DETROIT — President Donald Trump is headed to Michigan later this week to give a speech at a Dana Inc. drivetrain parts plant, one day after he’s slated to sign a new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico to replace NAFTA. Trump is expected to deliver the speech Thursday at Dana’s facility in Warren, Mich.,
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By Amy Thompson Posted on January 26, 2020 Elon Musk has big plans for Mars and it’s no secret that the SpaceX founder and CEO envisions a future where humans inhabit more than one planet, but how do we get there? In a series of tweets, Musk outlined a plan to build a city on
The Volkswagen Tiguan may be a compact SUV but the same thing can’t be said about its namesake with the Allspace moniker. This thing is big in room, as I recently discovered during a week-long test with the vehicle just prior to the turn of the year. Now before we continue, we’ll remind you that
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is mulling to use the threat of high tariffs to raise pressure on the European Union, the United States and other nations to strike trade deals with Britain, The Times newspaper reported on Saturday. Johnson and his cabinet ministers discussed using tariffs as “leverage” in an effort to
The first Genesis crossover is finally on the way, and the upstart brand is using the new model not just to ignite sales after struggling to build a dealer body with three sedans. It’s also leveraging the Super Bowl, celebrity couple John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, a new logo and the Young Luxury slogan to
If there’s one car that perhaps never quite seemed to fit the tuner culture that surrounds “The Fast and the Furious,” it was probably the Nissan Maxima driven by the character Vince, Dominic Toretto’s right-hand man. Like any decision involving a movie, there’s an interesting story behind the car. Craig Lieberman is back yet again
The 2020 Mercedes-Benz S-Class lineup is one of the broadest of any vehicle, from its three body styles to its nine trims and powertrain options. We give it 8 out of 10 as such, and feel compelled to not that its warranty coverage is competitive, but not game-changing. The “entry level” S450 starts at $95,245
Since the Dodge Charger and Challenger were updated for the 2015 model year, FCA started adding small plastic guards to the low-hanging front splitters of the muscle car duo. Some five years later, these splitter guards have taken on a life of their own and are now a fiercely debated topic within the Dodge community,
Tom Kane, service director at Universal Nissan in Orlando, is on a mission to boost customer retention and profits by focusing on an area many other dealers often ignore: older vehicles whose warranties have expired and whose drivers are looking to pay less for maintenance and repairs. In 2017, Universal rolled out its Legends program
Volvo is synonymous with safety. Thus it’s no surprise that the brand is taking the statistically safe choice of giving away $1 million worth of cars should a safety occur during Super Bowl LIV. As defined by the National Football League, a safety occurs “if the offense commits a foul in its own end zone
PARIS — Renault’s engineering boss will meet his counterpart at Nissan in Japan this week, two sources close to Renault said, as the automakers seek to revive projects crucial to an alliance left reeling by the Carlos Ghosn affair. According to the sources, Renault’s Gilles Le Borgne, who was hired on Jan. 6 from rival
Not a single C8 Corvette will be sold for its fuel economy, but as it turns out, the mpg numbers it returns aren’t actually all that bad. As we just learned from Corvette Chief Engineer Ed Piatek at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, the C8 has been EPA certified at 15/27 mpg city/highway. The
DETROIT — General Motors will build the Cruise Origin at its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant starting in late 2022, AutoForecast Solutions told Automotive News. The self-driving, ride-hailing shuttle revealed in San Francisco this week joins a roster of electric vehicles slated for production at the plant. GM declined to comment, but the automaker released a media
The Tesla Cybertruck prototype was spotted around Los Angeles it was being driven around by none other than Elon Musk and Jay Leno. Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck in November of last year and the vehicle has been spotted a few times on public roads since. Most famously, Elon Musk was spotted driving the electric pickup
The Jaguar I-Pace was the first serious electric rival to the Tesla Model X, but in the real world, is it really all that it’s cracked up to be? To find out, Harry Metcalfe put one to the test for a day’s worth of driving in the UK. Metcalfe started his journey with the battery
PARIS — PSA Group said it will repatriate expatriate staff and their families from the Wuhan area in China, which is at the center of an outbreak of coronavirus. The maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars said that 38 people would be evacuated and that the initiative will be executed in full collaboration with the
The 1980s were a time of excess, and brought with them the rise of BMW and Mercedes-Benz as the cars of choice to project success. It should come as no surprise, then, that German automakers and excess overlapped more than once. This V-16-powered 1987 BMW 750iL is one of the best examples of the intersection
Though down a couple of trim options and a few hundred dollars more expensive this year, the 2020 Honda Ridgeline is better equipped than ever, but still pricey at the top end. (Read more about how we rate cars.) For 2020, the Ridgeline drops the base RT and mid-tier RTL-T trims, leaving just four: Sport,
Dramatic dashcam footage has emerged showing the moment a man driving a GMC Sierra pickup truck triggered a collision in the U.S. and attempted to flee the scene. The video kicks off showing a white Nissan Sentra changing into the second left-most lane of the highway. Shortly after making the lane change, a black SUV
Fears surrounding the fast-spreading coronavirus prompted automakers and suppliers last week to restrict business travel in and out of China, where the key auto-industry city of Wuhan was identified as the illness’ epicenter. In an effort to contain the outbreak, which had been blamed for 41 deaths as of late Friday, Jan. 24, Chinese officials have
The Rubicon Recon is back. The new trim level is now available on the 2020 Jeep Wrangler, donning red and black accents and serious off-road capability. Jeep offered the Rubicon Recon on the previous JK Wrangler, but this is the first time it has appeared on the new-generation JL model. The trim gets standard LED
Editor’s note: This story is part of a special section on the 100th anniversary of Mazda to be published in the Jan. 27 print edition of Automotive News. In the mid-1960s, Japanese goods such as motorcycles, cameras, watches and consumer electronics were starting to shed their post-World War II era image for shoddy quality. American
Someone test driving a Porsche Taycan in the Netherlands decided to push the new EV to the limit on public roads, and the police clocked the young man at 133 miles per hour (214 kilometers per hour) in a 62-mph (100-kph) zone. Let’s hope he had fun because that was probably his last time behind
A funny thing happened on the way to drive the Porsche Speedster. That thing is a 1953 Porsche 356 America Roadster, the 17th of 17 ever built, a distant predecessor of the 2019 Speedster. We’ll get to the Lilliputian Porker in a moment, but first I should put my cards on the table regarding the
Porsche emphasizes speed — and its German heritage — in its first Super Bowl ad appearance since 1997. The sports car brand released on Friday an extended cut of the spot, which will run in the game as a 60-second ad in the first quarter.The ad, called “The Heist” by Cramer-Krasselt, features a racing scene
By Joey Klender Posted on January 24, 2020 Tesla’s Autonomy Day in April 2019 gave supporters of the company a look into Elon Musk’s vision of a fully-autonomous future. The event featured the company’s strategies for the future as it prepares for a full embrace into its plans for a Full Self-Driving suite that will
Almost every luxury car brand has a big plug-in hybrid SUV on offer, and Land Rover is no exception. PHEV versions of both the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport are available, and in this instance, we’ll put the spotlight on the latter. Joining the HSE, HSE Dynamic, HST and Autobiography Dynamic family in the
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles filed a motion Friday to dismiss General Motors’ racketeering lawsuit against the company. In a sweeping suit filed in November, GM claims that its smaller rival secured an unfair advantage in labor costs by bribing UAW officials during key contract negotiations covering wages and benefits. The suit alleges that Sergio Marchionne, the
The much-awaited Le Mans Hypercar class is going to get some company from a new class that will be able to race worldwide. On Friday, America’s International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), which sanctions the 24 Hours of Le Mans, announced the new Le Mans Daytona hybrid class (LMDh)
The 2020 BMW X2 trades utility for styling compared to the related X1. The 2020 BMW X2 is the most style-oriented bite-size luxury-brand SUV, but it’s largely in a class of one. There’s a reason you don’t see many on the road: paying more for less doesn’t have wide appeal. For those willing to trade
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