voted against joining the United Auto Workers union and foiled, for now, efforts at establishing a works council at the plant.

(February 18, 2014) ARLINGTON, Va.— Today, leaders of the American Trucking Associations, while supporting the goal of improved fuel efficiency of large trucks, pressed the Obama Administration to proceed cautiously with the setting of new standards.

"We stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the President and his administration in 2011 when the historic first fuel efficiency standards were set for heavy-duty vehicles," said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. "As we begin this new round of standards, ATA hopes the administration will set forth a path that is both based on the best science and research available and economically achievable."