Long-term vehicle quality has improved by 5 percent across automotive brands in 2008, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ 2008 Vehicle Dependability Study. More than 60 percent of the 38 nameplates included in the study improved in 2008, compared with 2007. In particular, the compact car and midsized...

Sales of the consummate gasoline/electric Toyota Prius hybrid reached a milestone mark of more than one million worldwide, Toyota announced today. Since the Prius first went on sale in Japan in 1997, then in Europe and North America in 2000, total cumulative sales through April 2008 hit 1,028,000 units...