If you’re in the market for a cheap Ferrari and don’t mind a little water damage, you might want to head to London. Earlier this week, a water main broke and flooded the A406 with approximately 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) of water. While that doesn’t sound like much, a number of cars got stuck including
After spending billions of dollars and years of time chasing the dream of autonomous vehicles, the auto industry is beginning to realize that — while there have been some excellent technological developments along the way — true Level 5 and even unsupervised Level 4 autonomy are still well into the future. Some executives in the
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. late Thursday acknowledged the Mexican state of Chihuahua’s 50 percent cap on employees in manufacturing facilities, spurred by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, is unsustainable and could eventually disrupt U.S. light-vehicle production. The U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Ford could shutter American plants as soon as next week if restrictions there
By Eric Ralph Posted on July 10, 2020 SpaceX’s fifth full-scale Starship prototype could become the first to take flight just a week or so from now if a Raptor engine test goes as planned early next week. Known as Starship serial number 5 (SN5), SpaceX teams are currently in the process of completing the
Ford Motor Co.’s top executive has pushed back against some employees calling for the top seller of vehicles to U.S. police departments to exit the business. CEO Jim Hackett sent a more than 600-word letter to senior staff in response to messages he’s received both from within and outside Ford’s ranks to reconsider producing police
British Gas today announces that is has ordered 1,000 new all-electric Vivaro-e vans from Vauxhall – the largest commercial BEV (battery electric vehicle) order in the UK to date. The BEVs will arrive over the next 12 months and be rolled out nationwide across the British Gas engineer workforce – these new vans add to
If we don’t count the Regal, which is available in the TourX, Sportback, GS and Avenir grades, Buick’s lineup consists solely of high-riding vehicles, and sitting at the low end is the Encore. A subcompact crossover based on the same platform as the Chevrolet Trax, it’s offered in four trim levels with an MSRP of
Bernhard Maier, CEO of Volkswagen Group’s Skoda brand, will leave his post after nearly five years at the end of July. Maier’s successor will be elected by the board in August, Skoda said in a release on Thursday. Skoda declined to say whether Maier, who is 60, will move to another post within VW Group.
Honda’s hottest hatchback is getting a special-edition variant with even greater performance. The 2021 Honda Civic Type R Limited Edition detailed by the automaker Thursday is lighter, louder, and is just getting started. Scheduled to arrive in the United States later this year, the Limited Edition just set a lap record at Japan’s Suzuka Circuit.
Two men have been arrested by police in Florida after leading police on a high-speed chase. Authorities from Marion County observed a silver 2015 Hyundai Elantra being driven on Sunday, July 5 and following a computer check, it was determined that the vehicle was stolen. Deputy Samantha Horne as well as a Belleview Police Department
The Woodward Dream Cruise, a massive celebration of car culture that fills the main drag of Detroit’s suburbs every August, has been canceled this year. Officially, at least. But that decision is unlikely to deter many of the hot-rodders and muscle car owners from showing up and clogging the eight lanes of Woodward Avenue throughout
Watch the full episode on MotorTrend: https://bit.ly/2JnMXpy On this episode of Roadkill’s Junkyard Gold, Steve Magnante is in Shelby, North Carolina. Are we looking for GT350s and Cobras? No way! That’s because this Shelby is home to Sundell Auto Specialties, strict purveyors of General Motors muscle.Follow along with Magnante as he uncovers an explosive Malibu
A U.S. judge said she is unlikely to quickly release a Massachusetts father and son being held on charges they helped smuggle former Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan. At a Wednesday hearing in Boston, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said she was “anticipating” denying expedited bail to Michael Taylor and Peter
Tesla has hired the product manager behind Apple Pay to lead the Supercharger experience. What improvements would you like to see? Yesterday, Michael Rihani announced on LinkedIn that he left his position as senior product manager for Apple Card and Apple Cash at the Cupertino, California, company to join Tesla as the new product manager
Lucid Motors said Wednesday it plans to have 20 retail and service locations in North America by the end of 2021. The electric vehicle startup, which plans to start output of its first production vehicle late this year, already has one store at its headquarters in Newark, Calif. The company plans to open six more
LEVC ANNOUNCES FULL DETAILS OF NEW ELECTRIC VAN, VN5 Bold, distinctive design and lightweight aluminium construction Flexible fast charging and low operating costs 24/7 cross-country capability – zero emissions in the city with a long-distance range Tailored for work – three specifications available Available to order now, visit www.levc.com/VN5 for more details Ansty, 8th July
Chris Harris, like all of us, absolutely loves performance cars and in this 47-minute video, we can relive some of his finest moments behind the wheel of some cars most can only dream about. Kicking off the video is a review of the current Ford GT, painted in a bright shade of yellow and complete
FRANKFURT — Continental said the auto industry slump, triggered by the shutdown of car factories and showrooms in the wake of the corona pandemic, will be the worst seen by the sector since 1945. “The second quarter is just behind us. It will be the historically weakest quarter for the auto industry since 1945,” Continental
The C8 Corvette heads into its sophomore year with minor changes. After ushering in the era of the mid-engine Corvette for the 2020 model year, new colors and additional tech features are the only significant changes for the 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, but the sub-$60,000 price stays the same. The 2021 Corvette coupe’s base price
The 2020 Jeep Gladiator combines pickup-truck utility with the Wrangler’s unmistakable swagger and off-road prowess, for better or worse. The 2020 Gladiator costs more than its rivals and is a compromised hauler in some ways, but it can trudge off-road exceptionally well, its top comes off, and it won’t be mistaken for anything but a
A silver Chevrolet C6 Corvette was pulled over by the police in South Dakota after being clocked at 131 mph (210 km/h) in an 80 mph (128 km/h) zone. The South Dakota Highway Patrol notes that the driver of the Corvette was traveling near Watertown along I-29 when a patrol car noted the sports car
LOS ANGELES — Just as the coronavirus pandemic was plunging the U.S. auto industry into crisis and stripping millions of car sales from stunned retailers, Duke Hale was searching for American factory space to assemble Chinese crossovers for his Southern California startup. Hale, CEO of HAAH Automotive Holdings, partnered with China’s Chery Automobile Co. this
About 2,200 jobs supplying Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing plants are at risk. Trade union Unite said 40% of DHL Supply Chain staff at plants in the Midlands and North West may lose their jobs. Unite said it was “a massive, bitter blow” and called on the government to protect car manufacturers as production has declined
Lithia Motors Inc. reported Tuesday that vehicle sales increased in June compared with a year ago. The Medford, Ore., dealership group, the third-largest U.S. new-vehicle retailer, also said it acquired Smolich Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge and Smolich Nissan in Bend, Ore. The move is estimated to generate $100 million in “steady state annualized revenues,” the company said in
By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 8, 2020 During a recent event for young entrepreneurs, Panasonic CEO Kazuhiro Tsuga provided some details and insights about Tesla CEO Elon Musk. According to Tsuga, working with Musk has its challenges, but there is no denying that there is an underlying genius in the Tesla CEO’s vision. The
Plans to build a new 4×4 vehicle plant in Wales have been put on hold by the firm Ineos. The company said it follows talks with Mercedes-Benz over the acquiring of their Hambach site in Moselle, France. The Wales plant would have been built next to the current Ford engine plant at Bridgend, which is
Former Nissan Motor Co. chief Carlos Ghosn transferred more than $860,000 in October to a company managed by one of two Massachusetts men accused of helping him escape criminal charges in Japan two months later, U.S. prosecutors said. Ghosn wired the money in two installments to Promote Fox LLC, a company managed by Peter Taylor
A British motoring icon has been given a sustainable twist with the global launch of the much-anticipated Twisted EV, using a Land Rover Defender as its base vehicles. Yorkshire based Twisted have been performance-enhancing the Defender for over 20 years and have partnered with Dutch electrification specialist Plower to create a fully electric Twisted Defender.
Two months ago, BMW started accepting orders for the 330e and 330e xDrive models – aka the plug-in hybrid 3-Series with rear- and all-wheel drive, respectively. Pricing starts at $44,550 and $46,550, excluding the $995 destination and handling fee, which puts them between the $40,750 330i, with its 255 HP 2.0-liter four-pot, and $54,000 M340i,
FRANKFURT — Audi will add the Q4 Sportback e-tron, a sportier-looking version of the upcoming Q4 e-tron compact electric SUV, to its expanding range of battery-powered cars. Both models will go on sale by next summer in the automaker’s global markets as entry-level full-electric cars. Audi unveiled pictures and details of the Q4 Sportback e-tron
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