Stellantis Just Sold Its Car-Sharing Business to a Company That Buys Other People’s Failures for a Living
When a company sells off a division, the buyer usually tells you more than the...
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Car Dealers Keep Falling Into The Same PPP Trap, And One Whistleblower Won’t Stop Collecting
Two auto dealer groups just wrote the federal government a combined check for $3.6 million...
Detroit’s EV Cowardice: Automakers Don’t Believe In Electric Cars, They Believe In Whoever’s In The White House
Let’s cut through the press-release language. The American auto industry did not “transition” to electric...
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...
Hyundai Now Owns All of Boston Dynamics, and the Robots Still Can’t Build a Car
Read Hyundai’s official statement on its new, complete ownership of Boston Dynamics closely enough, and...
State Farm Just Deputized Your Toyota to Snitch on You After a Crash
Somewhere in Bloomington, Illinois, State Farm’s engineers just solved a problem that has nothing to...
Thailand Just Bet $4.1 Billion It Can Out-Build the Rest of Southeast Asia on EVs
Thailand just put a number on its EV ambitions, and it’s a big one. That’s...
O’Reilly’s $10 Billion Bid for NAPA Sent Wall Street the Wrong Message. Here’s What It Actually Missed
O’Reilly’s Rumored NAPA Grab Is a Bigger Swing Than the Stock Slide Lets On Wall...
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...
Leasing vs. Buying: The Math Dealers Hope You Never Actually Do
There's no universal right answer to leasing vs buying — only the right answer for you. Here's the math dealerships…
Manual vs. Automatic: Why an Argument the Spreadsheet Already Settled Refuses to Die
By every spreadsheet metric, the automatic won years ago. So why won't the manual die? Because efficiency was never the…
The Enthusiast Car Isn’t Being Killed. It’s Being Managed Into Extinction — And That’s Worse
Nobody is going to hold a press conference to announce the death of the fun...
VW, Porsche, and Honda All Stumbled the Same Week, And It’s Not a Coincidence
The global auto industry just lived through one of its roughest stretches in recent memory,...
Japan’s Automakers Have Absorbed $28 Billion in Trump-Era Trade Costs, and the Bill Keeps Growing
The bill is already enormous, and it’s still climbing. Japan’s automakers have absorbed roughly $28...
BYD’s Chairman Says It’ll Be the World’s Biggest Automaker in Five Years. The Math Is Brutal.
BYD just stood up in front of its own investors and announced it plans to...