by Jim Stickford | Mar 5, 2021
The question of whether used vehicle dealers should be required to complete open recalls on vehicles before they can sell them is a major one for consumer protections groups – one which U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal believes he has answer for. According to a...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2021
The U.S. saw highway deaths rise to their highest level since 2007 despite a significant reduction in the miles Americans drove last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Preliminary data indicates as many as 42,060 Americans died in motor vehicle crashes last year –...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 12, 2021
The smog that frequently hangs over cities like Los Angeles, Paris, Mumbai and Beijing may seem like a reality of modern life, but it’s also responsible for significantly more deaths, as well. It causes as many as one in five premature deaths, in fact, according to a...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 11, 2021
(This story has been updated to include comments from organizers of the Chicago Auto Show.) Hope springs eternal, at least with auto show organizers who have had to cope with a pandemic that is now entering its second year. If all goes according to – the latest –...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 11, 2021
Each year on Feb. 11, just before Valentine’s Day, they have unique holiday in Flint, Michigan. It’s called “White Shirt Day,” and it marks the day in 1937 when workers ended the strike against the General Motors that elevated the power of the United Auto Workers...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 10, 2021
The United Auto Workers has reservations about the auto industry’s push into electric vehicles — and it raised them directly with the Biden administration — UAW President Rory Gamble said during a webinar organized by the Automotive Press Association in Detroit....
by Larry Printz | Feb 8, 2021
General Motors President Mark Reuss recently announced that Super Cruise, the company’s hands-free semi-autonomous driver-assistance system, will be optional on 22 vehicles by 2023. First launched in 2017 on the Cadillac CT6, which ended production last month,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 4, 2021
In an effort to pacify its habitually restless shareholders, Daimler AG will divide into two separate companies – one dedicated to passenger cars and the second to manage its heavy truck and bus business, which has long been part of the company’s structure....
by Larry Printz | Jan 29, 2021
It’s hard to remember a time when the Chevrolet Corvette was as popular as the new eighth generation Stingray has proven to be. Chevrolet’s decision to challenge the exotics at a fraction of their price by switching to a mid-engine layout led to 45,000 pre-orders last...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 29, 2021
Daimler AG said in a preliminary financial report that it expects to finish 2020 with earnings before interest and taxes of $6.6 billion euros, or about $8 billion, beating analysts’ expectations. But it also cautioned that results for the first quarter of 2021 could...
by Michael Strong | Jan 28, 2021
The nation’s largest used-car seller, CarMax, is now only selling used vehicles, after announcing it was just about complete the sell off its last two new-vehicle retail locations — Toyota dealers. The company’s 220 locations will now sell a little bit of...
by Larry Printz | Jan 27, 2021
Continuing its program of issuing fresh versions of classic vehicles from its past, Jaguar Classic is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its celebrated C-type race car with limited production run of new C-type Continuation cars. “Driven by some of the most-admired...
