In the span of my time so far on this planet, I’ve seen a lot of “sporty” car models come and go. Few have lasted for more than a couple of product generations and they have often evolved into something far different than the original design brief as…

In an American automotive market that finally peaked and started to decline in 2017, there was still some good news in certain segments, including pickup trucks and small crossover utilities. Against the backdrop of the collapsing sales of smaller…

It's no secret that the end-game for ride-hailing firms like Uber, Lyft and Didi Chuxing is to replace tens of thousands of human drivers with autonomous vehicles. In the past year, Uber has launched its own autonomous vehicle development program,…

In the coming decade as vehicles get more electric, more connected and more automated than ever before, we are also going to see some fundamental changes in the electronic architecture of vehicles. With more data being generated by sensors, exported…

There is increasingly a consensus that electric propulsion will eventually overtake internal combustion in transportation. What is less agreed upon is the timing. One of the brands that has veered to a more aggressive timeline recently is Jaguar and…

There’s no question that sedans are a shrinking segment of the U.S. car market. That doesn’t mean that every automaker is giving on a vehicle type that still accounts for almost 18% of sales the way that Fiat Chrysler and Ford have. For now at least,…

It’s been almost 10 years since Nissan began U.S. deliveries of the Leaf, its first mass-produced mainstream electric vehicle. While the Leaf was the best selling EV in the world until the Tesla TSLA Model 3 arrived, it never quite lived up to the…

A decade ago, the Mercedes-Benz launched its first ever hybrid electric vehicle in the form of the midsize ML450 SUV. Few of those ML450 hybrids were ever built and it quietly faded away after just a few years on the market. These days, the midsize…

It seems like a lifetime ago that I first took a stab at developing control algorithms for a new traction control system on a heated asphalt strip near the arctic circle in northern Sweden. The specific piece I was working on didn’t have a separate…

Ford's factory racing program for the third-generation GT wound to a close last October at the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. However, Multimatic is still building road-going GTs until at least 2022. To keep things interesting, Ford continues to…