Belvidere Is Getting Its Cherokee Back. It’s Also Becoming Stellantis’s Guinea Pig For a Platform That Doesn’t Exist Yet
Stellantis wants Belvidere to feel like a win. On Thursday, the company said it’s raising...
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Hyundai Cut Crash Test Review Time By 90 Percent. That’s Not Even Close to the Interesting Part.
Hyundai's AI numbers are big. The real story is a 2019 data infrastructure decision that most competitors haven't made yet…
Stellantis Just Threw a Supplier Town Hall in Mexico. After a $26 Billion Loss, You’d Want to Lock Down Your Lifeline Too.
Somewhere in the fine print of Stellantis’s 2026 Mexico Supplier Town Hall — between the...
GM Took $500 Million to Electrify This Plant. It’s Laying Off 350 Workers to Build a Gas Cadillac Instead
Three hundred fifty people at General Motors’ Lansing Grand River complex are being laid off...
Mexico’s Auto Parts Industry Just Set a Record — Thanks to a Tariff Loophole Shaped Like a Wiring Harness
Mexico auto parts production just had its best stretch in years. Its car factories did...
GM Just Invented a New Way to Owe Money for Parts It Hasn’t Bought Yet — And Wall Street Won’t See the Bill for Years
General Motors did not spend the last week protecting itself against a shortage of any...
Hiroshi Okuda’s Real Legacy Isn’t the Prius. It’s Teaching Toyota to Build Where It Sells
Hiroshi Okuda died this week at 93, and most tributes will lead with the Prius....
Florida’s Flying-Car Test Track Is the Headline. The Robotaxis Already on I-95 Are the Real Story
Florida’s governor stood in front of a hangar in Auburndale this week and talked about...
Japan’s Earthquake Barely Touched Honda’s Closest Factory. A Plant 600 Miles Away Still Can’t Build A Civic
Honda’s factory in Ozu, Kumamoto, sits close enough to the epicenter of Japan’s July 28...
Ford Named Its Cheap Electric Truck Fathom. The Real Story Is What Ford Had to Break to Build It
Ford gave its cheapest electric vehicle in company history a name this week: Fathom. A...
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...
Mercedes’ Next EVs Are Being Built From Scrapped Cars. The Real Reason Has Nothing To Do With Saving The Planet
Somewhere in Norway, an aluminum smelter running mostly on hydroelectric power is melting down old...
Ford Recalls 86,543 Mustang Mach-Es Because Its Factory Got Faster Than the Glue Could Handle
Ford wants owners to read this as a story about a rear window molding that...
Jeep Recalled 641 Wranglers Over Cracking Steel Wheels — Which Defeats the Entire Point of Steel Wheels
Jeep wants this to read as a story about 641 wheels. It isn’t. It’s a...
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,...