China’s #1 Bestselling Car Just Failed Its Own Safety Audit — And That’s Not Even the Scary Part
Somewhere in a Chinese testing facility, a government inspector measured the wheelbase on a Geely...
Manufacturing
Rivian Loses Finance Chief As R2 Ramp And Georgia Plant Loom
Claire McDonough is leaving Rivian on October 30. That’s the headline, and it’s the least...
China’s Largest Headlight Supplier Fired 107 New Grads in Weeks — But Still Found Cash for a Dividend
Xingyu Automotive Lighting Systems makes the adaptive LED headlights that bend light around oncoming traffic...
Nissan Recalled 149 Altimas Over Airbags Bolted On With Truck Hardware
Somewhere on Nissan’s assembly line in Canton, Mississippi, a parts runner grabbed the wrong bin....
VW Plant Closures Blocked by a 1960 Law, Not Boardroom Politics
Volkswagen’s supervisory board meets in Wolfsburg on September 4 with three competing blueprints for the...
Porsche Sold Its Own Consulting Arm, Then Paid Four Times as Much to Rent It Back
Porsche spent three decades building a consulting firm from scratch, spent 2023 buying out the...
VW’s Layoffs Could Hit 140,000. The Family That Controls the Company Already Wrote Off the Loss and Went Shopping for Drones
Volkswagen wants the headline to be about jobs. On August 24, labor representatives told employees...
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...
Ford’s New Safety Chief Used to Regulate Ford. That’s Exactly the Point.
Ford is simultaneously the most recalled automaker in America and, per J.D. Power, one of its best-built. Hiring a 13-year…
China Isn’t Sneaking Into Europe’s Car Factories — Stellantis And Nissan Are Handing Over The Keys
Picture an Opel dealer in Zaragoza a couple of years from now, selling a compact...
Honda’s Threat to Skip a New Factory Isn’t About Honda. It’s About a Trade Deal Stuck in Limbo
When a Honda executive stands in front of reporters in Washington and says the company...
Hyundai May Push Its Georgia Factory to 800,000 Cars a Year — Here’s the Real Math
Announced factory capacity is one of the softest numbers in this business. It’s a plan,...
Volkswagen Wants an American Pickup Truck by 2030 – and Might Need Ford to Dodge a Tariff It Basically Invented
Volkswagen wants to sell you a pickup truck by 2030. Set that fact aside for...
The White House’s Auto Manufacturing Victory Lap Included a Company That Doesn’t Make Cars
The White House is crediting tariffs for Ford's decision to stop importing the Lincoln Nautilus from China. The tariffs are…
Toyota Owes 48,280 Tacoma Owners New Shocks. Somebody Has To Build 193,120 Of Them First
The corrosion fix is the easy part of Toyota’s Tacoma shock absorber recall. Building 193,120 remote-reservoir Bilstein dampers is not,…