by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 12, 2020
Most parents don’t take nearly five months to name their new “child,” but it’s taken Hyundai and Aptiv, the big automotive supplier, that long to come up with the right one for the collaboration in autonomous vehicles they launched in March — Motional. The two words...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 10, 2020
Parked in my driveway alongside a compact sport-utility vehicle I was also driving a few weeks back, the sheer mass of the new 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe was hard to miss. In fact, the completely updated model is nearly 7 inches longer than the old Tahoe. In today’s...
by Michael Strong | Aug 6, 2020
To say that Tesla’s been turning the industry on its ear for the past 18 months might be an understatement. It’s Model 3 sedan has been nothing short of a success and the new Model Y seems to be following it its footsteps. Of course, this makes sense since the two...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 6, 2020
Ford plans to introduce its new Active Drive Assist system on several 2021 models, including the all-electric Mach-E, while Cadillac is expanding the use of its own Super Cruise in the coming year, both systems allowing drivers to travel for extended periods with...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 6, 2020
While autonomous vehicles hold great promise, the investment in the technology has shrunk substantially, the CEO and co-founder of a leading AV firm revealed at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars this week. Chris Urmson, a leading...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 5, 2020
Only days after saying the show must go on, the Specialty Equipment Market Association has tossed in the towel, announcing that it has cancelled the annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Originally scheduled to take place from Nov. 3–6, the event joins a long and growing...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 4, 2020
The line between the luxury and mainstream segments is getting as blurry as the lines that define a batter’s box around the seventh inning of a major league baseball game. A case in point is the 2020 Hyundai Sonata Limited, a midsized passenger car that sits at the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 3, 2020
Detroit’s three automakers are stepping up their concentration on trucks and SUVs during the second half of 2020 even as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers and electric vehicles absorb an increasing share of their capital spending. Fiat Chrysler, which will soon go through...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 29, 2020
It’s been a tough year for auto shows, virtually every major global event this year, from New York to Paris to Beijing, canceled in the face of the coronavirus crisis. And what will happen in 2021 is far from certain, but the coming year could get off to a bad start....
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 29, 2020
General Motors was able to circle the wagons and beat back the full brunt of the coronavirus pandemic during the second quarter, solidly outperforming the gloomy outlook forecast by Wall Street. With factories shuttered for two months and sales sagging to Great...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 27, 2020
Their names may be “Fluffy,” and “Spot,” but don’t expect to see workers spending time petting the “dogs” Ford plans to unleash at its Van Dyke Transmission Plant in suburban Detroit next month. That’s because they’re actually robots developed by Boston Dynamics, a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 27, 2020
General Motors, along with several other top automakers including BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, have been accused of using forced labor at factories in China by an Australian think tank. The report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute contradicts GM’s...
