The French and Italian-American companies’ boards have agreed to merge, starting a process that will likely take over a year even after shareholders vote. As part of the “50/50” deal, the Peugeot family may buy more shares, and Dongfeng will turn in a good portion of theirs, to keep ownership balanced. The current major shareholders […]
We are bombarded by cyber attacks on our computers, phones, city and hospital networks, and, as time goes on, in our cars. While cars have largely been ignored until now, criminals have started to catch on and are getting set to rob people and car companies alike. According to Upstream, of Herzliya, Israel, nearly half […]
When is a hybrid people-mover not the green choice? When it’s the 2020 Lincoln Aviator Grand Touring model, which has a twin-turbo V6 engine guzzling down fuel at 23 mpg. The big crossover has an all-electric range of just 21 miles, with a 56 MPGe rating on electricity alone. Overall gas mileage is rated at […]
It has been weeks now since the Tesla Cybertruck has been unveiled. The reactions from various websites has been mostly strong with mixed opinions. Musk has tweeted out that the Cybertruck has indeed been received well since its debut with over 250,000 pre-orders. Expect to wait a couple of years for the supposed arrival. However, […]
Mercedes and BMW’s best design language belonged to the 1990s. Mercedes used mature design characteristics back in the 90s, with simple and conservative lines and curves presenting the sexiness of some 40-year old male-model in a black tuxedo, who still had some youth left in his charming smile behind his D&G sunglasses. They created some […]
The Chevy Colorado is here to stay; General Motors just announced that it will invest $1.5 billion to produce them at its Wentzville truck plant, keeping 4,000 jobs in the U.S. (based on GM’s wording, that may include non-GM employees or people at other plants). The next generation is unlikely to look like the curvaceous […]
How did we do at predicting the new Chevy Suburban’s looks, and did our erstwhile renderer, Ryan D., do better than General Motors itself? Here’s Ryan’s image: And here’s the authentic General Motors image. Ryan accentuated the sides of the car to give hints of muscle, while using a traditional chrome bumper and grille to […]
Volkswagen and Ford have joined up on electric cars, since VW wants to spread out its investments and Ford has pretty much just copied Toyota and leaned on Magna for its electrics and hybrids. The next step may be pickups, but this time the product would be flowing from Ford to VW instead of the […]
After months of speculation, GM has finally taken the wraps off of it’s next generation full size SUVs as they prepare to do battle with competitors like the recently-redesigned Ford Expedition and upcoming Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer. The design of the Tahoe and Suburban now has some softer lines on the side, with the […]
Phoebe Wall Howard of the Detroit Free Press, in a story picked up by USA Today, wrote that seven Ford employees knew about defects in transmissions used by the Ford Fiesta and Ford Focus. The employees told the Freep writer that the problems were known to Engineering, Product Development, and Manufacturing alike, along with other groups. […]