Sheriff Resurrects 20-year-old LT1-powered Chevrolet Caprice
An Illinois sheriff knows a barn find when he sees one. According to the Northwest Herald, McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Stadler spotted an old parade Chevrolet Caprice with 4,000 miles...
View ArticleVolkswagen Lawyer: Automaker May Buy Back Unfixable Cars
A lawyer for Volkswagen said in court that the automaker would buy back cars that it can’t fix in time, the first admission from the company that some of its cars may not be fixable, according to the...
View ArticleIt’s Time For The Auto Industry’s Calendar To Look Like Yours
When is a Gregorian calendar not a calendar? When December 2015 ends on January 4, 2016. AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson brought greater attention to the subject of the unnecessarily convoluted auto sales...
View ArticleWho Will Build Sergio’s Next Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200?
FCA’s sweater-in-chief Sergio Marchionne has a plan to turn around the debt-laden and ailing automaker: stop building cars that lose money. That sounds like common sense, so long as oil prices stay low...
View ArticleThe History of Scion’s Sales Collapse
Is Toyota about to officially murder the company’s fledgling Scion marque? If so, it will be both the exact outcome analysts and observers and fans predicted for years and a surprising turn of events....
View ArticleScion Monospec Strategy Continuing for 2017, Trims May Arrive for 2018
Beyond the funky metal, there’s one element that set Scion apart from its Toyota mothership: monospec pricing. By offering up only a single trim for each models and reducing options to paint colors,...
View ArticleChrysler 200 Sales In Freefall, No Wonder Sergio Shut Down Production
News that 200 production would instantly end, albeit temporarily, was overshadowed by news that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles would, sooner than later, farm out the design and production of their small and...
View ArticleYou Still Want to Buy a Volkswagen TDI? Sign Here
The fuel cost savings of a diesel vehicle can be huge for those who eat up highway miles. However, with Volkswagen’s voluntary stop sale of those vehicles implicated in the diesel emissions scandal,...
View ArticleFeinberg: Volkswagen Will Offer ‘Generous Solution’ to U.S. Customers
Kenneth Feinberg, the man behind Volkswagen’s claims fund, stated American VW TDI customers should expect an offer that will make them very happy in an interview published this weekend. When asked by...
View ArticleUgliest Sales Yet: January Was Nasty For Volkswagen
We knew it wouldn’t be easy for them. We knew it would get worse before it got better. But did you know it would be this difficult for Volkswagen of America to sell cars, and did you know it would get...
View ArticleFull-size SUVs Aren’t Taking Part in the SUV Boom
U.S. sales of utility vehicles increased 16 percent last year. Amidst the modest decrease in volume reported by the industry in January 2016, U.S. sales of SUVs and crossovers jumped by more than 6...
View ArticleInside Stories From the War Between Automakers And Dealers Over Exports
There’s not a more uncomfortable phone call for a car dealership’s finance manager to make then asking a customer to come back to have their finance or lease contract rewritten. This is typically...
View ArticleSUVs And Crossovers Will Outsell Cars In America, But When?
Canadians purchased and leased nearly 43,000 SUVs and crossovers in January 2016. At the same time, fewer than 34,000 passenger cars made their ways to Canadian driveways. This wasn’t an anomaly....
View ArticleShifting and Drifting: How Many Human-driven Years Remain?
Autonomous vehicles and shared mobility are invoked in our contemporary discourse as an inevitable fate. There is an unsettling undercurrent rippling around a not altogether desirable future for the...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Unsafe at Any Age
The author of the most famous — and controversial — book ever penned about the automotive industry turns 82 today. Automobile safety crusader Ralph Nader probably wouldn’t have made it to this ripe old...
View ArticleTTAC News Round-up: Clock Ticks at Volkswagen, CEO Switch and Volvo Sees a...
The Environmental Protection Agency is pointing at its watch and glaring at Volkswagen. That, an opening for the Swedes, an electric propulsion prediction, a high-end guy gets a new job, and Tesla gets...
View ArticleTTAC News Round-up: Honda Separates the Kids, Toyota Funks It Up, and the...
The CEO of Honda is pulling the car over and giving a stern lecture to the kids in the backseat. That, a Scion gets a corporate makeover, Google goes in for autonomous feng shui, Fiat Chrysler...
View ArticleMercedes-Benz Hasn’t Escaped the Diesel Dragnet
After staying relatively clean in the ongoing diesel emissions scandal that’s keeping European automakers up at night, Mercedes-Benz now finds itself the potential target of an Environmental Protection...
View ArticleTTAC News Round-up: China Binds Up Holland, BMW Needs New Friends, Young...
Amsterdam’s port facility is more crowded than a Walmart on Black Friday and it’s all China’s fault. That, BMW wonders how it all went wrong, Millennials bare their souls to a salesman, Toyota walks...
View ArticleElio Motors Stock Soars in Over-The-Counter Trading
(Caveat: I know nothing at all about stocks, bonds or other financial instruments.) After automotive startup Elio Motors raised approximately $17 million dollars in a Reg-A+ stock offering the company...
View ArticleNot So Fast With That Lawsuit, Guys: Volkswagen
An anticipated multi-billion dollar lawsuit from disgruntled Volkswagen shareholders is without merit, the embattled German automaker said on March 2. A document made public by Volkswagen states that...
View ArticleMarchionne to Apple: Pick Me! Pick Me!
It seems Sergio Marchionne may be switching teams when it comes to shacking up with another company to build cars of the future, reports Bloomberg. At the Geneva International Motor Show, the...
View ArticleChrysler 200 Demand Dries Up As FCA Tries To Clear 200 Inventory Glut
The plan was straightforward. With demand for conventional midsize cars gradually decreasing and buyers in Fiat Chrysler’s U.S. showrooms increasingly turning to flexible Jeep SUVs, Chrysler 200...
View ArticleTTAC News Round-up: America Slams the Brakes on Efficiency, Bonuses at...
Gasoline is gloriously cheap and the automotive industry is taking a break from the tiresome “more mpg” game. That, Christmas comes early for Volkswagen employees, Carlos Ghosn has a plan to save big...
View ArticleApparently Volkswagen USA’s Fall From Grace Hasn’t Reached Its Sales Nadir Yet
The good news? Volkswagen of America sold more new vehicles in February 2016 than the company managed to sell in January 2016. The bad news? Improving upon January’s results was a given. February...
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