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.

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

  G.M.?s U.S. sales were up 4 percent in September, while Honda?s increased 13.8 percent. But Toyota, Ford and Chrysler all sold fewer vehicles.

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

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

  In the old Rambler wagon, the family had to provide their own entertainment.

  Now that the Big Three automakers are shrinking their labor costs they should be able to regain market share. Right? Well, not exactly.

  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.

  Forty years later ?Back Seat Dodge ?38,?Edward Kienholz?s most recognizable work, has now been installed in a setting that matches what the artist?s former wife says he intended all along.

  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.