Historically, vehicles have been equipped with engines designed to handle all possible driving needs. While it may be that your daily driving might consist of heading to school or work, stopping by the market, and handling a variety of other errands, there’s that occasional need to drive up a steep grade or get out of [...]

It’s no secret that hybrid electric vehicles get pretty incredible fuel economy. In fact, the top three vehicles in EPA fuel economy ratings these days are hybrids, topped by the Honda Insight with its amazing 68 miles-per-gallon highway figure. How do these vehicles accomplish such a seemingly impossible feat? Really, the answer is as simple [...]

It’s no secret that hybrid electric vehicles get pretty incredible fuel economy. In fact, the top three vehicles in EPA fuel economy ratings these days are hybrids, topped by the Honda Insight with its amazing 68 miles-per-gallon highway figure. How do these vehicles accomplish such a seemingly impossible feat? Really, the answer is as simple [...]

Toyota Motor Corp., the biggest Japanese automaker in the United States, accounted for almost half of the industry’s “most reliable” vehicles and again dominated an annual survey by Consumer Reports magazine.

When Toyota Motor Corp.’s first San Antonio-made truck rolls off the line this month, local officials hope it’s also the rollout of a new character for this South Texas tourism hub _ a relocation target for major manufacturing businesses. Perhaps, they say, San Antonio won’t be the also-ran alongside Houston, Dallas and Austin anymore.