Automotive News reporter Larry Vellequette discovered an agenda for tomorrow’s Fiat Chrysler Automobiles presentation that leaves out Fiat and Chrysler. The list of presentations shows Jeep and Ram on the American side, along with Alfa Romeo and Maserati on the Italian side — but Chrysler and Fiat will probably be locked […]
FCA is set to announce its next five-year plan (or four-year plan, depending on the source) tomorrow — but Bloomberg’s Tommaso Ebhardt has been talking about what’s in it today, over the radio and in print. In essence, the plan is mainly more of the same — Chrysler being restricted to […]
When Daimler bought Chrysler, for the price of a name change, the joke instantly because “DaimlerChrysler is pronounced ‘Daimler’ — the ‘chrysler’ is silent.” While there were engineers who respected their Chrysler counterparts, who often did more (or the same) with much less, leadership was quickly and clearly concentrated in […]
Apple recently announced that it was outfitting Volkswagen vans with autonomous driving gear, to shuttle employees around their campus, in what seems to be a timid first test of Apple self-driving gear. There are two big questions here… Why Volkswagen? Why such a small test? To start with the second […]
American automakers are dropping their traditional cars, and import companies are picking up the sales that are being left on the table — possibly led by Toyota. Dodge and Chrysler started the trend by dropping their compact and midsize cars (their large cars will continue). Then GM announced it was […]
On Wednesday, Ford announced a new, more aggressive cost-cutting plan that will have a significant impact on its U.S. product lineup. 110 years after it began production of the first mass-market automobile, the Model T, Ford is exiting the mainstream passenger car market in the U.S. and Canada. In the […]
Thanks to mis-steps on the part of Henrik Fisker, Elon Musk’s Tesla was the first major modern electric-car maker — but were they the most important? It seems unlikely. Fisker was close to making electric cars before Tesla, but ran out of cash; Tesla has yet to turn an annual […]
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (paid subscription required), Ford and General Motors are planning to kill off some well-known models in the near future. Ford, which has already moved production of the Focus to to its plant in Hermosillo, Mexico, has announced that it will build […]
Double-digit gains reported by FCA and General Motors added nearly two percentage points to the Detroit automakers’ share of the U.S. light vehicle market. GM delivered the largest increase of any major car company with total sales up 16%, followed closely by FCA’s Jeep-fueled 14% growth. Ford sales rose about […]
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