The Consumer Reports Cars team will be on site for the 2009 New York International Auto Show at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center when the doors open to the media on Wednesday morning. Through the two media days, the editors and engineers together will provide coverage ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have completed a study on unintentional child injury and its prevention. According to the report, the top five causes of child injury and injury-related death are: 1. Road crashes: They kill 260,000 children a year ...

What would happen if thousands or millions of electric car drivers went to charge up their cars on the hottest summer day of the year? As America moves toward rolling more electric cars out onto the road, that’s the problem many automakers, power companies, and electric car ...

Toyota is launching a new telematics system called Safety Connect to replace Lexus Link, a rebranded version of General Motors’ OnStar service. Rolling out beginning with 2010 Toyota and Lexus models, Safety Connect will offer subscribers a menu of services similar to OnStar’s, including emergency crash notification ...

An article from Bloomberg.com asserts that Chrysler’s bankruptcy may take up to two years to work out, rather than the 60 days projected by the Obama Administration on April 30. The headline grabbed attention, since it raised the specter that Chrysler would be dead in the water ...

What’s with Ford’s 45-degree turn-signal stalk? We’ve liked several of the recent Ford products we’ve tested, especially the new Flex crossover SUV. But several current Fords, including the Fusion and Flex, have this strange appendage. Unlike most turn-signal stalks that stick out from the left side of ...

Here in Motor City, it is clear that Detroit is looking to possibilities offered by a new generation of electric cars. An electric-car infrastructure, including battery manufacture, could revive this city’s industrial fortunes. To that end, a broad array of stake-holders have gathered in Detroit this week ...

As promised, here’s the follow up to our initial dealings with our Jaguar dealer, chronicled in “Saga of the Jaguar XF fix.” As it turns out, the part came in a couple of days later and the dealer promptly called to schedule an appointment. They even offered ...

Suffering from the dearth of new-car buyers to sign up for its service, Sirius XM is expanding with a new application to provide satellite radio over iPhones and iPod Touch devices. Rather than a satellite feed, the service would stream satellite radio content over their built-in Internet ...

The Titan Exhaust Jack makes crawling on the ground to position a jack under a car a thing of the past, according to the company Web site, which also claims that it is the safest, quickest, and most reliable way to jack a car. Instead, it uses ...