Honda Won the World’s First Five-Star Road Safety Rating. It Says Nothing About How Safe Your Honda Actually Is.
The FIA Road Safety Index rates organisations, not cars — and its five-star tier did not exist until this year.…
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The 3D-Printing Revolution in Cars Already Happened. It’s in the Tool Crib, Not on the Car.
A new large-format printer aimed at car factories has exactly the same build volume as the one before it, and…
Beijing Never Banned the Gas Car. It Just Stopped Issuing the License Plates.
VW and Toyota are slashing prices on combustion cars in China. In Beijing, only 20,000 combustion plates will be issued…
Stellantis Is Reportedly Spending €1 Billion in France to Do Work Its Suppliers Already Do
The headline is a new van at Hordain. The detail worth reading is that part of the money reportedly brings…
Stellantis Pulled the Jeep Out of Brampton. Five Days Later It Unveiled an Armoured Ram With the Company Now Buying the Plant.
Canada told Stellantis that abandoning Brampton would be a default and started a recovery process ten months ago. It has…
China’s Draft Law Would Fine Automakers, Not Drivers, for Self-Driving Violations
Beijing just answered the question every automaker building self-driving cars has been dodging: when the...
America’s Answer to the Chinese Kill Switch Has a Weight Limit. Buses Are Above It.
The U.S. connected vehicle rule stops at 10,001 pounds. The bus Norway tested weighs more than three times that.
EPA Pulls Scope 3 Emissions Guidance: What It Means for Automakers and Car Buyers
The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly edited Scope 3 emissions out of its corporate climate...
BYD’s Pakistan Factory Missed Its Deadline Again — And BYD Isn’t The One Who Should Be Sweating
A car factory in the Sindh desert just blew through another deadline. On its own,...
Half a Million Ford Edges May Be Drowning Their Own Engines — And Technically, No One’s Investigating Yet
Ford’s Edge has been dead since 2024. No factory builds it, no dealer orders one,...
Hyundai Just Settled Its Strike. Its Next New Hire Doesn’t Need a Raise, a Union Card, or a Retirement Age.
Hyundai Motor and its union reached a tentative agreement this week to end the company’s...
Sub-$20,000 Used Cars Are Basically an Endangered Species — Only 1 in 9 Three-Year-Olds Survives
A three-year-old Camry saved you $8,033 in 2019. It saves you $4,171 now. The real story in the iSeeCars data…
Hyundai’s First Full Strike in 10 Years Isn’t About Pay. It’s About a Law That Made Walking Out Basically Free.
Hyundai Motor’s assembly lines in Ulsan will sit completely still for eight hours this Friday....
Musk Says Tesla Builds America’s Most American Car. His Own Truck Skipped the Test
Every new car sold in America wears a sticker almost nobody reads. It lists exactly...
Reynolds and Reynolds Got a Manager to Sign a 66-Month DMS Extension. The Dealers Say It Wasn’t His To Sign.
Sixty-six months. That’s not a contract. That’s a sentence. A standard Reynolds and Reynolds dealer...