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Twenty-five years? Really? That's how long it's been since Chrysler introduced its front-wheel-drive minivan - the Dodge Caravan and the Plymouth Voyager.

If you're just driving around, you'll notice that the engine shuts off during deceleration , and the Ram powered by the 3.7-liter V6 has a fuel-saver indicator light.

The most popular vehicles in America are not cars, they're pickups. Ford F150 and Chevy Silverado have the #1 and 2 slots nailed down.

Officials and workers at an automotive production plant in Tecumseh, Ont., continue to talk on Thursday as a strike deadline approaches.

Once, compact pickups were truly that: Light duty, nimble versions of those hulking behemoths called half-tons. Over the years, however, the big 'uns got more car-like and the little 'uns got, well, bigger.

The second generation of their impressive looking motorcycle features a number of improvements versus the original.

Volvo Trucks North America's D11 and D13 engines have been certified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board as meeting upcoming 2010 diesel emissions standards.

We've driven the SE , R/T and SRT8 variants before. However, this time it's different.

When people think of fast cars, they often think of Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and other ultra-exotic machines.

Why? Because Titan sales are the suck. Nissan has only sold 15,393 copies of its largest truck through the first 10 months of the year.

Mercedes-Benz USA has discontinued selling its Sprinter van through Dodge dealerships and will instead make them available through Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner dealers beginning in January, according to a report in Automotive News .

Ita TMs been a tough year so far for automakers. Many manufacturers are posting large declines in sales compared to last year.

It really wasn't that long ago that the Dodge Dakota was considered a groundbreaker, a real leader in what evolved into the midsize truck category.

FBI detectives say two Chase bank robberies that occurred a few hours apart are unrelated.

In a move counter to the actions of most of the world's automakers, Chrysler Group is shutting down its hybrid-car development team, ENVI.

The 2010 Dodge Ram 1500 is related to the previous generation of Ram, but the forward-tilted grille and the beefy tractor-trailer fenders of the last generation are toned down.

TheCarConnection.com's editors have driven different versions of the latest Dodge Ram and have written this road test summary from firsthand driving impressions.

Chrysler Group LLC will draw aggressively on Fiat small-engine technology to make its smaller vehicles more appealing, but the partnership will not accelerate Chrysler's development of its first mass-market hybrid and plug-in electric passenger cars.

" Chrysler recently announced that "Ram" is to become its own brand. This changes the truck landscape, because Ram trucks will cease to be Dodges, and Chrysler says it will expand this new brand to include commercial vans and perhaps even get back into heavy truck production.

Although BMW initially shunned hybrids in favor of clean diesels and other alternative powertrains, the German automaker is joining the electrically assisted fray next year with not one but two gasoline-electric vehicles: the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7 - our first drive of which you can read here - and the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6.