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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]