When the Five Hundred didn?t catch on, Ford decided to try an increasingly popular tactic: resurrecting the name of a well-known vehicle, the Taurus.

  Safety experts say parents have to get intimately involved in driver education.

  BMW was the first of the German automakers to establish a performance brand-within-a-brand.

  With the Griso and the Norge, Moto Guzzi offers touring motorcycle enthusiasts a choice between immodest display and tasteful reserve.

  The two-seat convertible TC was a byproduct of a Maserati and the K-Car, offering the worst of both.

  General Motors is hoping the new Chevrolet Malibu will help lure back buyers of family sedans from Japanese rivals.

  There is not a single electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid that can approach the range, interior room and performance of a typical gas-powered sedan for a comparable price.

  Over the years, inventors with their own ideas of how to advance auto safety have built prototypes with many well-meaning (but misguided) safety concepts.

  Car buyers are finding that optional safety features can help owners get a higher price when it is time to sell or trade in the car.

  Window tint laws can be confusing partly because there are federal standards and state standards, and each state has its own.

  The paradoxically beautiful, seamless 30-year survey of his work at the Guggenheim Museum catches many of our inharmonious country?s discontents and refracts them back to us.

  Whether they?re called sunroofs or moonroofs, many of this fall?s new models will stake their claims to novelty based on the innovative use of skylights.

  The clock has started ticking on the phase-out of tax credits for people who buy a Honda hybrid.

  Replacing three discontinued models, the Buick Enclave crossover is a pleasing alternative to a trucklike S.U.V.