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GM to Develop Global Car with China-based SAIC Motors
General Motors will invest $5 billion to build a global line of cars with Shanghai-based SAIC Motors that will be sold in Brazil, China and other emerging markets, the automaker announced Tuesday. The...
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Ford Posts $1.9B Second Quarter Profit, Largest Since 2000
Ford announced that it made a $1.9 billion net-adjusted profit in the second quarter of 2015, marking the largest gain for the automaker since 2000, according to Automotive News. The profit represents...
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Could Africa Support Its Own Auto Industry?
Africa may be one of the last untapped continents for automakers and one of the largest growth markets in the future. But the opportunity is now for carmakers such as Uganda-based Kiira Motors,...
View ArticleFCA Signs Fullback Mitsubishi L200 To Fiat Professionals For 2016 Season
Making its debut at the 2015 Dubai Motor Show, the Fiat Fullback will be playing its first season in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa next May. The Fullback — a rebadged Mitsubishi L200 — takes its...
View ArticleFour Weeks in Africa with the Land Rover Defender
After 67 years, production of the iconic Land Rover Defender ends today. It’s an amazing feat that the Defender has lasted this long. It was a utilitarian vehicle developed at a time when going...
View ArticleMarchionne Straddles the World, Shouting ‘Jeeps for Everyone!’
The Jeep brand is Fiat-Chrysler’s biggest money maker, so it’s no wonder that CEO Sergio Marchionne is scattering factories around the world like a sailor’s offspring. The company’s head honcho...
View ArticleFrom In-Road Rock Formations to Traffic-Directing Robots: A Dispatch from Congo
If you can describe a road surface as being home to a rock formation, you might be in Kinshasa, Congo. Protrusions of solid rock extend several feet above the road surface, as though thrust upward by...
View ArticleCarmakers Shutter Plants In Egypt As Riots Escalate
Most automakers are suspending operations in Egypt while riots continue. Here is a list of current closures: GM has halted operations at its plant near Cairo.- Daimler has stopped production at its...
View ArticleIs Toyota Losing the Market for “Technicals” to China?
You’ve seen them before, photos from some godforsaken place of insurgent warfare. A half dozen rag tag soldiers, if you can call them soldiers, bristling with Chinese Kalishnikov knockoffs, piled into...
View ArticleThe Big, Bad, Automatic Benz That Took on the WRC – the C107
In 1978, Mercedes-Benz made the decision to expand its efforts in rally competition. But its choice of platform to enter into the World Rally Championship was, to say the least, unique. At the time,...
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