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Cash for Clunkers will not take cars made after 1984. L.A. Times reporter Ken Bensinger talks with Bill Radke about how the classic car lobby managed to get that exclusion through Congress.

Bankrupt Frontier Airlines is going up for auction, and the low-cost carrier is likely to be bought by Southwest, which may raise eyebrows across the airline industry. Jeremy Hobson reports.

General Motors says its Chevy Volt can get 230 mpg. But the bloggers over at Environmental Economics found out how GM really arrived at that number. Click here for a link to the blog.

It's time for General Motors to get back to the business of making cars, and we got to preview its newest offering: the Buick LaCrosse 2010. Kai Ryssdal talks to L.A. Times car critic Dan Neil about why GM chose to relaunch with such an old brand.

Reporter Tamara Keith talks with Steve Chiotakis about the new 230-mile-per-gallon car it is introducing, and how it compares to Toyota's Prius.

The new General Motors is ending its partnership in a program that's designed to prevent mercury pollution from scrapped cars just as thousands of clunkers are being junked. Tamara Keith reports.

GM and eBay are expected to announce the start of a program that will allow customers to haggle over the price of cars and trucks via the online marketplace. Tamara Keith reports.

President Obama is headed to Guadalajara, Mex. to speak with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico about the recovery of the auto industry. One topic of discussion, and a particular sore spot, is the issue of cross-border trucking. Dan Grech reports.

Marketplace's Cash Peters was working on a story about his car . . . when he crashed it. He learned more than he every expected to about the world of repairs and how to look out for second-rate parts. And he has the skinny on how to go about it.