
VinFast's U.S. Plan B: Green SM Launches an All-Electric Taxi Fleet in Los Angeles
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.

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.

The Commerce rule that ended Polestar's U.S. sales from model year 2027 also hangs over the Lincoln Nautilus, Buick Envision, and Lotus. What it bans, and what owners should do.

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.

E-FOREST TECH DAY 2026 opens in Uiwang with about 200 new manufacturing technologies, including an in-house 3D inspection tunnel Hyundai says will go to overseas plants — where humanoid robots are due in 2028.

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.

Penske Corporation and Mitsui will buy out the 27% of PAG they don’t own, taking 365 dealerships and six CarShop stores off the NYSE by early 2027. The counter stays the same; the owners don’t.

Redwood Materials will now take Rivian’s production scrap and worn-out packs, sort them into grid storage or recycling, and keep building the 10 MWh battery farm at the Normal, Illinois plant.

The Hebron facility that feeds Toyota and Lexus dealers across North America opened in 2001 with about 60 people. Today it employs 700 and sits at the center of a two-hub network.

Stamping, mirrors, seals, and brake lines for the Traveler and Terra will come from Spartanburg, Duncan, and Piedmont — but the production clock is what buyers should watch.

AAA’s national average is $4.33, up $1.26 a gallon on last October. We ran the bill for six real vehicles and the EIA’s quarter-by-quarter forecast through March.

Kelley Blue Book’s corrected Q3 report ranks every EV sold in the U.S. The Model Y took 38% of the market alone, new Toyotas and Rivians climbed, and the Equinox EV lost 92% of its buyers.

The Oscar-winning actor joins Bentley’s growing ambassador roster weeks after the Torcal reveal — and her husband, Jean Todt, already owns three of Crewe’s cars.

Acura has told its dealers to expect an adventure-ready SUV in early 2028, a hybrid RDX the same year, and an eight-passenger flagship above the MDX — plus a new V6 hybrid to power the big ones.

Mark Kato, with Hyundai Motor America since 2011, now oversees dealer development for Hyundai and Genesis across North America — a network that has just posted its best third quarter and is still mid-renovation.

Nearly half of pet owners have already declined a trip their animal couldn’t join, and younger drivers are the most likely to plan around their pets, according to a Subaru-commissioned poll of 2,000 U.S. drivers.

Kelley Blue Book counts 266,630 EVs sold in the third quarter. Tesla still takes more than half, Toyota and Lexus nearly quintupled, and Ford and Volkswagen all but vanished.

GM’s EV sales fell 62 percent while Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Kia set hybrid records. Ford has changed course. GM says hybrids are coming but hasn’t named one.

Certified deliveries are due in early 2028 through a bundled service deal with NexMove. Transit agencies spending federal money will need a US-built bus — and VinFast’s American plant is tied up in court.

Volkswagen is spending more on all 27 U.S. national teams and the federation’s new Georgia training center. The redesigned 2027 Atlas is the vehicle it wants soccer families to notice.