Quote Of The Day: Payback’s A Bitch Edition
My commitment is to the American taxpayer. My commitment is to recover every single dime the American people are owed… We want our money back and we’re going to get it. Without even getting into the...
View ArticleHowes: Ford Yanks Bailout Ad After White House Pressure
[UPDATE: Ford has restored the video to Youtube. More details here.] Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes reports in a column that Ford has pulled its controversial “bailout ad” after the White House...
View ArticleWhy Did Ford Drop Its Bailout Ad? House Oversight Chair Investigates
The Detroit News reports that the only Republican in Washington with subpoena power, Rep Darrel Issa has written a letter asking Ford CEO Alan Mulally for “a full and complete explanation of Ford’s...
View ArticleOnly A Nutcase Would Import A Car To America. B.S. Wants To Change That, And...
As a worldly American and car nut, on one of your world travels, there will be a time when you fall in love with a car in a foreign land. The crush on that thing will be so big that you will want to...
View ArticleFollow the High-speed Rail Money: $8 Billion and 6 Years Later
The year is 2010. Hope and Change still lingers in the air. The water in Flint, Michigan is passably safe to drink. And Donald Trump doesn’t have a single pledged delegate to his name. This year saw $8...
View ArticleFields to Trump: Fuel Economy Rules Put One Million U.S. Jobs at Risk
Ford Motor Company chief executive officer and doomsday prophet Mark Fields thinks one million American jobs will be placed in peril if the country’s current fuel economy standards aren’t made more...
View ArticleIndustry CEOs Head Back to White House Amid Growing Pressure Over Travel Ban
President Donald Trump is having a pow-wow with General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a slew of other top U.S. executives today. The business community finds itself...
View ArticleWhite House Plan Virtually Eliminates Funding for EPA Emissions Testing
The Trump administration’s current plan for the Environmental Protection Agency budget removes nearly all funding for vehicle emissions testing. Proposed cuts to the EPA’s budget would eliminate 99...
View ArticleEven Automakers Disagree With Trump’s Choice to Abandon the Paris Accord
On Thursday, President Trump made the decision to ditch the Paris climate accord and the entire internet seemingly spent the next twelve hours calling it a misstep. Either the president possesses a...
View ArticleThe NHTSA: Broken Down, Short on Staff, Slow on Change
The United States is still waiting on a glut of senior appointments within agencies that affect the automotive industry. While the Environmental Protection Agency eventually got Scott Pruitt, many...
View ArticleHouse Members Aren’t Digging Trump Administration’s Auto Trade Proposals
A bipartisan group of over 70 members of the U.S. House of Representatives has asked the Trump administration to reconsider its North American Free Trade Agreement proposal on auto parts rules of...
View ArticlePence Meets With Automakers Annoyed by NAFTA Changes
The automotive industry is wary of any changes that might be made in regard to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Fortunately for them, little progress has been made during the last few months of...
View ArticleJapanese Automakers: Trump’s Steel Tariff Will Cost You More at the Dealership
Earlier this month, President Trump signed an executive order imposing a 25 percent tariff on foreign steel and a 10 percent tariff on foreign aluminum. Hoping to receive an exception, the Japanese...
View ArticleTrade War Watch: Trump Reportedly Delaying Auto Tariffs, Clock Still Ticking
The Trump administration was supposed to make an announcement Tuesday as to whether or not imported automobiles pose a national security risk, following discussions with trade representatives. While it...
View ArticleWhite House to Automakers: Choose a Side in the Great Gas War
The Trump administration has long been at odds with California and a coalition of supportive states that hope to block the rollback of Obama-era fueling regulations the current Environmental Protection...
View ArticleMeet Us in the Middle: Automakers Plead for Peace, Compromise Between White...
The automotive industry is in turmoil. There’s an industrywide push toward electrification that has yet to prove itself as truly profitable, volume seems to be tapering off in the developed world, and...
View ArticleThe Great Gas War: House Committee Plans Hearing On Fuel Efficiency Rollback
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee said it will schedule a hearing on June 20th regarding the Trump administration’s proposal to roll back automotive efficiency...
View ArticleGas War Watch: UAW Goes to Congress, Sides With Automakers on Fuel Economy...
The United Auto Workers is spending Thursday telling Congress that the union opposes the Trump administration’s proposal to freeze fuel efficiency requirements at 2020 levels through 2026… sort of....
View ArticleGas War Watch: EPA and CARB Leadership Won’t Even Share the Same Table
Capitol Hill was the scene of some high-school drama this week after representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) reportedly refused to...
View ArticleGas War Update, Choose a Side Edition
According to recent reports, there’s trouble with the White House’s fuel economy rollback. The Trump administration is said to have been meeting with automakers, asking them to stand behind its...
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