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Used car dealers are resorting to drastic measures to fill the demand U.S. consumers have for used cars these days.

The gift from Margie Petersen and the Margie and Robert E. Petersen Foundation includes an unrestricted financial gift, a matching challenge, the building the museum has occupied since 1994, and a collection of cars assembled by Robert Petersen....

One model gets more than 4 times the average number of citations; another gets less than one-fourth. And the ages and genders of the drivers might surprise you.

The auto industry uses 0% interest to sell cars. So why not the housing industry? Here's the likely scenario if interest rates keep moving lower.

It's turning into another rough week for Toyota. Reporter Alisa Roth talks with Kai Ryssdal about how much the carmaker's problems will cost and whether people will still be willing to buy its cars.

These cars are disappearing from assembly lines, but that doesn't mean it would be a mistake to buy one. Just shop carefully.

The automaker has done some shrewd maneuvering in the last few years, but it has far to go to prove it's more than a truck company that also makes cars.

Demand for aluminum to build airplanes and cars is down and supplies are up. But the price of aluminum has been climbing -- from a low of 60 cents a pound a few months ago to about 90 cents today.

Joel Rose reports.

Cash for Clunkers was supposed to reduce the number of polluting cars on the road. But all those discarded cars are now clogging up junkyards.

And disposing of them will be no small task. Sam Eaton reports.

CerMet Lab thinks it has a magic answer for better fuel efficiency in cars and better job creation and Michigan.