Stellantis Is Grading Its Quality Fix on Three-Month-Old Cars. The €4.1 Billion Bill Is for Older Ones.
Stellantis booked €4.1 billion in 2025 for defects in vehicles it had already shipped. The quality metric it now reports…
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The New Fuel Economy Rules Carry a $0 Fine. The Part That Actually Matters Is Buried 700 Pages Deep.
The fine for missing the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards is zero dollars....
Stellantis Lined Up an Armored-Vehicle Builder for Brampton. Now It Needs the Union to Sign.
Stellantis has an armoured-vehicle maker lined up for its idle Brampton plant. The harder sell is Unifor, and the reason…
Car Payments Just Hit a September Record of $821. Prices Barely Moved. Here’s Where the Money Went.
J.D. Power says the average new-car payment hit a September-record $821. Prices rose just 0.7% and rates fell, so the…
Drones Hit a Saudi Crude Pipeline. The Bill Is Landing in America’s Diesel Tanks.
The Sept. 10 strike on Saudi Arabia's Hormuz bypass hit crude, but the lasting damage is to diesel, the fuel…
Detroit’s Share of U.S. Car Sales Is Headed for a Record Low. Here’s What 36% Really Means.
Cox Automotive forecasts GM, Ford and Stellantis at just over 36% of third-quarter U.S. sales, the lowest on record. The…
Honda Spent $1 Billion So One Ohio Line Could Build Anything. It Still Ran Out of Room.
Honda spent more than $1 billion so its Ohio lines could build gas, hybrid and electric cars interchangeably. A reported…
America Already Banned Chinese Cars. The Senate Is Fighting Over Who Gets to Unban Them.
Commerce banned Chinese connected-vehicle software and hardware in 2025. The Senate bill everyone calls a ban is really a fight…
A Car Dealer Just Led a $22 Million Bet on the Robot That Calls You About Your Oil Change
A dealer group led STELLA Automotive AI's $22.1 million round. The real prize is the service drive, and federal robocall…
McLaren’s £500 Million Plan Isn’t Really About the SUV. It’s About Finally Building Its Own Engines.
For 15 years, an outside firm built McLaren's engines. The supercar maker's £500 million UK expansion brings that work in-house,…
Allstate Added 708,000 Auto Policies Without Adding Premium. That Arithmetic Has to Land Somewhere.
Allstate's auto book grew by 708,000 policies and $39 million in quarterly premium, because the average premium fell 3.6%. Meanwhile…
BYD Already Has an American Factory. Washington Wrote a Law Around It.
BYD has built buses in California for over a decade. Congress still wrote it out of federal transit money. That…
Volkswagen Just Wrote Off €6 Billion of Porsche. The 911 Is the Only Porsche Still Growing.
Volkswagen's roughly €6 billion Porsche write-down isn't a verdict on the 911. It's the bill for a China, SUV and…
Today in Automotive History: September 25, 1926 — Henry Ford Announces the Five-Day, 40-Hour Workweek
Henry Ford announced the Ford five-day workweek on Sept. 25, 1926. The weekend it helped create still shapes how cars…
Tesla’s Semi Plant Opens, Rivian Recalls Nearly 99,000 EVs, and What Else Moved
Tesla's Semi factory opens, Rivian recalls 98,828 EVs over backup cameras, Geely hits four-minute charging, and the BYD question hangs…