Cruise Origin Cruise DETROIT – Cruise, General Motors’ majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is targeting a fleet of 1 million or more self-driving vehicles by 2030. Cruise CEO Dan Ammann showed investors Wednesday a graphic of the company’s “exponential Cruise fleet ramp” that showed scaling its operations to a million or more vehicles by the end
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After a 25-years hiatus, the 2021 Ford Bronco two-door manual SUV is set to become the envy among the off-roading community. After a lengthy period in which the Jeep Wrangler dominated the market as the only off-roader in its segment, Ford decided it was time to do something about it. Sofyan Bey of Redline Reviews
A man has died and seven other people were injured, two seriously, in a tragic accident at Germany’s Nürburgring circuit on Monday. The accident happened on the old 12.9-mile Nordschleife track during one of the regular touristenfahrten days where members of the public can pay €25 ($29) to drive their own cars. Local media outlets
In this article GM DETROIT — General Motors plans to double its annual revenue to $280 billion by the end of this decade as it transitions to all-electric vehicles and diversifies its operations beyond selling cars and trucks. The automaker announced the new revenue target, along with fatter projected operating profit margins of 12% to
A 1974 Porsche 911 RSR IROC race car once owned by Columbian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar is again up for sale, this time through Collecting Cars. The car, which was listed for sale earlier this year by DuPont Registry with a $2.2 million asking price, was raced by Formula One champion Emerson Fittipaldi in the
The Ferrari Roma doesn’t offer the same kind of performance as the automaker’s mid-engined supercars but as Harry Metcalfe recently discovered in a test of the Roma, it has its own strengths. The veteran journalist first drove the Roma earlier in the year but cold weather and heavy rain made it hard for him to
Apparently, there’s more to this incident than meets the eye as new footage that emerged on TikTok (mirror here) allegedly shows the Lamborghini driver illegally overtaking the Audi that was stopped at a crosswalk, nearly hitting a bicyclist in the process. The woman who was driving the Audi claims in a second TikTok video that
Tesla has implemented a price increase across its entire Model 3 and Model Y lineup in an overnight update to its online configurator in the US. During the first half of 2021, Tesla went on a spree of price increases across its electric vehicle lineup. The automaker literally wouldn’t go two weeks with increasing the
As a former start-up investor and the co-founder and CEO of $1 billion autos marketplace Carro, Aaron Tan knows a thing or two about running a business. But if he had one piece of advice for other would-be entrepreneurs, it would be this: don’t go it alone. “I don’t know whether I am qualified enough
The GMC Hummer EV has the potential to be one of the most exciting off-roaders launched in recent years and a handful of journalists recently had the opportunity to test it out in prototype form. The example tested was fitted with the flagship tri-motor powertrain, which will also happen to be the first powertrain that’s
7:29 PM ET Associated Press The IndyCar future of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato was in doubt Tuesday after Rahal Letterman Lanigan said the Japanese driver won’t return to the team next year. Sato has raced in IndyCar since 2010 following seven seasons in Formula One. The Tokyo native has driven for Rahal the
Fender has partnered with Lexus to produce 100 special guitars. Finished in Structural Blue, the LC Stratocaster is painted in the same color as the Lexus LC 500 Convertible Inspiration Series. “When we saw the first iteration of this Stratocaster, we couldn’t believe how well it matched the original LC 500 Inspiration Series,” said Vinay
It’s high time for Sandy Munro to share his first impressions of the 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe Rubicon Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) with all the “boys and girls” out there. While Munro works hard to provide impressions of every new EV possible, and even goes so far as to tear some completely apart, this particular
In this article F Hertz rental cars are parked in a rental lot near Detroit Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Michigan. Rebecca Cook | Reuters Shares of Hertz Global on Tuesday were up by as much as 13.3% after the car rental company named former Ford CEO Mark Fields as its interim chief executive officer. Fields,
As Nissan Skyline GT-R values continue to soar, the automaker’s Nismo performance division has launched a factory restoration program. This Nismo-produced video shows an R32 Skyline GT-R going through the process. The comprehensive restoration process involves stripping the car down to its bare body shell. The shell is then checked for damaged, given an anti-rust
Amazing. That’s about the only way you can describe the 2022 Ford Maverick as the pickup starts at $19,995 and comes with a hybrid powertrain that allowed us to average 49 mpg (4.8 lt/100 km) in real-world testing. That’s insane, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg as the Maverick is so much more
A fleet of Maserati Quattroportes bought by the Papua New Guinea government has been offered for sale at a sizeable discount. The fleet of 40 luxury Italian sedans was imported to transport dignitaries attending the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC) summit. Each car reportedly cost over K500,000 ($142,000) each, with a total of K20m ($5.7
Getty Images New car registrations fell to their lowest levels in September for more than two decades, according to figures from the industry’s trade body. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said new registrations dropped 35% compared with the same month a year earlier. Falling car production has been blamed on an ongoing
By Simon Alvarez Posted on October 5, 2021 Tesla has issued a statement responding to a San Francisco jury’s recent decision, which ordered the company to pay $137 million to a former contract employee who worked at the Fremont factory. The former worker, Owen Diaz, had accused the company of ignoring the racial abuse that
In this article GM GM CEO Mary Barra talks with media prior to the start of the 2017 General Motors Company Annual Meeting of Stockholders Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at GM Global Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. Photo by John F. Martin for GM DETROIT – General Motors CEO Mary Barra and other executives will detail
Porsche rarely, if ever, introduces a 911 variant that doesn’t live up to the world’s lofty standards and as Doug DeMuro discovered in his most recent review, the new 911 GT3 Touring is everything he hoped it would be. As you probably already know, the new 911 GT3 Touring is essentially the same as the
2:23 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Czech racer Filip Salac was taken by helicopter to a hospital after crashing hard early in the Moto3 race in at the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas. Race officials at the Circuit of the Americas said the 19-year-old was conscious after the crash and was taken
GM will revive the Hummer nameplate in the 2022 model year with the GMC Hummer EV, an all-electric pickup truck with a 0-60 mph time in the three-second range and a price tag of more than $100,000. Lower priced models will follow for subsequent model years and so will an SUV. The Hummer brand became
A group of thieves recently broke into a metro Detroit Dodge dealer and made off with several high-performance models worth $329,000. According to WDIV, the thieves broke into Szott Dodge in Highland Township on September 29th by apparently forcing open a door. Once inside, they rummaged around and found a locker that contained keys to
In this article QCOM VNE MG-CA Qualcomm said on Monday that it will purchase part of auto components supplier Veoneer in a transaction valued at $4.5 billion, as the chipmaker dives deeper into the car market. Qualcomm is teaming up with investment firm SSW Partners to complete the transaction. Qualcomm will acquire Veoneer’s Arriver business,
Rivian’s first product, the 2022 R1T full-size pickup, is now in production and initial impressions, including from us, are positive. That should bode well for the company’s efforts to raise additional funds by launching an initial public offering, a filing for which was made with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week. The filing discloses
4:28 PM ET Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — NASCAR’s playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway was washed out and rescheduled for Monday because persistent rain backed the series into too tight of a window to run as scheduled. The race was initially delayed almost two hours and NASCAR made one attempt Sunday at starting the 500-miler.
People pull off all kinds of weird stuff every day, but hanging on to the side of a semi-truck when it’s on the freeway, like one unidentified man in Atlanta, Georgia did a few weeks ago, is not just weird – it’s extremely dangerous. The shirtless man was seen sitting on the steps of the
Tesla, which is already suing Rivian and former employees hired by the electric pickup truck startup, is expanding its lawsuit against the company. It now claims that Rivian is stealing its “trade secrets” about battery technology. Rivian has been one if not the most serious electric vehicle startup since Tesla, and part of why the
The BMW iX is the first electric vehicle developed from the ground up from the German car manufacturer, but is it good enough to win over shoppers also considering SUVs like the Tesla Model X, Mercedes-Benz EQC, Audi e-tron, and Jaguar I-Pace? A number of publications were recently invited to Germany to test the iX.