Lotus Unveils a Hybrid V8 Supercar to Save the Brand. The Real Story Is the Chinese Factory Running at One-Fifth Capacity
Lotus wants the headline this week to be about a supercar. A new hybrid V8...
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Russia’s Record Car-Import Month Has Two Real Stars: A Country That Builds No Cars, and a Corolla That Won’t Die
Start with the number every outlet will repeat this week: Russia imported nearly 95,000 passenger...
Honda’s Profit Just Doubled. Its Two Biggest Problems Haven’t Moved An Inch.
Honda’s profit more than doubled last quarter. That’s the version of this story built for...
Ford Just Blew Up the Assembly Line It Invented. The Target Is a Used Tesla.
Ford wants you looking at a $30,000 electric truck due in 2027. Look instead at...
BYD’s Commercial Trucks Grew 183% In July. Its Passenger Cars Are The Ones Actually In Trouble
Somewhere inside BYD’s July sales numbers is an admission the company will never put in...
BYD’s Humanoid Robot Debuts in August, and the Robot Isn’t the Part That Should Worry Everyone Else
BYD has run this play twice before. In 1995, it started as a battery maker,...
Brazil Is Buying Chinese Cars By the Billions. The Real Fight Is Over Screwdrivers
Everyone is reporting that Brazil just became the world’s largest importer of Chinese-made vehicles, spending...
Audi Already Closed One EV Plant. The One It Might Close Next Builds an EV, Too.
Audi already knows what happens to a plant that builds an electric car nobody buys...
BYD Patented A Car That Won’t Start If Something’s Alive Underneath It. That’s Not Even The Real Story
Picture a cold morning outside Shenzhen. A BYD hatchback sits in a driveway, and a...
Ford’s Empty Spanish Factory Found a Savior: The Chinese Company It Sold Volvo To in 2010
Ford and Geely just announced they’re going to build cars together in Valencia, Spain, starting...
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...
Alabama Wants Credit for $15.6 Billion in Car Plants. Congress Might Ban One of Them Anyway
Alabama spent this week celebrating a number: $15.6 billion. That’s the total two auto industry...
Volkswagen’s China Profit Machine Just Collapsed. Nobody Told the Balance Sheet.
Volkswagen wants you to look at one number from its half-year presentation: automotive net cash...
Porsche Just Raised Its Layoff Total to 8,900. The Growth Rate Is the Real Warning Sign
Porsche’s supervisory board didn’t just approve another 5,000 job cuts this week. It quietly admitted...
The US Banned Chinese Connected-Car Tech. The Company Racing to Replace It Started With a Chinese License
Forget the model years for a second. The number that actually matters in America’s ban...