by Larry Printz | Nov 20, 2020
Are you planning to travel during the upcoming holiday season? According to the American Automobile Association, as many as 50 million Americans plan to travel 50 miles or more for Thanksgiving with about 95% – or 47.8 million – estimated to be doing so by car, a 4.3%...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Nov 18, 2020
The United Kingdom will bar the sale of all new gas and diesel-powered vehicles starting in 2030, the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson moving up an earlier ban by a decade. As part of Britain’s new “green industrial revolution,” the sale of hybrid vehicles...
by Michael Strong | Nov 16, 2020
The end of the calendar year kicks off the beginning of awards season in the auto industry, the latest being Motor Trend’s annual “Car of the Year” award, which for 2021 is going to the Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Mercedes was quick to announce its capture of the latest...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 26, 2020
The $38 billion merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Groupe PSA appears to be ready to clear its final hurdle: approval from European Union anti-trust regulators. Quoting “people close to the matter,” Reuters news service is reporting the deal that will create the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 21, 2020
New Jersey is joining California in calling for a future ban on the sale of gasoline-powered motor vehicles to combat global warming. The recommendation to stop the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles starting in 2035 was included in a new report from the New Jersey...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 16, 2020
Daimler AG says its financial outlook has improved dramatically in the third quarter after a steep drop in the first half of the year due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 around the globe, which is beginning to reappear across Europe. The company’s rebound during the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 16, 2020
U.S. automotive safety regulators are now looking into reports that Takata may have concealed defective seatbelt components potentially impacting tens, evens hundreds of millions of vehicles sold around the world during the last two decades. Japanese authorities...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 15, 2020
After frustrating Democratic Senators by not providing substantive answers to a variety of questions, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett did provide some small insight about her views on climate change during her confirmation hearing Wednesday. Climate...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 12, 2020
General Motors is shutting down the company’s assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the factory that builds the Chevrolet Corvette, for one week, idling approximately 1,400 employees due to a parts shortage. The temporary shutdown of production of one of GM’s...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Oct 2, 2020
Under former CEO Ferdinand Piech, Volkswagen pieced together a vast array of brands covering everything from entry-level small cars to ultra-exotic sedans and sports car but, now, it looks like current CEO Herbert Diess wants to unravel the empire and sell or spin off...
by Michael Strong | Oct 1, 2020
After miles upon miles of effort, the list of potential winners of the North American Car, Utility and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) Awards has been whittled down to a list of 27 semifinalists in the three categories for the 2021 honors. The list includes eight cars, 15...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Sep 29, 2020
One thing you can count on with BMW is that there’ll be plenty of variants to follow the launch of every major product line. And so it is with the 4-Series coupe we first saw in June. Just a week ago the Bavarian automaker revealed the next-generation M4 and, today,...
