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. […]
When is a police car not a police car? When it’s a Chevy Tahoe, Ford Explorer, or Dodge Durango, or even an F-150 pickup. The only traditional police cars left are the Dodge Charger and, bending the rules a bit, the Ford Fusion Hybrid. (Ford does not actually use the civilian labels on its cars, […]
In the latest edition of “Fun Autopilot Fails,” a 2018 Tesla Model 3 rammed a parked state police car in Connecticut on Saturday. The highway patrol vehicle had stopped behind a stranded car on I-95, and the Tesla slammed into it. The police car, while a Ford, was fortunately not a Crown Victoria; those had […]
General Motors and LG (Lucky Goldstar) Chem will open a new plant in Lordstown, Ohio to make batteries, creating over 1,100 jobs (some of which will likely go to former GM Lordstown employees). The investment is estimated at $2.3 billion, and will go to a greenfield site. GM sold its Lordstown plant to Lordstown […]
We’ve speculated recently that Chrysler will receive rebadged Peugeot vehicles, assuming they plan to bring those to the United States after the merger is finalized. Aside from those vehicles, we heard a while back that Chrysler was set to get two new crossovers: one midsize three-row crossover to replace the Dodge Journey, based on the […]
General Motors (GM) was actually a pioneer in electric cars, with the creation of the Bob Lutz-sponsored Chevy Volt, followed by the Bolt. While it was critiqued by many for not being a Tesla, the Bolt did have two major advantages over the Model 3: it was well made, without the rather insane defects of […]
You can get a light-hybrid Ram 1500 with the V6 or V8 gasoline engines, but, so far, we haven’t seen it with the promised plug-in system. One would think a plug-in hybrid system would be easy for Ram; the Pacifica minivan has been out for a while now, using the same engine, albeit with a […]
The people behind Tesla’s success are now set to build their own electric car in Arizona, starting at the end of 2020. Former Model S chief engineer Peter Rawlinson projected a very slow ramp-up of production to avoid Tesla’s many quality gaffes; that’s one reason why production is estimated at just 15,000 for all of […]