It’s been harder for anyone to find a good deal on the new car market. With the continued supply-chain struggles, limited inventory, and booming customer interest, there aren’t many models that dealers are not adding a little extra to these days (beyond specialty sports cars and exotic whips). You’ll even find it challenging to find […]
U.S. Moves to Mandate Safer Car Doors After Entrapment Reports
American auto safety regulators are preparing the ground for a rule that will affect car doors for years to come. The move comes after several tragic cases when people were unable to exit a vehicle due to a flush, electrified handle common to Teslas and some other manufacturers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed […]
Thailand Eyes $714 Million EV Program to Revitalize Auto Sector
Thailand is set to make a major move to speed up the use of electric vehicles as part of its proposed 24 billion baht ($714 million) program to revive its moribund motorcar sector. The initiative would jump start replacement of thousands of high emission vehicles with cleaner electric vehicles and help support one of the […]
Senate Bill on Chinese Vehicles Creates Unexpected Hurdle for Mercedes-Benz
It is a transitional moment for global automakers as technologies, national security and international trade start getting merged together more tightly. Vehicles aren’t just tools for moving people anymore; they are essentially sophisticated pieces of technology with a bunch of cameras, sensors, operating systems, connected with the outside world and able to share data. And […]
Ford Recalls Nearly 750,000 Vehicles: What Owners Need to Know
In this day and age vehicles are filled with advanced technological equipment to improve comfort, efficiency and overall safety. In addition, to these changes, major automakers sometimes make errors, and the products are shipped to dealerships. If the malfunction presents the possibility of serious harm to many hundreds of thousands of automobile owners, manufacturers would […]
UN Adopts First Global Rules for Autonomous Vehicles
The automotive industry just reached a massive milestone. On June 24, the United Nations passed the world’s first international regulatory guidelines on fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). That means a universal safety standard now exists that will help drive the international testing and adoption of self-driving technology, moving past the confusing patchwork of country-specific rules that […]
Arizona’s Desert Junkyard: 10,000 Classic Cars Waiting for Rescue
No one can truly call themselves a car person without at least a sentimental appreciation for the classic junkyard. Not only is a junkyard a final resting place for outdated vehicles but it’s a museum to every dented panel, faded decal, and paint that has weathered through the ages. However if there’s one thing we […]
California Auto Sales Face Potential Halt Over New Privacy Law
An epic battle looms between the titans of the auto industry and the Golden State of California, heading toward a June 30 deadline that could shutter the sale of new and used cars in the nation’s No. 1 car market on July 1. At the crux of the conflict: a new state privacy measure ostensibly […]
Waymo’s Recall Reveals the Bumpy Road to a Driverless Future
Gleaming white Jaguar I Pace vehicles, packed with an almost scary array of sensors and sensors, cruise through city streets like visions from the future, but utterly driverless. For a long time, the world looked toward Waymo, the self-driving division of Google, as our beacon toward a future that’s free of human pilots. But events […]
New Car Markups: 12 Models Selling Well Above MSRP
The new vehicle market remains an abnormal environment. MSRPs are higher than ever before and the price of the average new car sale continues to far outpace its Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). While several manufacturers and dealerships have worked to keep prices low enough to stay competitive, many of the popular new vehicles on […]