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...
Manufacturing
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,…
Pony.ai Promised Europe More Robotaxis Than It’s Ever Built. Who Owns the Ones That Don’t Exist Yet?
Somewhere inside a routine filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sits a sentence...
Tesla’s Cybercab Has No Steering Wheel and No Backup Plan — Which Is Why Employees Ride First, Not You
Tesla has reportedly told employees to be ready for the first public-road rides in the...
Trump’s 50% Canada Car Tariff Got a Three-Day Pause. The Fine Print Shows It Was Built to Tax Detroit’s Own Factories
For three days this week, Washington and Ottawa get to act like a trade crisis...
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....
A Robot Didn’t Kill This Stellantis Mechanic. A Bypass Key Did, and OSHA Predicted It Decades Ago.
Nobody has ever been crushed by an industrial robot that was doing exactly what its...
China’s EV Price War Got So Brutal, Automakers Are Bribing You With Karaoke Machines Now
BYD wants to sell you a car with a karaoke machine wired into the dashboard....
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...
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...
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...