by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 17, 2020
Hit hard and hit early by the global coronavirus pandemic, Europe is now hoping to start getting its economy back in running order – with the auto industry leading the charge. Hyundai was first out of the box, relaunching operations at a Czech plant on Tuesday. A...
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 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 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 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 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...
