EPA’s New Truck Rule Turns a Federal Felony Into a Factory Setting
Mac Spurlock ran a diesel repair shop in Wasilla, Alaska. In 2022, about thirty armed...
Manufacturing
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...
Ford Quietly Tested Its “Quality Comes First” Ads on Factory Towns Before Anyone Else Saw Them. That’s Not a Coincidence
Ford just won its first J.D. Power quality crown since 2010, and its new “Quality...
O’Reilly’s Reported $10 Billion Bid for NAPA’s Parent Isn’t Really a Merger Story. It’s a Vote of No Confidence in GPC’s Own Spinoff Plan
Genuine Parts Company spent the better part of this year building an elaborate exit ramp...
Toyota Just Pulled the Tacoma Out of Mexico, and It Buried the Real Reason in One Sentence
Toyota’s $3.6 billion press release out of San Antonio arrived with a governor, two U.S....
Rolls-Royce Just Expanded a Factory in Minnesota. It’s Not the Rolls-Royce You’re Picturing, and the Mix-Up Is the Real Story.
Skim the headline and you’ll picture Goodwood: a clean room in the English countryside where...
China’s EV Industry Just Culled 27 of Its Own Brands. The 3 Survivors Are Coming for Your Dealership.
Everyone is reading China’s EV market numbers as a story about slowing demand. It isn’t....
GM Just Spent $275 Million to Put a Gas Engine Back Into Its Cadillac EV Plant
Spring Hill, Tennessee, doesn’t get much attention outside of GM’s investor calls, but for the...
Toyota Just Reversed Its Own Tacoma Playbook, and Nobody’s Talking About the Axles
Toyota did not spend $3.6 billion in San Antonio because it rediscovered patriotism. It spent...
Toyota’s $3.6 Billion San Antonio Bet Isn’t About Jobs. It’s About Which Trucks Are Worth Building in America.
Governor Greg Abbott just announced that Toyota is spending $3.6 billion to build a second...
Kia Barely Raised 2027 Carnival Prices, and That Restraint Is the Real Story
Kia raised 2027 Carnival prices by just $100, even while eating tariff costs on its only imported minivan. That restraint,…
Thailand’s $4.1 Billion EV Push Isn’t About Electric Cars. It’s About Not Choosing Sides.
Thailand just put $4.1 billion behind electric vehicles. Read the fine print, though, and you’ll...
The Toyota-Joby Deal Isn’t About Flying Cars — It’s About Who Can Actually Build Them
Ask anyone building an electric air taxi what actually keeps their program grounded, and the...
The ‘Buy American’ and ‘Buy European’ Pitch Is Getting Harder to Believe When the Platforms Keep Coming From China
Two stories crossed the wire at roughly the same moment this week, and read together...
A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Wheel Manufacturing
This is better than any ASMR video.