compact cars

Thinking about buying a used car? You might want to do it sooner rather than later. Prices are on track to rise an average of 1.8% in 2012, and used compact cars will go up even more -- nearly 3%. What's going on? And what does it mean for car shoppers?

With all of the turmoil over oil prices and gas prices creeping up daily, along with the Japan earthquake leading to a shortage of fuel-efficient cars, you'd think the world was ending and that Americans would soon be walking everywhere because they can't afford their gas-guzzling cars. Gas prices...

The thrifty new small car replaces the underwhelming Chevy Cobalt, a model that had a hard time competing with the likes of Toyota's Corolla and Ford's Focus, new versions of which are due in coming months. A manual transmission model will have a 40-mpg highway rating.

Ford Motor Co. (F) is on a roll. The lone U.S. car company not to have taken a government bailout, Ford said Wednesday it foresees a return to profitability within two years, as it unveiled an inexpensive compact car to be made in India. (Autoblog has a gallery of the new car here.) The Figo,...

In the 1960s, the Volkswagen Beetle was looked upon with scorn by Detroit as a fly on the hood of the real car industry. Few anticipated the change that it would bring, as a generation of boomers jumped at the chance to buy a new car for under $1,600, far less than Ford's cheapest offering, the...