Last race: Kyle Busch won the battle of attrition, overcoming a pit-road penalty and several scrapes with the wall to win at Darlington Raceway. The third Cup victory of the season for NASCAR’s least popular driver hardly thrilled the crowd, which booed him lustily in prerace introductions and hadn’t softened by the time he took [...]

For one thing, the Vue is quite a looker. That’s actually saying quite a bit considering pretty much every other manufacturer has had a kick at this can and most of these faux-by-fauxes look remarkably alike.The Vue, on the other hand, stands out — and not just for the Sea Mist (where do they get [...]

“My fiance is an owner-operator and he’s been crying a lot about the price of fuel,” Dawson said. “He’s been slowing way down.”Truckers and industry officials say slowing a tractor-trailer rig from 75 mph to 65 mph increases fuel mileage by more than a mile a gallon, a significant bump for machines that get less [...]

Apparently Ed Peper, general manager of Chevrolet, agrees. “Yes, I think there’s room for a compact and very fuel-efficient pickup. I think there’s an opportunity there,” Peper told the site. Intriguing, and a little surprising. Lots of manufacturers used to market small, fuel-efficient pickup trucks, but have virtually abandoned the [...]

Diesel not an option? According to a Kelley Blue Book marketing-research study, the “vast majority of in-market new-vehicle shoppers do not see diesel as a likely mainstream fuel source in the future.” The survey suggests that only 6 percent of shoppers think diesel is most likely to succeed in [...]