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The Chevrolet Silverado's all-new 3.0L Duramax inline-six turbo-diesel engine offers segment-leading torque and horsepower, in addition to a focus on fuel economy and capability.

Automakers tout electric future while building more diesels

January 17, 2020 at 2:42 p.m.

As a commitment to a post-carbon future of "zero-emissions" electric vehicles, General Motors Co. is converting is its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant to the manufacture of electric trucks. Auto analysts forecast...

An aerial view of the closed General Motors assembly factory in Janesville, Wisconsin. (Dreamstime/TNS)

Auto factory towns prepare for what’s next after closures

December 30, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

DETROIT — There is life for sites of old auto assembly plants after they're sold — but rarely in the capacity for which they were built. Lordstown Assembly, the 53-year-old...

The racy Honda Civic Si just wants to have fun

December 3, 2019 at 1:32 p.m.

They say the transportation future is autonomous. That's hard to believe as long as there are cars like the 2020 Honda Civic Si. At just $25,000 the athletic, tech-tastic Si...

People wait in line to purchase recreational marijuana at Exclusive Brands in Ann Arbor on Dec. 1, 2019.

People, many from out of state, line up in Michigan for first day of legal recreational marijuana sales

December 2, 2019 at 11:46 a.m.

Michigan's first legal recreational sales began around 10 a.m. Sunday, 13 months after voters approved a ballot measure allowing it. Consumers from across Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania lined up...

FILE - In this April 23, 2014 file photo, a man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago. Teen vapers prefer Juul and mint is the #1 flavor among many of them, suggesting a shift after the company's fruit and dessert flavors were removed from retail stores, new U.S. research suggests. The results are in a pair of studies published Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, including a report from the Food and Drug Administration and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating that the U.S. teen vaping epidemic shows no signs of slowing down. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Lungs of teen who had transplant like ‘nothing that I have ever seen, ‘ doctor says

November 13, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

The surgeon who transplanted two lungs into a teenage boy who was going to die from vaping used the word "evil." Another doctor at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on...

Motor City stakes claim to be capital of autos’ future

November 8, 2019 at 1:49 p.m.

The Motor City's historic strength in manufacturing is enabling it to become the center for the future of the automotive industry. Just a few years ago, conventional thinking assumed Silicon...

Toyota Corolla Hatchback is wallflower no more

October 25, 2019 at 3:17 p.m.

Waiting at the Pittsburgh airport arrivals curb to pick up my son for a race weekend at Pittsburgh International Raceway, I was approached by one of the fiercest cops I...

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh looks on in the fourth quarter against Iowa on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Fumble-itis makes Michigan sick, but Jim Harbaugh thinks he has a cure

October 14, 2019 at 2:04 p.m.

So now it gets interesting. Not that 16th-ranked Michigan hasn't already played its way to a most interesting 5-1 record so far. As the Wolverines enter the second half of...

Sasha Obama, with former first lady Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama, in 2014.

Sasha Obama will begin college classes at the University of Michigan next week

August 29, 2019 at 9:58 a.m.

When the Obama daughters left Chicago for the White House, their parents were — in between stump speeches and Cabinet appointments — focused on getting them to make their beds...

NHTSA probes corrosion in older GM, Ford vans

August 23, 2021 at 2:39 a.m.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 90,000 older Ford and General Motors vans over rust issues. It is looking at corrosion that could allow fuel leaks in 2003...

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