by TDB Staff | Apr 15, 2020
Affiliate Disclosure x The Detroit Bureau and its partners may be compensated if you purchase the recommended services. This allows us to provide in-depth research at no cost to you. Trucks don’t just get you from point A to point B – they haul a lot of...
by TDB Staff | Apr 15, 2020
Affiliate Disclosure x The Detroit Bureau and its partners may be compensated if you purchase the recommended services. This allows us to provide in-depth research at no cost to you. As part of America’s Best Warranty, Hyundai’s...
by TDB Staff | Apr 15, 2020
Affiliate Disclosure x The Detroit Bureau and its partners may be compensated if you purchase the recommended services. This allows us to provide in-depth research at no cost to you. Kia vehicles are known to go for miles and miles. As time goes on, you...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 15, 2020
General Motors has filed a patent application for a system that continuously updates a vehicle’s on-board maps and navigation guidance. GM said its patent application covers, “A system for updating a distributed navigation map for a motor vehicle includes one or more...
by Michael Strong | Apr 15, 2020
China’s auto industry seems to be hustling toward full speed, if Tesla Inc.’s March results are any indication. The EV maker’s registrations jumped 450% last month, compared with February’s totals, according to auto consultancy LMC Automotive. The company’s totals...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 15, 2020
The bidding war for the new Tesla Gigafactory that will build the EV maker’s battery-electric pickup trucks appears to have intensified. Joplin, Missouri, which sits close to the state’s borders with Oklahoma and Kansas, is reportedly prepared to offer Tesla a...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 14, 2020
Months after the coronavirus pandemic reached U.S. shores, barely 1% of Americans have been tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. So, Hyundai is stepping up funding aimed at expanding field testing, doubling the financial support it is providing to 22...
by Michael Strong | Apr 14, 2020
General Motors is moving quickly on its ventilator production, revealing Tuesday that its first models for the federal government contract are ready to be shipped. The automaker secured a $489.4-million contract with the Trump administration to produce the much-needed...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 14, 2020
Cadillac is lifting a page out of the German handbook with the launch of two super high-performance models, the CT4-V Blackwing and CT5-V Blackwing. The Detroit marque already offers “V-Series” versions of those two sedans, but will take things up a significant level...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 14, 2020
General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Co. now plan to shutter plants in Brazil into June in response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus across South America. Toyota said it was suspending auto production at its Brazil plants until at least June 22. GM also expects to...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 14, 2020
He survived one epidemic only to be brought down by the coronavirus pandemic. Automotive historian Mike Davis, a long-time contributor to TheDetroitBureau.com – and a long-time personal friend – is one of the roughly 25,000 Americans who have so far died from...
by Michael Strong | Apr 13, 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic is going to move Ford Motor Co. $600 million into the red for the first quarter on a pre-tax basis, officials revealed Monday. The company reported a $2.4 billion profit for the same period last year. As with all automakers, during the...
