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…
When it comes to vehicle manufacturing, safety and functionality are always of the utmost importance. Sometimes, however, issues slip through the cracks. Recently, GM ordered a recall for 2020 Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 vehicles. The reason? A fault in the brake system. Recall for 2020 Chevy and GMC Last week, GM and the…
Photo by Sanford Myers for General Motors In a time of steadily slowing sales across the board, most news out of the US production plants isn’t great. Usually, it’s a story about how in the face of dropping sales, the automaker is suspending production or laying off workers. However, happy news is coming out of…
Since it was revealed that Volkswagen placed devices specifically made to fool laboratory emissions tests, the automotive industry has been rocked by a wild storm of investigations and commentary. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn took part in the last of these, implying that many people at VW must have known about the cheating devices, because it…
©GM As one of the writers who covers Chevrolet and General Motors news here at The News Wheel, I read an awful lot about Mary Barra. In case you haven’t heard, Ms. Barra is the CEO of General Motors who got her start as an engineer at a Pontiac plant. CEO is an impressive enough job…
While the rest of the automotive industry is moving forward with high-tech hybrids and self-driving cars, Dodge is keeping it old school—and it looks like it’s working for the American carmaker. Through a combination of high-octane power and classic styling, the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat has made a lasting impression on the industry. So…
People come and go from the limelight in the automotive industry like celebrities each with their 15 minutes of fame, but some names have persisted over the years and become power players in the market. If you don’t follow the inner working of the auto industry, make sure you at least know who these trade…
Al Capone’s Car – Photo: Kate Skegg Al Capone was a notorious gangster who made his fortune and national fame during the prohibition era. So what does the world’s most notorious gangster drive? A 1928 Cadillac Model 341A Town Sedan, of course. It’s no coincidence that Al Capone’s car was a souped-up Cadillac – Cadillac was…
2014 Canyonero Hybrid The LA Auto Show isn’t for another 11 days, and though we know that there will be a multitude of reveals there, it’s going to be awful hard for anybody to top the revelation of the Canyonero Hybrid on last night’s episode of The Simpsons. Jalopnik’s resident eagle eye Jason Torchinsky spotted…
Dan Aykroyd as Zombie Elwood Blues in Blues Brothers 2000, an unholy attempt at resurrecting a dead film property It’s always a bit depressing to watch the inexorable march of time turn once-hip Saturday Night Live stars into paunchy movie dads. As the first host of Weekend Update, 1975-era Chevy Chase was the country’s preeminent…
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