If you’ve never heard of the CityRover and are wondering how bad this inoffensive looking small car could really be, know this: it went on sale in late 2003, and by 2005 Britain’s once mighty Rover Group, the modern incarnation of the company that had changed the world with the 1959 Mini, was dead. It
Month: March 2022
In this article F Attendees look at the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck at the Washington Auto Show in Washington on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images In the biggest deal it has done in a long time, Ford Motor Co. decided to split its electric-vehicle business
Stellantis will cut the distribution costs of its new vehicles by 40 percent by 2030, rising to a 50 percent reduction in Europe, as it shakes up the way it sells new cars. The promise was made as part of the company’s Dare Forward 2030 strategy. CEO Carlos Tavares also said that the automaker that
Dealers in West Virginia are pushing for major changes to the state’s franchise law that would define their role in vehicle reservations and when a dealership should be compensated after over-the-air updates are performed by an automaker. West Virginia’s House of Delegates last week unanimously passed the bipartisan bill known as HB 4560, which is
By Simon Alvarez Posted on March 6, 2022 Tesla may be hard at work in developing a legitimate full self-driving system, but CEO Elon Musk already seems to be looking at issues that the advent of autonomous driving would likely cause. In a recent comment on Twitter, Musk admitted that self-driving cars would likely make
If you’ve ever wanted to live in a Cabela’s, you’re in luck. Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart’s massive Indiana ranch is up for sale—with a $30 million asking price and a decidedly outdoorsy aesthetic. That eye-watering asking price does at least buy a lot of property. According to a listing first spotted by The Drive, the
In this article F GM TSLA Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk challenged the United Auto Workers to try and organize employees at his company’s plant in Fremont, California, and stepped up his attacks on the Biden administration’s policies. In a series of tweets this week, Musk went
BERLIN — Volkswagen Group has chosen its headquarters, the central German city of Wolfsburg, as the location for its new factory to buld the Trinity electric flagship sedan for the VW brand. Construction is set to begin in spring 2023, VW said on Friday. VW said it was investing about 2 billion euros ($2.18 billion)
Lucid made big promises for its launch vehicle, the sleek and luxurious Air sedan. And the California electric vehicle startup delivered, with a record 520 miles of EPA range, blistering performance and futuristic styling. Now, the Saudi-backed automaker is struggling to push enough Air models out the door of its Arizona factory to meet the
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Honda may have discontinued the Fit in North America after the 2020 model year, but the clever hatch lives on for the rest of the world where it’s sold as the Jazz and this week, a European specification 2022 Jazz Crosstar e:HEV joined the Carscoops fleet so we will be examining how practical a car
12:26 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — An IndyCar fan survey found that Romain Grosjean is the series’ most popular driver, Team Penske is the favorite team, and the Indianapolis 500 is the best race on the schedule. IndyCar said Friday that it received 53,579 responses to its Global Fan Survey, which was
Recent upticks in traffic deaths have sparked worry among safety advocates, government officials and even the industry itself. The toll — 1.36 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled — has been called “a national crisis” by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. That said, riding in cars is currently far safer than it was
Wiring supplier Leoni has set up a task force to deal with the disruption of cable deliveries caused by the Ukraine crisis. Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Mercedes-Benz have been forced to drastically reduce production in Germany after supplies of wiring harnesses from Leoni’s two factories in Ukraine dried up. Wire harnesses bundle up to
The vehicles and auto parts endangered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine may seem thousands of miles away from being a real problem. But the war could bring new worries to an issue that’s already bedeviling automakers: the global microchip shortage. Ukraine is the source for 70 percent of the world’s output of neon. Neon
According to a recent report by Green Car Congress, Volkswagen will transform its Technical Development (TD) division to put a much greater emphasis on vehicle software. The plan has a goal of reducing development time significantly. VW says the new initiative will be a complete revamp of the development process. It will be focused on the
Polestar this week unveiled a convertible sports car concept called the O2. The concept is based on a shortened version of Polestar’s own aluminum bonded platform debuting in the Polestar 5, and with any luck we’ll see it enter production to take on Tesla’s second-generation Roadster. 2022 Ford Everest Ford revealed its 2022 Everest, a
3:55 AM ET The Haas Formula One team has terminated its contract with Russian driver Nikita Mazepin and title sponsor Uralkali. The decision was taken in the wake of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and means no Russians are signed up to drive in F1 ahead of the new season. “Haas F1 Team has elected
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