Max Mosley arriving at the High Court in London on Thursday.

As chief, Alan R. Mulally has begun the reinvention of Ford.

Pine waste from a national forest near KL Process Design Group in Wyoming is used to make ethanol, a substitute for gasoline.

Based on sales for the first half of 2008, Toyota appears to be on its way to surpassing G.M. as the largest automaker.

The larger Forester has more room for rum-running.

A puppet movie inspired the designer of the Koenigsegg CCX.

The 2009 Nissan Murano.

BMW Hydrogen 7.

Dong Tran, a student at the College for Creative Studies, designed a Model T concept that has a battery pack charged by solar panels.

A well-attended drag race in Lodz. “We just want to let people go fast and let them do it safely,” the city’s police commissioner said.

Acura and Honda transmission troubles and Chevrolets and Pontiacs with windshield cracks are among the latest technical service bulletins.

Joe Nocera test-driving the Tesla Roadster.

Lenny Schafer at Motor City Mini in Shelby Township, Mich.

A United States senator has recalled that a national speed limit of 55 saved both money and gas.

Click and Clack, the alter-egos of Tom and Ray Magliozzi, from the animated show based on NPR's "Car Talk."

Muhammed Matloob, who manages a gas station at Coney Island Avenue and Lewis Place in Brooklyn, is out of 4s for his regular pumps and 5s for his diesel.

Max Mosley returning from a lunch break to the High Court in London on Monday.

Skyrocketing gas prices have inspectors working overtime this summer to police the city’s more than 1,000 gas stations, marinas and fuel trucks.

Sam Schembari hits a traffic cone during an emergency maneuver.

Sam Casarella performs a turn-in inspection on a 2005 Infiniti G35x in Queens. Fixing damage to the right rear door and quarter panel will cost the lessee about $300.

For the first time, New Jersey’s three major traffic agencies are monitoring traffic under the same roof.

Harry Hurt cleaning his TrailBlazer at the Englewood Auto Spa in Englewood, N.J.

Toyota acknowledged that, like its rival automakers in Detroit, it misjudged the drastic swing in the American market away from larger vehicles.

“It’s better to own 30 to 40 percent of something than 100 percent of nothing,” the Nascar fixture Richard Petty said.

A worker prepared a Citroen C-Cactus prototype car at the 62nd International Motor Show last year in Frankfurt, Germany.

Race over, time to party: A Bullrun car, left, outside Barcelona, a restaurant and nightclub in Scottsdale, Ariz., where rally drivers and crews held a final party on June 27. The race started in Calgary, Alberta, on June 20.

The capabilities of Nissan’s electric cars, to be introduced in 2010, will vary by country but none will have range-extending gasoline engines, the company’s chief executive said.