by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 9, 2021
The debate about General Motors’ ad spending with Black-owned media is heating up, music and fashion mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs the latest to speak out against the automaker. In a statement titled, “WE DEMAND MORE: A LETTER FROM SEAN COMBS,” the 51-year-old artist and...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 9, 2021
The LS has served as the flagship of Lexus fleet since Toyota Motor Corp. first launched the luxury brand back in 1989 to challenge German luxury brands such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz. The next generation model, the LS 500h, will come with advanced driver assistance...
by Michael Strong | Apr 8, 2021
The recent news from the Biden administration about its plans to alleviate the semiconductor shortage isn’t helping General Motors or Ford today as the company announced more production cuts. GM extended its shutdown of the Lansing (Michigan) Grand River plant until...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 8, 2021
The Explorer has been one of the anchors of the Ford Motor Co. product portfolio for three decades. Now the automaker is making a bid to stretch the nameplate’s broad appeal a bit further by adding three new versions of the ute. First is a performance-oriented model,...
by Michael Strong | Apr 8, 2021
New vehicle sales are on the rebound in the U.S. as the country slowly emerges from the pandemic. Many of those are buyers are looking for a good vehicle for their families — some of which may be growing as a result of all the enforced togetherness. A variety of...
by Larry Printz | Apr 8, 2021
We all know someone who has survived despite cataclysmically bad health or made poor decisions in life. And so it goes with Aston Martin. This is a company that very nearly went bankrupt for the EIGHTH time last year, having declared bankruptcy seven times since it...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 8, 2021
It’s been six years since the Hyundai Santa Cruz concept made its debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show — but the compact pickup will finally make its debut on April 15. Hyundai offered up an assortment of new images and a short video featuring Brad...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 8, 2021
Polestar, the Swedish electric performance car brand that is planning to take on the likes of Porsche and Tesla, plans to create the first completely climate neutral car by the end of the decade without using any kind of offsets common in the industrial world. It’s...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 7, 2021
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who have been working from home and spending hours a day in video meetings you might notice it can become difficult pulling your thoughts back together at the end of the day. And if you then have to climb behind the wheel...
by Michael Strong | Apr 7, 2021
Uber’s preparing to spend $250 million to increase drivers’ pay, including offering payment guarantees and other incentives to lure new drivers to the service and entice the existing ones to work more often. The effort comes as Uber and rival Lyft report their drivers...
by Jim Stickford | Apr 7, 2021
Well, Tesla’s Elon Musk spoke — again — about “privacy” issues with its vehicles in China, reiterating that it’s nonsensical to think that the EV maker would be engaged in anything nefarious. The Chinese government banned Tesla vehicles from its facilities because of...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 7, 2021
Even before taking office in January, then President-elect Joe Biden faced heavy pressure to tighten federal tailpipe regulations, reversing cuts enacted by his predecessor, Donald Trump. Michael Regan, the new EPA administrator, said this week updated emissions...
