John Deere to Lay Off 460 Workers in the U.S.
25 Aug 2014, 16:53 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A few days after the farming machinery and heavy equipment manufacturer announced that it will lay off hundreds of employees working at John Deere's facilities in Ankey, East Moline and Coffeyv...
Automotive-Grade Aluminum Sales to Triple by 2020 According to World's Biggest Supplier
25 Aug 2014, 15:18 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Due to increasingly dramatic regulations on CO2 emissions and fuel economy, the auto industry is adopting aluminum over steel to meet the government imposed thresholds. In that regard, the world...
Toyota UK Switches ON 13,000 Solar Panels
21 Aug 2014, 12:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Selling cars that sip fuel doesn’t necessarily make you a green automaker if the factory where you build them is gulping energy and pollutes the environment. That’s why Toyota is slowly ...
These Are the Most Stolen Vehicles in the United States
21 Aug 2014, 11:48 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Here we have yet another study about which are the most stolen nameplates in America. Courtesy of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the annual Hot Wheels report used data submitted by law enforce...
Mercedes-Benz Found Guilty for Fixing Prices of Aftersales Services in China
20 Aug 2014, 11:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / For a few months now, Chinese publications have reported that Mercedes-Benz might've manipulated prices of aftersales services in the Asian country. For example, the German manufacturer hiked t...
Calling All Hackers, Tesla Needs You To Improve its Cars
18 Aug 2014, 16:09 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As cars now tend to transform into computers on wheels, hackers are given an extra back door to cause harm and steal things. Tesla, which currently sells some of the most technologically advanced el...
New Electric Bus Recharges in 15 Seconds at Each Bus Stop
18 Aug 2014, 15:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Electricity declared war to those dinosaur-juice-addicted machines we call cars. More and more electric vehicles surface the market claiming to be the future of personal transportation. But what abo...
Jaguar Land Rover Drops Details on the Special Vehicle Operations Facility
14 Aug 2014, 16:18 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / JLR's newly introduced go-faster division has chosen Prologis Park in Ryton as its home. The Special Vehicle Operations Technical Centre will create 100 new jobs, specializing in developing hig...
The Cost of Owning a Car in America, a List of All States
14 Aug 2014, 15:09 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / While we’re all the same while sitting on Cobo Hall’s floor and watching the latest unveil brought by the Detroit Motor Show, when it comes to going out there and actually buying a car, ...
China Invents Yet Another New Car Brand: Cowin Auto
12 Aug 2014, 13:09 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / As if the Chinese domestic automakers don’t have enough offerings, a new car brand is on the horizon. Dubbed Cowin Auto, this will actually be a sub-brand of Chery, aimed at selling, you guess...
Western Europe Car Sales Up 5 Percent This July
8 Aug 2014, 11:28 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / LMC Automotive, a company specialized in providing auto industry intelligence, has released a report according to which sales in Western Europe hiked in July to a little over 1 million vehicles. Yea...
Motorhome Sales On the Rise, Ford Is the Best-Selling RV Chassis Manufacturer
7 Aug 2014, 15:55 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / From January through May 2014, the U.S. recreational vehicle market has enjoyed a hike in sales volume. Class A motorhomes, which can retail for more than $150,000, are up 12 percent according to da...
Updated Heavy-Duty Trucks are the Fastest-Selling Pickups in the Month of July
7 Aug 2014, 11:54 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As of recent months, the pickup segment in the United States was met with high demand for heavy-duty models. Due to its popularity and low starting MSRP, the 2014 Toyota Tacoma Double Cab sits at th...
Tesla Trademark Dispute in China Settled Out of Court
6 Aug 2014, 17:00 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Like many other trademark disputes, the one that made Tesla's China expansion difficult has been solved recently. What was the threat that might've made the automaker's offensive prob...
Chrysler Posts $619 Million Net Income in the Second-Quarter
6 Aug 2014, 15:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / That figure translates to a 22 percent hike compared to the second-quarter of 2013, which is encouraging news after a slightly embarrassing first-quarter. Chrysler also posted sales earnings of $20....
Daimler Wants to Bump its Aston Martin Stake to 5 Percent
5 Aug 2014, 09:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The German multinational corporation is on its way to acquire another 1 percent of Aston Martin, thus hiking its stake to 5 percent. Even so, the British marque is one of the very few modern sports ...
Jaguar & Land Rover Use the Most Aluminum in the Automotive Industry
5 Aug 2014, 08:25 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / All things considered, The Tesla Model S is an aluminum-intensive vehicle, while the 2015 Ford F-150 pickup truck's body is 95 percent military grade aluminum alloy, but even so, Jaguar Land Ro...
Ford Drawing Owners In with Lifetime No-Cost Replacement for Motorcraft Brake Pads
4 Aug 2014, 12:15 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Like all vehicle consumables, brake pads need to be professionally checked every 12 months or 10,000 miles and replaced if the wear might affect the stopping power of the automobile. It's not a...
New Bus Rollover Standard Proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation
4 Aug 2014, 11:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In an attempt to harmonize European bus safety standards with the ones applied in the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently cooking up new rules that will im...
Ford Announces Best July Results in 8 Years
3 Aug 2014, 11:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Compared to July 2013, this year's July has seen the Ford Motor Company sell 212,236 vehicles in North America, an increase of 10 percent over the same period last year and the best July in 8 y...