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Car News In the Rearview: Trump Kicks Off the Eco-Wars

Car News In the Rearview: Trump Kicks Off the Eco-Wars

Hello, and welcome back once more to In the Rearview, where I, your benevolent local car journalist-y dude, bring you a digest of the past week’s top car news in bite-sized form. Two weeks ago, the nation was rocked as President Donald Trump egregiously and audaciously did exactly what he said he was going to […]

 The News Wheel

GM Announces 900 New or Retained Jobs, Brace for Trump Tweet

GM Announces 900 New or Retained Jobs, Brace for Trump Tweet

Today General Motors announced plans to add or retain approximately 900 jobs across three Michigan facilities over the next 12 months—which, if history is any indication, means that Donald Trump will soon be taking credit for “creating American jobs.” The 900 jobs are in addition to the 7,000 jobs and $1 billion in US investments […]

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In the Rearview: Sick of Talking About Trump

In the Rearview: Sick of Talking About Trump

Welcome to In the Rearview, where I (sometimes belatedly) bring you some of the top automotive news of the past week. This time, we open by talking about emissions rules–while automakers have been begging the new administration to relax or delay EPA emissions regulations, consumer advocate groups have been asking for the exact opposite, arguing […]

 The News Wheel

Trump Administration Pondering Self-Driving Cars

Trump Administration Pondering Self-Driving Cars

We’ve been talking about autonomous cars pretty much non-stop on The News Wheel for months, if not years. Self-driving cars are the future, so we have been told, and will make our roadways infinitely safe. The innovations in autonomous cars were spurred on in the past few years by support from the Obama administration, which […]

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I’m Sick of Talking Trump: Let’s Argue About What Would Be Good To Drive on the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets

I’m Sick of Talking Trump: Let’s Argue About What Would Be Good To Drive on the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets

All right, everyone, let’s start with a not-too-startling admission: I’m already sick of talking about Donald Trump. However, in these first months of his administration, a lot of the news is in some way related. I want a break. So, for kicks and giggles, let’s talk about the recently-discovered exoplanets, the seven Earth-sized planets found […]

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President Trump Has Illuminating Breakfast with American Automakers

President Trump Has Illuminating Breakfast with American Automakers

Earlier this week, newly-inaugurated President Trump hosted breakfasts and morning meetings with leaders of industry. Monday’s meeting was aimed generally at manufacturers, while Tuesday’s was a fairly exclusive meeting with executives from the American automakers. At both meetings, the President stressed the need to return manufacturing jobs to the United States, promising big tax cuts to those that […]

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UPDATE: President Trump’s New Cadillac Limousine Coming This Spring

UPDATE: President Trump’s New Cadillac Limousine Coming This Spring

President Trump has owned a number of high-profile cars over the years, including a 1991 Acura NSX and 1997 Lamborghini Diablo VT, but now that he’s Commander-in-Chief that means he’ll be riding around in a heavily armored Cadillac limousine. There’s only one problem though: Cadillac still hasn’t put the final touches on Trump’s new ride, […]

 Patrick Grieve

President Trump Promises Auto CEOs He Will Reduce Taxes and Regulations “Bigly”

President Trump Promises Auto CEOs He Will Reduce Taxes and Regulations “Bigly”

President Donald Trump, a throwaway Simpsons joke become horrifyingly real, recently held a meeting with top business leaders to discuss American manufacturing. Among those gathered was Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, Ford CEO Mark Fields, and General Motors CEO Mary Barra, who at one time was considered as a running mate for Trump’s rival, Hillary Clinton. […]

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Trump Meets with Tesla and Ford CEOs to Talk American Manufacturing

Trump Meets with Tesla and Ford CEOs to Talk American Manufacturing

If there’s one thing Trump is likely to take seriously during his presidency, it’s US manufacturing jobs. It was the platform he ran on during the election and during the transition he had already met with top American executives on several occasions to discuss the matter. On his first full day as president, Trump once […]

 Patrick Grieve

Mary Barra Attending Trump Inauguration as Spectator in Our Universe, as Vice President in Parallel One

Mary Barra Attending Trump Inauguration as Spectator in Our Universe, as Vice President in Parallel One

Are you guys familiar with the multiverse? Neither am I, but I think I get the broad strokes of it, which are that there is an infinite number of universes contained within a hypothetical set of possible universes. Many of these “parallel” or “alternative” universes are very similar to our own, but with minor changes. […]

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In the Rearview: Trump Tweets and Weirdness from Dodge

In the Rearview: Trump Tweets and Weirdness from Dodge

Greetings and welcome back to In the Rearview, where we take you on a mystic journey through some of the top stories on The News Wheel in the past week. We open with the hot topic among news outlets and one that I really just wanted out of the way quickly: Donald Trump’s tweets. First […]

 Kurt Verlin

Toyota Announces Meaningless $10 Billion US Investment Following Meaningless Trump Tweet

Toyota Announces Meaningless $10 Billion US Investment Following Meaningless Trump Tweet

Shortly after President-elect Donald Trump threatened Toyota with a “big border tax” if it were to build a new plant for the Corolla in Baja, Mexico, the Japanese automaker announced a $10 billion investment in the United States—but it would be a mistake to imagine any meaningful connection between the two events. If we put […]

 Kyle Johnson

New Ford Bronco Confirmed by UAW Official Responding to Trump Claims

New Ford Bronco Confirmed by UAW Official Responding to Trump Claims

Look, Donald Trump is objectionably irredeemable and terrible, okay? He’s a petulant manchild who doesn’t seem to have the temperament necessary to run a pizza shop on a Friday night, never mind serve the interest of the people as the President of the United States, and his relationship with reality is tenuous at best and […]

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Seattle Driver Gets Caught Using Trump Cardboard Cutout in HOV Lane

Seattle Driver Gets Caught Using Trump Cardboard Cutout in HOV Lane

You always hear of people trying to use the HOV lane, which is for cars with two or more passengers, when they don’t actually have a second passenger. One guy in Long Island, New York, tried to get by with a wooden figure dressed in a hoodie; another tried to make things interesting by using […]

 Kyle Johnson

CEO Mark Fields Laughs Off Trump Assertion That Ford Will “Fire All Their Employees”

CEO Mark Fields Laughs Off Trump Assertion That Ford Will “Fire All Their Employees”

Ford CEO Mark Fields announced on Tuesday that the automaker will have moved all small-car manufacturing to Mexico within “the next two to three years,” which created enough of a stir in the atmosphere that it roused a hideous orange beast from its ancient slumber. Republican presidential nominee and somewhat-flesh-colored garbage bag filled with fresh […]

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Ford to Move All Small Car Manufacturing to Mexico by 2019; Trump Responds

Ford to Move All Small Car Manufacturing to Mexico by 2019; Trump Responds

Ford CEO Mark Fields told investors on Tuesday that the company intends to move all of its North American small-car manufacturing operations to Mexico “over the next two to three years.” The automaker has recently come under fire for its investments in Mexico from the likes of Donald Trump, who addressed the issue at a […]

 Kyle Johnson

Former GM CEO Akerson: Trump “Lacks the Competence” to Be President

Former GM CEO Akerson: Trump “Lacks the Competence” to Be President

There are many things that could be said about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Just reading that name, you no doubt sense words bubbling to the surface that describe your feelings about the man. You might think, for example, that he is a born leader who is rational, intelligent, and capable of expressing himself in […]

 Kyle Johnson

Trump Calls Out General Motors in Statement, Then Pretends He Didn’t

Trump Calls Out General Motors in Statement, Then Pretends He Didn’t

2016 is an historic year in American politics if only because, for the first time in the country’s history, one of the presumptive nominees is a woman and the other is a nightmarish potato-person who has been dipped into orange food coloring that also somehow makes him racist. Donald Trump, the sole remaining candidate on […]