In the last few weeks, the Big Three American automakers have all rattled the retail auto market by announcing big changes in their leasing programs. Chrysler led things off by telling customers that the lending arm (majority owned by Cerberus Capital Management LP) would stop offering leases for new cars and trucks on August 1st. Ford and General Motors followed within a few days, saying that they were dropping the lease deals for SUVs and light trucks.

No, you're not looking at a concept car. You're looking at the first Foose Coupe to be delivered to a paying customer.

It's official: Volkswagen will open a factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to build vehicles for U.S. consumption.

Audi didn't hide much about its new 2009 Q5 during its unveiling at the 2008 Beijing show, but the automaker has now revealed a few additional details about the North American-spec SUV that we previously didn't know.

We'd think an enthusiast event would be the last place to bring a top-secret prototype, but a 2010 Ford Mustang took to the Road America course this past weekend as a pace car at the Kohler International Challenge races.

They weren't concept cars or show cars. They were dream cars. That was what Harley Earl, General Motors' styling chief, called these blindingly bright visions of the future. That vision and its reflection, realized at GM's Motorama, still fires the imagination. In essence, the Motorama was an all-GM car show with an emphasis on "show." The signature setting was New York's Waldorf-Astoria, although it traveled the country with stops in Boston, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The Motorama tour of 1956, with five days of shows in each of five cities over the course of four months, was the work of hundreds of stage hands, actors, singers, musicians, technicians, and producers, the matériel packed onto 125 tractor trailers. The cost to mount the '56 edition of Motorama was estimated at $10 million ($79 million in today's dollars), which is no small investment, even for the biggest, most successful company in the world.

There is no Villeroy & Boch tableware, and only a few ladies can be seen wearing appropriate, elegant dresses.