My Car Blog

MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: I’m quite disappointed with this Infiniti. For all of its sporting pretensions, it felt slightly better than average–at best–to me.

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ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR CHERYL L. BLAHNIK: If you’re a car enthusiast, how can you not like this car? OK, well maybe I’m a little biased because ever since I was in high school, I wanted a BMW 3-series BMW.

EDITOR WES RAYNAL: This is a nice people mover but, man, $46,000 is a lot of loot. I kept wondering whilst I drove it: Since the Flex walks and talks pretty much like a minivan, why don’t I just save the coin and get a Dodge Grand Caravan?

The new Jeep Grand Cherokee’s European debut will be delayed due to strong U.S. demand for the redesigned SUV.

Porsche’s board approved production of the 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid sports car.

Daimler is giving Smart more autonomy and has appointed Annette Winkler to lead the microcar brand. Winkler is the first woman to head a brand at the German automaker.

PSA warned its second-half performance would be hampered by a tougher economic environment, sending its shares lower even though it swung to a first-half profit.

German carmaker Daimler is in talks with Russia’s Kamaz and other companies about possibly making vans in the country, the head of the German carmaker Mercedes-Benz van unit said on Wednesday.

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne demanded guarantees from unions that its Italian plants would be able to operate profitably, saying if no deal is possible the group would have to look elsewhere.