by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 20, 2019
The coming year could see a massive transformation in the U.S. automotive market, or so it would seem based on the number of new – and established — automakers now taking advance deposits for planned EV products. Lucid Motors is the latest to open up an order...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 20, 2019
Inch by inch the vehicles used to carry passengers every day have gotten longer, wider and in many cases taller in the years since the end of the great recession. But the utility of small vehicles, such as the Mini Cooper Hardtop Two Door, is still hard to beat in the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 19, 2019
Three years after announcing plans to launch a second battery-car start-up, Henrik Fisker is finally set to lay his cards down on the table, his new Fisker Ocean SUV scheduled to make its formal debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas early next month. The...
by Michael Strong | Dec 19, 2019
Mercedes-Benz USA has agreed to pay as much as $20 million fines due its failure to handle U.S. vehicle recalls correctly. The penalty was dealt after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted a one-year investigation of 1.4 million vehicles...
by Michael Strong | Dec 19, 2019
General Motors issued two recalls covering more than 900,000 vehicles due to software and fire problems. The first recall covers more than 550,000 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Cadillac CT6 and GMC Sierra 1500 vehicles due to a potential software issue that could...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 19, 2019
Daimler and BMW are giving up their joint efforts to develop a car-sharing service in the U.S. even as they prepare to launch their new mobility company, “Your Now,” in Europe and other parts of the world. Share Now, in conjunction with its shareholders at Daimler AG...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 19, 2019
While SUVs and CUVs dominate the U.S. automotive market, pickup trucks aren’t far behind. In fact, the Ford F-Series, Chevrolet Silverado and Ram pickup have been the three best-selling nameplates for more than a generation. But the competition is heating up, not only...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 19, 2019
After more than a century of building cars and trucks, General Motors is shutting down its Oshawa Assembly operations this week as the company converts the plant to a stamping facility producing aftermarket parts. Approximately 300 employees will continue to...
by Michael Strong | Dec 18, 2019
Automakers will pay nearly $3 billion more in tariffs as a result of the higher content rules set forth in the new version of NAFTA, or the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, as President Donald Trump has dubbed it. The lofty figure comes from an estimate by the...
by Michael Strong | Dec 18, 2019
With a slew of television commercials featuring vehicles with big red bows or Santa being blackmailed by some smarmy kid – and plenty of actual statistics – December ’tis the month folks are out spending big money not just on presents, but new vehicles. What...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 18, 2019
We’ll be seeing a flood of new battery-electric vehicles during the next 12 months and BMW is the latest to offer some insight into what it has coming when it launches production of its first long-range battery-electric vehicle, the iX3, sometime next year. Carrying...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 18, 2019
The National Automobile Dealers Association posted its official auto sales forecast for the coming year, and it calls for sales of new vehicles to hit 16.8 million vehicles in 2020. “We expect new light-vehicles sales will come in at 16.8 million units for 2020,...
