Toyota Motor North America sales dropped 18 percent in June to 170,155, and were off 23 percent for the quarter to 531,105 as the Japanese automaker continued to struggle with production issues amid steady consumer demand. The results left Toyota Motor trailing General Motors U.S. sales by 47,402 in the second quarter, and down 41,918
Month: July 2022
WASHINGTON — The new chief of the nation’s top auto safety regulator said the agency hasn’t been holding back as it works through a backlog of regulatory to-dos, sorts through first-of-its-kind crash data and steps up an investigation into Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot. “I think we’ve probably increased the scrutiny on all automakers since last year,”
In this article CR Labor slowdowns and strikes at the German and Netherland ports are creating a massive pile-up of export containers bound for the U.S. that will take months to clear out. According to the bills of lading found through ImportGenius, some of the items that are exported out of these ports are critical
Automotive News Europe honors the winners of the 2022 Rising Stars awards. Through July 13, the 19 winners will be featured. The Rising Star for Engineering is David Herberg, who is Adient’s vice president of engineering for Europe, Middle East, Africa. For his full profile click here. The 2022 Rising Stars winners will be honored
DETROIT — Beset by increasing competition, Tesla Inc.’s electric vehicle market share is expected to plummet from a dominating 70 percent today to just 11 percent by 2025 as incumbents such as General Motors and Ford overtake it, according to the annual ‘Car Wars’ study. John Murphy, a senior auto analyst at Bank of America
2:10 PM ET SILVERSTONE — The FIA will start enforcing rules around how much Formula One cars can bounce — or porpoise — from the French Grand Prix onwards. F1’s governing body has introduced a Technical Directive on the issue following safety concerns about the impact of the bouncing on drivers’ health. After the Azerbaijan
Pour one out for the Hyundai Veloster N. On Wednesday, Hyundai confirmed to Motor Authority the production of Veloster N ends in July and will not return for the 2023 model year. The curtains have closed on one of our favorite hot hatches. This day was coming and everybody could feel it. The second Hyundai
It’s one thing to survive, it’s another entirely to survive with style, and nobody demonstrates that better than the off-road father-daughter team known as the Krazy Ks. The team posted a video of Katelynn – who’s only 15, by the way – rolling her modified Jeep Cherokee XJ during an off-roading event at Chokecherry Canyon,
Omvos, a Los Angeles-based company, calls itself an innovator in the e-scooter industry. Its most recent two-wheeler, although having a cutesy toy appearance, is marketed as a high-performance machine for the contemporary metropolitan commuter. Omvos is calling it the Vida-a-gogo—pretty interesting, if you ask me. Why don’t we take a closer look? The Vida-a-gogo is
After lowering the price of the Bolt EV and EUV by about $6,000 for the 2023 models, Chevrolet plans to compensate customers who paid more for the vehicles this year. All U.S. customers who bought a Bolt EV or EUV in 2022 are eligible for reimbursements, Chevy said this week in a memo to dealers
WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden set a nonbinding target last August for half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be zero emission by 2030, major automakers backed the goal with a caveat: They can’t do it alone. While automakers including Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Stellantis — whose executives stood