Joseph Phillippi

This weekend, a mob crushed a store employee to death in search of good bargains. Even with consumer confidence at a low this holiday season, people spent more money this Black Friday than last. However, most shoppers say they'll be......

General Motors Corp. had its worst U.S. sales month since 1975 last month as reduced access to loans and a weaker economy kept consumers off dealer lots. GM said its sales of cars and light trucks tumbled 45 percent from a year earlier. Ford Motor Co....

If there weren't already enough reasons for people to hold off on buying a new car, rumors about a potential merger between GM and Chrysler have brought up even more doubts for consumers. The possibility of GM acquiring Chrysler raises......

Pontiac is going to add a version of the four-door Chevy Aveo hatchback to its lineup next spring, to be called the G3. Pontiac already markets a G3 Wave in Canada and now will offer it as simply the G3......

By Patrick Olsen and Eamonn Brennan Cars.com In the past 19 years, foreign automakers with no less a profile than Toyota, Honda and Subaru have set up shop in middle America. Why do foreign automakers find Indiana so appealing? How......

Should I lease my next car? That's always been a question for car buyers, but now there???s another one to ask: Will I be able to lease my next car? Domestic automakers??? financial subsidiaries have cut back their leasing programs,......

At least they didn't call it El Camino Junior. After months of excitement that a new car/truck was coming from Pontiac in the form of a Chevy El Camino-type machine ??? and a flurry of speculation that the car/truck might......

On a day of reckoning for the American way of building and driving cars and trucks, General Motors announced a bold attempt Tuesday to wean itself from a dependency on large SUVs and pickups, declaring that gasoline prices won't retreat and the company...