At the recent Fiat Chrysler capital markets day, the Dodge and Chrysler brands were notable for the lack of any reference in the 5 year plan. Just because they weren't mentioned, it doesn't mean that at least Dodge has been completely forgotten . For…

When I was a budding young car geek back in the late 1970s, the first car magazine I ever bought was a copy of Road & Track with the Ferrari 308 GTS on the cover. This was more than two years before anyone ever heard of Magnum P.I. In those days…

Nearly three months after the 2020 Ford Explorer started shipping out to dealers, the new hybrid version has finally be signed off by the EPA. While the first application of Ford's new modular hybrid system will be the most efficient Explorer to…

As an analyst, writer and podcaster I'm in the incredibly fortunate position of being able to drive many different kinds of vehicles every year. I drove more than 50 different vehicles in 2017, living with most of them for a full week. About a dozen…

This morning in Detroit, Honda revealed the all-new 10th-generation Accord sedan and while pretty much everything about it looks like a good upgrade from the outgoing model, little was truly surprising. There was however one little detail in senior…

Over the past several weeks, the legendary descriptor, “arsenal of democracy” has been frequently invoked as America and the world battle to contain the impact of a coronavirus pandemic. Among other industries, automakers were quick to commit their…

Back in 2010, when Tesla was still delivering a few dozen Roadsters a month, Carlos Ghosn was a free man and CEO of Nissan and Renault. On the verge of launching the one of the first modern, mainstream electric cars, the Leaf, he projected that…

A decade ago, in the wake of General Motors’ bankruptcy reorganization, the Hummer brand represented everything that many people considered was wrong with the automaker leading up to its collapse. Hummers were big, heavy, gas guzzling monsters in an…

A report in the Financial Times today claims that the consumer electronics giant Apple is negotiating to either make an equity investment or an outright takeover of the U.K.'s McLaren Technology Group. McLaren is the manufacturer of a range of…

One of the core beliefs of almost everyone promoting automated vehicles is that they will be the panacea that cures the scourge of road fatalities. That will probably be true – eventually. But we don’t actually have any real evidence of that just…