For the first time in 50 years, there will be two distinct Shelby Mustang models available for sale by the end of 2019. While the new supercharged GT500 will arrive this fall, Ford is keeping the GT350 in the lineup with some fresh updates designed…

Last summer, Ford acquired a small company in Saline, Mich. that specializes in high-end simulation work for robotics. Given that Ford is in the process of developing highly automated vehicles (HAV) that it hopes to start deploying sometime next…

Nissan was already facing some pretty serious challenges before 2020 even officially kicked off. Sales both globally and in North America for its three brands (Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun) where off 9% and 10% respectively. It’s relationship with…

In April 2018, Ford made some big news with the announcement that it was going to discontinue all of its traditional car models in North America except for the Mustang. Going forward, it would instead focus (no pun intended) on utility vehicles and…

Ford made a surprise announcement this week of a further reorganization of its business as the automaker prepares for the long-term transition to automated mobility services. All of the various groups within Ford that are working on the development…

I fully support the disruption that ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft have been trying to bring to the taxi business. Taxi fleets, while often essential to getting around in busy urban areas, also often have provided terrible service at high…

Despite the fact that Ford has been using the Super Duty brand in various incarnations for nearly 60 years, the current usage for heavy duty full-size pickup trucks dates back less than 20 years. In the late-1990s, Ford first began establishing a…

Most of the world’s leading automotive brands have dabbled in producing sports cars at some point in their history. However, aside from some relatively low volume players, none of these cars have ever been core to the business of these brands. They…

Back in mid-2017, Volkswagen announced that it would begin to deploy vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications across its lineup from 2019, but the company has been conspicuously silent about the topic since then. The launch of the new…

A recent article on Gas2.org, takes BMW to task for seemingly shifting the focus of its i division away from electric cars to autonomous vehicles. In fact, taking a look back nearly a decade to the origins of what was then called Project i, indicates…