Ford and UAW reach tentative agreement
Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers reached on Friday a tentative agreement for a new four-year labor contract according to both the carmaker and the union. The contract covers 52,700 members...
View ArticleGM workers vote for U.S. labor contract
The United Auto Workers members voted in majority for the new four-year contract with General Motors Co., but the decision has not been ratifed as skilled trades worked voted against it according to...
View ArticleVolkswagen to pay extra taxes for carbon dioxide emissions
The scandal in which Volkswagen is involved regarding the infamous carbon dioxide emissions is putting the company in the position to pay extra taxes due to an understatement of the aforementioned...
View ArticleFrance is against Renault-Nissan merger
If you did not know who is the biggest shareholder in Renault SA, we’re telling you that it’s a country, yes, it’s France. And France is upset about the possibility of a merger between Nissan Motor Co....
View ArticleWhich luxury brand will win: Hyundai or Alfa Romeo?
If you were to choose, which luxury brand do you think is going to have bigger annual sales, the Fiat Chrysler’s Alfa Romeo or Hyundai’s new Genesis? We’re thinking that the carmaker which has not...
View ArticleHydrogen fuel-cell cars remain compliance vehicles
In case you aren’t familiar with what “compliance cars” stand for, back in 2012, the California Air Resource Board insisted on the most popular six carmakers in the state to produce zero-emission...
View ArticleVolkswagen’s new attempt to please dissatisfied customers & employees
Volkswagen AG decided yesterday to please the U.S. customers and German union leaders who were not satisfied with the company’s response to the rigging emissions scandal by offering a credit worth...
View ArticleFrance will lower stake in Renault to 15%
France has decided to reduce the stake it has in the French carmaker Renault from 19.7% to 15% and expressed its wish for the governance structure of the Renault-Nissan alliance to stay the same. The...
View ArticleWhat you need to know before you buy a Tesla
If you ever thought of going electric and took into consideration buying a car from Tesla, here is what you need to know before becoming a Tesla motorist. Your garage must have a NEMA 14-50 outlet...
View ArticleToyota invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence research
Toyota Motor Corp. has announced that it will invest $1 billion into creating a new company – Toyota Research Institute – set to focus on research into artificial intelligence and robotics. It was only...
View ArticleWhy did the GM skilled-trades workers reject the UAW labor contract?
Due to a negative feedback from General Motors’ skilled-trades workers, UAW leaders had to go on location to different GM plants and see why they are against the ratification even if the majority of...
View ArticleJaguar Land Rover plans to cut costs by $6.8 billion
Jaguar Land Rover has launched a project that would cut costs of $6.8 billion and that would build 1 million cars every year through 2020, according to the British newspaper Sunday Times. The secret...
View ArticleReport: E.U. gives deadline to VW for CO2 emissions disclosure
European regulators have given the Volkswagen Group a deadline of 10 days when the carmaker can offer any additional information regarding the CO2 emissions irregularities that were found in a massive...
View ArticleAlfa Romeo’s projections for China withdrawn by Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne’s plans to increase sales for the Alfa Romeo and Maserati carmakers are turning out to be weaker than predicted. The CEO of Chrysler stated last week that the growth plans for Alfa...
View ArticleFord will spend $9 billion on its factories
The tentative agreement between Ford Motors and the UAW shows a commitment worth $9 billion from Ford to its U.S. plants that will also create or keep 8,500 jobs over the following four years due to...
View ArticleVolvo FMX Truck gets remotely controlled by 4-year-old girl in obstacles test...
When you think of a 4-year-old controlling from afar a huge truck, you’d imagine a simple video that would show off Volvo’s FMX Truck. Well, the guys from Volvo had something else in mind when they...
View ArticleWould you make your own vintage road-legal Alfa Romeo Racer? [VIDEO]
If you are a vintage car lover, having one that can race down a track seems like an auto dream. Amateur racing driver Bradley Price turned it into reality. Bradley Price took his 1975 Alfa Romeo...
View Article2016 Dodge Viper ACR mocks Corvette in Star Wars ad [VIDEO]
If you weren’t a Star Wars fan or a Dodge lover, you might just become one after watching this video. The spot was created around the newest movie in the saga, The Force Awakens, and it seems to make...
View ArticleTractor speeds up on Autobahn with more than 62mph [VIDEO]
The Autobahn is usually famous for the speed cars reach and for being a paradise for supercars pulling off 180mph by far. And while you might expect people riding on the Autobahn to have onboard...
View ArticleLyft will raise $1 billion to compete with Uber
The latest ride-hailing app on the U.S. market, Lyft, will raise around $1 billion in a Series F founding round a few weeks after Uber had announced it would raise a double sum reaching $2.1 billion....
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