Volkswagen Fought EU Tariffs On Chinese Cars In 2024. Now Its Own Best-Seller Got Smoked By A Brand Called Jaecoo, And VW Wants Tariffs Yesterday
Volkswagen wants Brussels to move fast on tariffs against Chinese plug-in hybrids. What the company...
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BMW’s Next Big EV Is Being Built in a ‘Free Trade’ Country That’s Still Taxed Worse Than Germany
BMW just confirmed that its next electric sedan and crossover will come off the line...
Congress’s New Bill Would Ban Every Chinese-Made Car in America — Including the One Waymo Swears Isn’t Spying On You
Somewhere in Waymo’s Arizona manufacturing facility, a new robotaxi called the Ojai is getting fitted...
Trump’s Auto Tariffs Flopped in Canada — So Washington Is Taxing Their Wine, Cheese, and Hockey Sticks Instead
Somewhere in a Hyundai dealership in Mississauga, someone is having a very good eighteen months....
Nissan Blames Crossovers For Killing The Altima. A Collapsed Honda Merger Is The Real Reason
Nissan wants you to believe the Altima is dying because America fell out of love...
China’s EVs Just Passed Gas Cars at the Export Dock. Now the Dock Is the Problem.
China’s EV exports have passed gasoline cars for the first time, but weak domestic demand and rising tariffs are already…
Hyundai Just Turned On a Georgia Battery Plant. The One Down the Coast Is Still Recovering From an ICE Raid
Bartow County, Georgia doesn’t get much attention, and for a few weeks this summer that...
Hyundai, Kia, and GM Korea Are Barreling Toward a Strike Over Jobs the Robots Haven’t Even Taken Yet
Every summer, Hyundai and Kia’s unions sit down with management, argue about bonuses, and usually...
Ford Turned an Illegal Tariff Refund Into a Great Quarter. A Mach-E Owner Wants His Cut.
Somewhere in Dearborn, an accountant made a call that a plaintiff’s lawyer in San Diego...
Mexico’s ‘Electrified’ Car Boom Is Mostly Just Hybrids, and It Picked the Worst Possible Week to Look Suspicious
Mexico’s auto distributors want you to know that electrified vehicle sales are up 44% this...
Used Car Prices Climbed Again in June. Turns Out the 2021 Chip Shortage Just Never Sent Its Final Bill
Cox Automotive has a word for what happened to used-car prices in June: “normalizing.” It’s...
China Can’t Sell Cars to Its Own People Anymore, So It’s Flooding Everyone Else’s Driveway Instead
China’s passenger-car market spent June doing exactly what it’s done for the better part of...
BYD Tried Twice to Buy Its Way Into Renault. Renault Said No Twice, and Money Had Nothing to Do With It
For most of the last two decades, if a Western automaker wanted to sell cars...
Toyota Just Pulled the Tacoma Out of Mexico, and It Buried the Real Reason in One Sentence
Toyota’s $3.6 billion press release out of San Antonio arrived with a governor, two U.S....
Porsche Just Killed Its Battery Factory, Its E-Bike Brand, and a Chunk of Bugatti. The Sales Numbers Are the Boring Part.
Porsche delivered 122,306 cars worldwide in the first half of 2026, a 16 percent drop...