2009 Honda Fit Prices Start $600 Higher Than 2008
The all-new 2009 Honda Fit goes on sale in the next few weeks, and we have a full price breakdown below. The base Fit with a five-speed manual will start at $14,550, excluding a $670 destination charge. The outgoing 2008…

GMC, Pontiac, Buick Employee Pricing Discounts
Next up in our series of GM employee pricing sale posts are GMC, Pontiac and Buick. As usual, the biggest savings are available on trucks and SUVs, including deals like nearly $10,000 discounts on Sierra models, or the nearly $5,000…

Today’s News From the Cars.com Family
When, oh, when will the Honda Civic come with Bluetooth as a factory option? Ask.cars.com has some good news for today’s curious reader. Then PickupTrucks.com reports that the Pontiac G8 sport truck will come with a direct injection V-6 engine,…

Cars.com Reviews 2009 Lincoln MKS
Lincoln hasn’t exactly overwhelmed car shoppers lately, with products that have failed to match competitors from Lexus and Infiniti, but Cars.com reviewer David Thomas sees promise in the all-new 2009 Lincoln MKS. Distinctive and a good value compared to the…

Ch-Ch-Changes: 2009 Audi A6, A6 Avant
A redesigned 2009 Audi A6 will go on sale in January 2009 with updates to its front and rear styling as well as a supercharged V-6 that?s new to the Audi lineup. Coming down the road you?ll notice the new…

2010 Ford Mustang Site Launches
If you can?t wait the 96 days and 12 hours or so until the official unveiling of the 2010 Ford Mustang, check out Ford?s new site dedicated to the countdown. I guess this doesn?t really help shorten the wait; actually…

Today’s News From the Cars.com Family
Ask.cars.com explains why it?s better to negotiate the overall price of a car rather than the monthly payments to a reader who thinks she might have been ripped off on her payments. Then PickupTrucks.com takes a look at an old…

Movers and Losers: July’s Top Sedans
This time we?ll admit it: The numbers are misleading. That?s mainly because of the start of the 2009 model year, meeting the outgoing 2008s. The quick-sellers are mostly 2009s, and for some ? like the Ford Fusion, Subaru Legacy, Pontiac…

CarsCast Weekly: 8/15/08
In case you were wondering what all the fuss was about, there’s a presidential election coming up. Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain have been going toe-to-toe over Lindsay and Stephen’s favorite subject: cars. The candidates have offered different visions…

Dodge Announces 2009 Ram Pricing
Pricing for the all-new 2009 Dodge Ram was released today. The full range of prices for a pickup truck can be a little unwieldy, but fortunately our friends at PickupTrucks.com have the full breakdown, from the $22,170 work-grade regular cab…

Recall Alert: 200,000 BMW 3 Series, 5 Series, X3
Today, NHTSA announced that BMW is recalling 200,000 cars and SUVs due to a faulty airbag that may not deploy during a crash. The models affected include 2006 3 Series, 2004-06 5 Series and 2004-06 X3 SUVs. The problem isn?t…

2009 Audi A4 Photo Gallery
This past weekend, Kelsey Mays and Joe Bruzek of Ask.cars.com spent some time in the all-new 2009 Audi A4. While the redesigned A4 may be significantly updated, the design sure looks similar to the outgoing model. Still, check out the…

GM Adds 1 MPG to 2009 Trucks and SUVS
For the 2009 model year, the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups and the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon SUVs will add a new model called the XFE that adds an extra mpg to both city and highway mileage. The…

How to Get the U.S. Ready for EV Batteries
As lithium-ion batteries increasingly look like the future of cars, getting use in hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles, the question is, how do we make them here? The problem is that most of the materials for these batteries come…

Hydrogen Tour Highlights Obstacles
For the record, I am not in the pocket of Big Oil. This does not deter my inherent skepticism, though, of hydrogen as a viable, widespread alternative automobile fuel. Ironically, this skepticism only increased with the launch of the Hydrogen…