Cars are apparently a dying breed at Ford Motor Company with one distinct exception, the Mustang. While domestic Mustang sales have declined since the debut of the current generation for the car’s 50th anniversary in 2014, the expansion of its global…

Electric vehicles are already vastly more efficient at converting energy to motion than internal combustion engines. Nonetheless, as batteries remain stubbornly expensive and bulky, there are efforts to improve on that efficiency. To that end, Bosch,…

In the U.S. car market pickup trucks are where you’ll find the real money and sales volumes. For the past four decades, the number one selling vehicle overall has been the Ford F-Series and it’s on a pace for more than 850,000 sales in 2018. It’s…

Americans have been in a mad rush to trade whatever they’ve been driving for an SUV-like vehicle over the past half-decade. But just because those high-riding wagon-ish vehicles may have been the choice of the crowd, that doesn’t necessarily mean…

When Jim Hackett was brought in to replace Mark Fields as CEO just over three years ago, he was never expected to have a particularly long tenure. He was already 62 and had served and retired as CEO of Steelcase SCS before serving as interim athletic…

For most people, self-driving cars are a relatively recent concept popularized by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and videos of a blind man riding in a little pod car from Waymo. But like most overnight sensations, this is an idea that has been years, in fact,…

May you live in interesting times.
Regardless of the origins of that phrase, for those of us that cover the auto industry, it usually ends up being an apt description of our lives. Shortly before I began writing professionally about cars, another of…

Five years ago it seemed like every other software engineer in Silicon Valley was loading up on some venture capital money in hopes of striking it rich with automated driving (AD). Right about now we were all supposed to turn over the driving task to…

The surprise hit of the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit was a new sports sedan from Kia, and the fact that it had an actual name rather than some random alphanumeric string. The Stinger has since gone on the market to rave…

To racing fans around the world, Cosworth is a name that surely brings up memories of some amazing engines including the legendary Ford-Cosworth DFV V8 in Formula 1 and the derivative DFX in Indy cars. Founded in England 60 years by Mike Costin and…