James has covered the car industry for 18 years, from Detroit bankruptcy courtrooms to Nürburgring pit lanes. He founded OctaneDaily to prove that fast news and careful facts aren't enemies. Based in London, drives a high-mileage 987 Cayman he refuses to sell.
Volvo's $111 million write-down, Tesla's shrinking credit sales, and Stellantis' stranded purchase contracts show who paid for a zero CAFE fine — and which cars it puts at risk.
Ford, Toyota, Porsche, Land Rover, and Hyundai filed recalls this week. The smallest carries the most urgent warning, which is why the count tells you so little.
The hybrid rated Acceptable and the plug-in Marginal in the rear-passenger test, while a seat belt fix turned the Nissan Kicks into a Top Safety Pick.
The $4 billion Peach County plant will build up to 200,000 SUVs a year, but Audi hasn't named a single model, and production won't start before the early 2030s.
We scored six promised pickups on five tests: confirmation, plant, date, price, and a truck you can see. Slate passes all five. Volkswagen passes none.
Tariffs, lost EV incentives, and a $111 million CAFE write-down hit Volvo's third quarter. Its US answer: XC60 production in South Carolina from early 2027.
The 2027 Wrangler lineup confirms the plug-in isn't returning. It sold up to 67,429 a year, yet Wrangler sales rose 5% last quarter without it.
Subaru lowered Outback prices and Ford gave the Mach-E more battery, but the average new car still costs more. The cuts land where sales are slipping.
Chery says it can build a car that meets U.S. content rules and wants an American partner. Two of five barriers still look like hard stops.
The Camry, RAV4, and now the NX have lost their gas versions. On the first two, entry prices rose about $2,000, a hybrid premium rivals still can't match.
Profit fell 43% and R&D jumped 69%, while unsupervised driving for owners' cars slipped to around mid-2027. Here is what that means for FSD and Model Y prices.
A reported 509-hp Outback-bodied prototype is Subaru's first EV engineered without Toyota. The real story is Panasonic cells, a 2029 date, and what Honda and Mazda already got wrong.
Pickups pushed North American margins to 8.7% and funded a new $20 billion buyback, while GM's US share slid to 16.1% and fleet's slice grew.
The December 3 ballot renews Musk, Denholm, and Straubel for three years and carries no shareholder proposals. The end of human-driven Teslas is not on it, and nobody is asking.
Vietnam's Green SM opened bookings in LA on October 13 with VinFast VF 8s and full-time drivers, as VinFast's own U.S. retail sales stay in the hundreds.
Porsche left the door open, Corvette's chief engineer priced it shut, and BMW M blamed 48 volts. Add Alfa's number and you get the manual's next four years.
Musk has now said it twice, to investors and to customers. For the people who own the other two million Teslas a year, the barrel roll was the sideshow.
The new PLM.AI platform, built with CONTACT Software and Siemens, is meant to halve physical testing and get new models to market up to 30% sooner. Mercedes is putting roughly half a billion euros behind it.
The three S-Class sedans crossed 55 countries in nine months; AMG used their return to show an electric SUV that matches the Cayenne Turbo Electric on power and nearly doubles its charging speed.
The city says listings rated below market came out above it once required fees were added — and that CarGurus’s AI chatbot left those fees out entirely.