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…
Trucks
Ford’s 17-Truck Recall, Diesel Past $6, and What Else Moved
Our automotive news roundup for the last 24 hours: three more Ford recalls, a Daimler repair being done a third…
Ford Recalls 223,472 F-150s Over Fuel Tanks That Can Fall Off. Five Model Years Went By First.
Ford is recalling 223,472 F-150s because the fuel tank may be improperly secured and can leak or detach while driving.…
Dallas Turned Its Garbage Trucks Into A Surveillance Fleet, And The Real Trick Was Doing It For Almost Nothing
Dallas didn’t buy a single new vehicle to build one of the more sweeping property-surveillance...
Ford’s Best-Selling Truck Just Had Its Worst Month in Four Years — Because Ford Wouldn’t Sell It
Ford Ranger was Australia’s best-selling new vehicle for three straight years, and this year opened...
Werner Trucking’s 1,400-Veteran Pledge to the White House Isn’t Even Its Biggest — That Was 2018
Werner Enterprises stood next to representatives of the White House on July 30 and pledged...
The Feds Just Shut Down 110 Truck Driving Schools Overnight — One Taught Class Inside a School Bus Crammed in a Trailer
Somewhere in America over the past few weeks, a federal inspector walked into what a...
Texas Busted an Alleged $12 Million Oil Theft Ring — But the 60 Seized Trucks Tell the Real Story
When the Texas Department of Public Safety stood up at a podium in Midland and...
GM’s Fix for Its Self-Destructing V-8 Was Basically an Oil Change. Nearly 7,000 Owners Say That Didn’t Work.
General Motors already recalled 597,571 trucks and SUVs to fix a defect that can cause...
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...
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,…
A Nearly Free Recall Just Tanked Stellantis Stock 4% — Its Own Paperwork Explains Why
Wall Street didn’t punish Stellantis this week for a broken camera. It punished the company...
Toyota’s Tacoma TRD Off-Road Got the Bargain Shocks — And 48,000 Owners Are Now Finding Out Why
Toyota just told 48,000 Tacoma owners that the shocks on their truck can rot from...
Washington Yanked 24,000 Truckers Off the Road and Called It a Safety Win. Then It Started Begging Veterans to Replace Them.
Every trucker pulled off the road for a safety violation has to be replaced by...
IIHS Releases Zero Driver Death List. Here’s Who’s Paying for It.
Six vehicles just posted a perfect record in the most sobering scorecard in the auto...