(August 26, 2012) DETROIT — Chevrolet Corvette will be the featured marque next August at the 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where historic race cars annually come to the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca track to relive the sights, sounds and smells of racing days gone by.

(August 25, 2012) DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford’s new Explorer Sport will stand in a class of one when it goes on sale next month with an EPA-certified 22 mpg highway rating and 365 horsepower, the only seven-passenger, high-performance SUV on the market to do so.

(August 24, 2012) Nissan has joined forces with the world's best-selling fashion magazine, ELLE, to develop a special version of its popular city car, the Micra. The Nissan Micra ELLE, which goes on sale in the UK on Sept. 1 starting at £12,000 ($18,96), combines stylish looks and lots of equipment.

(August 24, 2012) DETROIT — General Motors will invest $220 million for tooling and equipment to build the next-generation Chevrolet Cruze in two northeast Ohio plants retaining more than 5,000 jobs at facilities in Lordstown and Parma.

The Lordstown Complex, with support from the metal center in the Cleveland suburb of Parma, has built more than 500,000 of Chevrolet’s top-selling compact passenger sedan since production began in September 2010. More than 1.6 million Cruzes have been built globally since 2009.