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# automobile


## automobile


* ![Volkswagen CEO Martin Wintekorn](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbdf70027ea8cc9f6/698864bd2dce01ae639e5a41/volkswagon-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 22, 2015  
## [Volkswagen CEO's Future Remains Unclear](https://time.com/4044455/volkswagen-ceo-scandal-emissions/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Fortune
* ![Volkswagen logo displayed in Hanover, Germany on Feb. 20, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt27c9c14cfbc71dc7/698864405f570f0c2db1d6d2/volkswagen-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 18, 2015  
## [Volkswagen Recalls Almost Half a Million Cars](https://time.com/4040591/volkswagen-emission-recall/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Fortune
* ![Elon Musk at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 7, 2015.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ed0a4ba07700d9d/69886048cd1bbabe166fcd4f/elon-musk-tesla.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 20, 2015  
## [Elon Musk Could Be the Next Henry Ford](https://time.com/4005107/elon-musk-tesla-henry-ford/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by TIME Staff
* ![open-road](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d20e41d58e2be55/69885f6735ba6f24fac0ead4/open-road.jpg?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 15, 2015  
## [How Americans Fell in Love With Taking Road Trips](https://time.com/3998949/road-trip-history/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by Zócalo Public Square
* ![Colored marks indicate where a crash test dummy's face struck an airbag in a Nissan Tiida sedan following a collision test at the Nissan Advanced Crash Laboratory in Yokosuka City, Japan Wednesday, August 31, 2005.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteae2f9cada278c16/698784aacd68489baa09a445/nissan-airbags-recall-malfunction.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 23, 2015  
## [Officials Probe Nissan Air Bags](https://time.com/3753689/nissan-airbag-recalls/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Kevin McSpadden  
* ![car-covered-blue](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt983cee91f501aff1/6987820b428a9e4ca5cc76eb/200524541-001-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 5, 2015  
## [These Are the American Cities Where No One Wants to Drive](https://time.com/3731662/american-cities-no-drive/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Thomas C. Frohlich
* ![Facebook from a wirelessly connected smartphone is seen on an autonomous dashboard.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt91be5b221ad82a14/69877e3ef887dc3a1ce89ff4/461102694-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 9, 2015  
## [Report Finds Security Risk in High-Tech Cars](https://time.com/3700989/high-tech-cars-security-risk/)  
[BUSINESS](/section/business/)  
by Fortune
* ![Washington, D.C., writer John Hoke, with the 35-mph electric car he built himself for less than $1,000, 1966.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt277646f4708dc6a1/69884cbb35ba6f9896c0cef2/141023-electric-car-tech-1966-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 22, 2014  
## [Electric Cars: Just Around the Corner for a Long, Long Time](https://time.com/3881300/electric-cars-just-around-the-corner-for-a-long-long-time/)  
by Ben Cosgrove
* ![A 1930 Phantom II Mulliner Continental Tourer at the Montreal meet of the Rolls-Royce Owners Club in August 1958.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8ba2d06d6aa2d4d/6988466a524fc0b929df1908/007969701.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 1, 2014  
## [Auto Focus: Walker Evans on Rolls-Royce](https://time.com/3881049/auto-focus-walker-evans-on-rolls-royce/)  
by Ben Cosgrove
* ![Zhao Xiadi next to his Audi A5 with National Stadium in the background. Beijing, China, Chaoyang District. February 15, 2014](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc37ecb933d1fa09b/6986852ccd804d8494cc9b34/china-car-culture.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 13, 2014  
## [China's Road Show](https://time.com/22845/chinas-road-show/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Michael Schuman  
* ![A New York City doorman flags down a taxi for one of the residents of his building, 1944.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc43460f3f4f5d2f9/69884a4d35ba6f631ec0ca80/01_05583455.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 17, 2013  
## [All Hail New York Taxis: Gotham Cabs and Cabbies of the 1940s](https://time.com/3877443/all-hail-new-york-taxis-gotham-cabs-and-cabbies-of-the-1940s/)  
by Ben Cosgrove
* ![Cumulus clouds billow above a stretch of Route 66 in Arizona, 1947.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteca83c6967888498/69884a3a428a9ef8cfccca70/route66_irc2.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 10, 2013  
## [The Road Goes Ever On: Route 66 and the American Dream](https://time.com/36709/route-66-and-the-american-dream-the-road-goes-ever-on/)  
by Ben Cosgrove
* ![Scene at Volkswagen's main plant, Wolfsburg, Germany, July 1951.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c75387a4f908d67/69884a1906f2c1524c33981e/01_111698040.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 28, 2013  
## [Inside Volkswagen: How to Mass-Produce an Automotive Icon](https://time.com/3877191/volkswagen-photos-from-the-wolfsburg-factory-1951/)  
by Ben Cosgrove

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