SHANGHAI — Tesla has halted most of its production at its Shanghai plant due to problems securing parts for its electric vehicles, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters, the latest in a series of difficulties for the factory. The automaker’s sales in...
For more than 20 years, the folks in Stuttgart built sporty roadsters based on the C-Class chassis, finally killing off the SLC during the 2020 model year. The first of those cars to arrive on our shores was the SLK 230, which debuted here as a 1998 model. Its...
With the Jeep Grand Cherokee, the names tell much of the story: Summit Reserve and Trailhawk. The former sounds more like a locally produced Merlot than an off-road machine. It’s the wine country touring conveyance of the Grand Cherokee lineup. That’s...
A VIN or Vehicle Identification Number is like a social security number, serial number or UPC code for a car. It’s given to a car by its manufacturer and no two VINs are the same. The VIN is a unique string of 17 characters that identify a variety of...
New vehicles are regularly passing the Insurance Institue for Highway Safety’s vehicle-to-vehicle front crash prevention with flying colors, with 85 percent of the 2022 vehicles tested managing to hit the Top Safety Pick+ level.Since 2013, IIHS has tested this...
