Welcome to In the Rearview, where I bring you the week’s car news, but this time, with gusto. This week, we are once more talking about the giant that is Fiat Chrysler, but I realized that I talk bad about them a lot on these videos, so I wanted to start with some positive news….
Dozens of manufacturers are currently scrambling to reach out to owners and encourage them to get their Takata airbag inflators repaired. Yesterday, Honda announced a new set of initiatives to complete these repairs, but because millions of owners still aren’t bringing in their Hondas, the automaker is resorting to Facebook to find them. Using Facebook’s…
The late-night comedy master Conan O’Brien shares a laugh at Hyundai’s expense Photo:Team Coco via YouTube It’s disheartening seeing the majority of Hyundai news passing through the circuit this month being about the legal scuffle with the EPA concerning Hyundai MPG estimates. Considering the Korean automaker’s a generally-solid brand with respectable products, both the consumers and…
Back in May, I brought you what I deemed the 10 Best Car Memes of the Day—mostly because I was tired about reporting on the GM ignition switch recall—but then the people clamored for more (don’t ask me which people, just know that they wanted more), so last month I brought you the 10 best…
Following GM’s recent recall disaster, it’s nice to know that some car companies can do recalls right (now and then). Chrysler Group recently announced a 2014 Ram ProMaster recall that will likely involve around 6,800 of the vans. The 2014 Ram ProMaster recall comes after a routine post-production test on the ProMaster. During testing, one…
Chevrolet has announced that popular young adult fiction author and Indiana native John Green will serve as the honorary pace car driver at the Verizon IndyCar Series Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis on Saturday, May 14th. Green will pilot a Torch Red 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe around the track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Green…
With each passing week, more automakers are introducing new electric vehicles to their future lineups. Despite this rapid electric adoption, only about 1% of the global market has gone fully electric. This statistic would suggest that people are not buying new electric vehicles, and this is indeed the case. Instead, motorists are leasing electric models. Nearly 80%…
Remember how people were deathly concerned about the epidemic of fires breaking out in Tesla vehicles (read: two instances that resulted in no injuries) and swallowing them whole in an angry conflagration? Funny to think how several months later, the two Tesla fires pale in comparison to the seemingly endless parade of ridiculous things that…
2/27 Update: Ford has issued the following report to the Wall Street Journal story that puts Volkswagen’s investment in Argo AI at $1.7 billion: “Our talks with Volkswagen continue. Discussions have been productive across a number of areas. We’ll share updates as details become more firm.” Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen AG announced plans for a strategic…
Bloomberg reports that Mark Fields will be the new Ford CEO by year’s end Welp, Ford must not be covering up any decades-long safety issues, because today’s news that the automaker will likely name Mark Fields their new CEO is as business-as-usual as it gets. After GM set the standard of only appointing women to…
GM CEO, Mary Barra, delivered an oral testimony at a U.S. House hearing today. Earlier today we posted Mary Barra’s prepared remarks for her U.S. House hearing. Now we’ve got her actual oral remarks, which contain an addition (bolded). The spoken word is definitive. You can read Mary Barra’s oral testimony for the U.S. House…
The Peter Max VH1 Corvettes Photo: NYT Remember back in October when we reported about the famous Peter Max VH1 Corvettes being restored and auctioned off? In case you don’t recall, here’s the story in a nutshell: Pop artist Peter Max bought a bunch of Corvettes of a guy who won them on VH1. He…
Photo: Chevrolet There are a ton of ways to customize your 2020 Chevrolet Corvette. You can choose between wheels, interior colors, seatbelt colors, carbon fiber trim, brake calipers, and even the engine’s appearance. But you can permanently leave your mark on this ‘Vette — for the cost of $5,000, you can specify the last five…
By the end of this year, 10 more major cities will offer Maven’s peer-to-peer car sharing service. Detroit, Ann Arbor, Denver, and Chicago are already using the service, since GM piloted the program in these cities this past summer. According to the automaker, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Jersey City, Baltimore, Boston, and Washington, D.C. will be six…
GM President, Mark Reuss, will not rule out a hybrid Chevy Corvette. Last year, GM President, Mark Reuss, hinted that we shouldn’t rule out a hybrid Chevy Corvette before the current generation (which just began with the 2014 Corvette Stingray) is over. While it’s not very likely that we will actually see such a thing…
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