Your Engine Was Designed Around an Oil America Barely Makes. Now the Bill Is Due.
Costco is rationing motor oil and charging $5.80 a quart, but the cause is not crude prices. It is API…
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The 3D-Printing Revolution in Cars Already Happened. It’s in the Tool Crib, Not on the Car.
A new large-format printer aimed at car factories has exactly the same build volume as the one before it, and…
Stellantis Is Reportedly Spending €1 Billion in France to Do Work Its Suppliers Already Do
The headline is a new van at Hordain. The detail worth reading is that part of the money reportedly brings…
Four LLCs, One Factory: Inside an Auto Supplier’s $620,000 Discrimination Settlement
A federal jury in Nashville never got to hear this case, and that absence is...
A Chinese Supplier Just Opened a Georgia Factory to Build the Exact Tech Washington Is Trying to Ban
A ribbon-cutting in Suwanee, Georgia doesn’t usually make national news. But the one held by...
Honda’s $9.4 Billion Plan To Fight Cheap Chinese EVs Involves Buying More Parts From China
Honda wants to save $9.4 billion by 2030, and it told suppliers this spring to...
This ‘Trading Floor’ For New Cars Just Went Bankrupt. Federal Records Show It Wasn’t Even Legally Cleared To Move Its Own Inventory
Somewhere between the factory and your local dealership’s lot, thousands of brand-new cars change hands...
Nissan Says Business Is Growing — Its Own Spreadsheet Says Sales Just Crashed 16.5%
Nissan put out a press release this week with a headline built for good news:...
Tesla’s New ‘Chip Facility’ in Austin Is Bigger Than the Pentagon — Texas Says It Cost Just $50,000
Somewhere east of Austin, Tesla has filed paperwork for a semiconductor building with more floor...
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...
Advance Auto Parts’ Profit More Than Tripled. Its Actual Business Barely Grew At All.
Advance Auto Parts wants you to believe it turned a corner last quarter. Net income...
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...
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...
BMW Figured Out How To Turn Scrap Steel Into New Cars. Europe’s New Recycling Law Doesn’t Even Ask For That
BMW put out a number this week that sounds like a win: 51 percent. That’s...