This week’s flurry of Dodge announcements points to FCA aligning to fill voids Ford, GM are leaving in the market.
Photo: FCA Media website. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) issued a flurry of Dodge announcements late this week that, although they tell us little that we...
Volkswagen, Dumas electrify the automotive world with all-time Pikes Peak International Hill Climb record.
Photo: Volkswagen U.S. media website. As covered in our article just over a month ago, Volkswagen said they would do it. And on Sunday, they...
You’ve come a long way, Hyundai (and Kia and Genesis): Unprecedented J.D. Power findings rank 3 Korean automakers at the top of the quality scale.
Photographed in the UK, this 1986 Hyundai Pony is an example of the model that Hyundai marketed in the U.S. as the first-generation Excel. Photo...
The 2019 MX-5 Miata is getting more horsepower. And we approve.
Photo: Mazda USA Newsroom. Ah, Miata. The car that, in spite of sometimes being maligned as a “chick-mobile” or “secretary’s car,” has earned a reputation...
Show cars, hot rods, hoopties and more roll in for the car show in Columbia PA today.
No, the annual car show in Columbia PA ain’t exactly the concours d’elegance at Pebble Beach. But maybe that’s what’s good about it—because being an...
No, Rolls-Royce didn’t announce thousands of job cuts today. But Rolls-Royce did.
Rolls-Royce Cars and Cognac Event. Photo: BMW Group Press Club. It was a study in random PR mishaps and brand confusion. And it’s hard to...
Does size matter when it comes to safety? MINI Hardtop 2 Door bags IIHS safety award for criteria that include ‘nearly avoiding’ a collision, BMW Group says.
Photo: BMW Group media website. When it comes to factors that affect crashworthiness as well as lighting and driver assist technologies, size might not matter...
5 things to love about the Lincoln MKT
Photo: Bill Hayward. You can make a strong argument that, of any automotive format, it’s the station wagon that encompasses the widest range of elements...
Vending machine for cars opens in Orlando.
Photo: Carvana. Move over, Disney World and Universal—because Orlando just earned a new distinction as the home of the latest vending machine for used cars....
Drivers of new Cadillacs will soon be able to say, ‘Look, Ma—no hands!’
Photo: GM media website. Soon, when your baby drives off in a brand new Cadillac, he or she might not even have hands on the...
Pre-sale tickets available now for 6th annual 10,000 Lakes Concours d’Elegance in Minnesota
Photo: 10,000 Lakes Concours d’Elegance. Pristinely preserved vintage automobiles along the bucolic shores of a placid lake on a lazy Minnesota summer day… it can’t...
To sell the new Focus lineup, Ford is asking Europeans to talk to a sign.
Photo: Ford Media Center. Although Ford announced in April that that they will discontinue U.S. sales of all of the Focus lineup except the Focus...
A (partially, I hope) driverless future and the emergence of ‘autonomous car as marketing platform’
Not long after we published our post yesterday on what the “money trails” of the automotive and financial industries are telling us about the future...
Despite tragic accidents, the self-driving car money trail tells one story: They’re here. They’re autonomous. Get used to it.
Waymo-branded self-driving Chrysler Pacifica. Photo: FCA. It doesn’t take much research to at least get a “Zen sense,” if not a quantitative sense, that auto...