
The Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR), with the help of the California Highway Patrol, were randomly picking vehicles for emissions testing — more commonly known as a smog check — on Lower Sacramento Road in Lodi on Tuesday.

On Oct. 1, the controversial Safer Consumer Products (SCP) regulation went into effect in the state of California, according to the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association .

Volkswagen Group of America’s settlement of a class-action lawsuit over alleged defects in the continuously variable transmissions in thousands of Audi vehicles has received final approval in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

California on Thursday joined the growing list of states that allow immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to obtain driver’s licenses — a measure supported not only by Latino activists but by police chiefs and insurance authorities.

Toyota Motor Corp. decided not to market its brake-override system as “safe stop” to avoid promising more than the mechanism could deliver for driver safety, the company’s top U.S. executive told a California jury.