by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 17, 2020
Slow off the blocks, Volkswagen has gotten serious about SUVs, and it wants to make that clear with this teaser image of the Tiguan which will undergo a major update for 2022. The compact crossover has slipped into the shadows of the bigger Atlas in the last several...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 17, 2020
Karma Automotive executives say it will be ready to release a new model, the Karma Revero GTE, in the spring of 2021. The GTE will be the company’s first all-electric vehicle and furthers the Southern California-based company’s signature luxury, sustainability and...
by Michael Strong | Apr 16, 2020
A little more than two months after being appointed Ford Motor Co.’s Chief Operating Officer, Jim Farley is further putting his stamp on the automaker with a reorganization of the company’s top executives and responsibilities. Ford CEO Jim Hackett has been looking to...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 16, 2020
It’s been more than a month since the last Atlas sport-utility vehicle rolled out of the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but the automaker hopes to have the line begin moving again sometime during the week of April 27th, part of a “phased restart...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 16, 2020
With its factories in many key markets shuttered and sales largely dried up, Volkswagen said Thursday it is abandoning its original sales and earnings outlooks for 2020 – with no clear alternative in sight. The German automaker is just the latest to admit that it’s...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 16, 2020
Elon Musk lost a key round in legal battle with a group of investors angered by one the Tesla CEO’s stray tweets. A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit against Tesla Inc. and Musk can go forward to trial. The lawsuit claims that Musk – and by extension Tesla...
by Michael Strong | Apr 16, 2020
Volkswagen of America is the latest automaker to step up efforts to help customers suffering financially due to the coronavirus pandemic, implementing a program called the Community-Driven Promise. Unemployment claims in the U.S. have risen to all-time highs as the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 15, 2020
U.S. new car sales are now running at an even lower rate than were seen during the depths of the Great Recession – though there is a small silver lining, as the downturn this month isn’t quite as bad as many analysts had been forecasting. With automakers and dealers...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 15, 2020
For those living in the little town of Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, the silver lining of the state’s pandemic shelter-in-place order was a sharp drop in traffic along both I-696 and eight-lane Woodward Ave., traditionally busy thoroughfares that slice through the city....
by TDB Staff | Apr 15, 2020
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by TDB Staff | Apr 15, 2020
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by TDB Staff | Apr 15, 2020
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