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Honda Will Invest $2.75B in GM’s Cruise Autonomous-Vehicle Unit
Honda announced that it will be investing $2.75 billion in GM Cruise, GM's self-driving car unit. This investment represents a 5.7% stake in the unit. The company will immediately...
Mazda is Bringing Back the Rotary Engine
Mazda Motor Corp. is bringing back the rotary engine by 2030! Mazda was the first automaker to market rotary engines in 1967 in the Cosmo Sport/Mazda S110. It also happened to be...
Goodbye, NAFTA. Hello NAFTA 2.0 (USMCA)
There's a new version of NAFTA on the way. It's not exaggeration to say that the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, significantly and irreversibly altered the manufacturing...
Ford Sedan Advertising a Thing of the Past
Ford sedan sales may further slow. The company decided to withdraw from the U.S. sedan market as the current generations of the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, and Taurus reach the end of...
Nissan Will Take a Controlling Stake in Mitsubishi
The Japanese auto industry is about to consolidate, and quickly. In a joint news conference, Nissan (and Renault) CEO Carlos Ghosn and Mitsubishi Motors CEO Osamu Masuko announced...
GM and Lyft Will Partner to Test Self-Driving Taxis
Back in January, GM announced that it had invested $500 million in ride-sharing provider Lyft (you know, the "generic Uber") to expedite the rollout of personal mobility services....
Takata Airbag Recall Expands Dramatically
Today, the NHTSA ordered that the Takata airbag recall expand from approximately 29 million vehicles to add another 35 to 40 million more. There are so many vehicles now included...
Volkswagen Reaches Tentative Settlement on Diesel Emissions Cheating
Hoping to put an extremely ugly chapter of its history in its smoke-filled rear view mirror, Volkswagen announced today that it had reached a tentative agreement with U.S....
NAIAS 2015 Day One Recap
Day one of the 2015 North American International Auto Show (or NAIAS, or the Detroit Auto Show) is behind us, and we've racked up a significant number of steps on our FitBit...
NY Auto Show: 2015 Jeep Renegade
Mercedes-Benz (CLA), Lincoln (MKC) and Audi (A3) aren't the only automakers searching for additional sales volume by moving downmarket to smaller vehicles that are intended to...