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Matt Schmitz

Former Assistant Managing Editor-News Matt Schmitz is a veteran Chicago journalist indulging his curiosity for all things auto while helping to inform car shoppers.

Approximately 1,500 model-year 2012-17 Lamborghini Aventador high-performance sports cars are being recalled.
Approximately 174,000 2011 Mazda2 hatchbacks, and 2010-11 Mazda3 cars and Mazdaspeed3 hatchbacks are being recalled.
We tested the Premier trim of the new-for-2017 body style on the Chevrolet Cruze five-seat hatchback in our Car Seat Check.
Our coverage of the 2017 Chicago Auto Show is underway. Here's everything you might have missed from the first media preview day.
At the 2017 Chicago Auto Show, visitors can see the Lego Batmobile from Warner Bros.' "The Lego Batman Movie." Watch the video for more.
Approximately 34,000 model-year 2017 Hyundai Elantra sedans are being recalled.
Despite continued declines in every other category of property crime, auto theft has defied its peers by surging in 2016.
Approximately 17,200 model-year 2016-17 Chevrolet Cruze sedans are being recalled for an incorrectly welded bracket.
Infiniti's big, decadently luxurious QX30 SUV may not have changed much in the past couple of model years, but its Car Seat Check credentials are taking a couple of dings for 2017.
Automakers have been largely mum about any new models debuting at the 2017 Chicago Auto Show, though that doesn't mean they won't.