Demand was still limited, Volkswagen said, adding it was prepared to ramp up capacity at its plants in the country, 22 of which had resumed production.

I remember the first time I drove a car that had nice new brakes. That alone took some adjustment in addition to throttle response, steering, learning blind spots etc. I was slamming on the brakes compared to my old hooptie. 

Must not have been an exec in marketing, Detroit Auto Show in June. 

Only a few blocks away from where this was stolen is some pretty interesting lawn art

Hot take- the name is fine, and I’m really looking forward to driving one. Joe Consumer doesn’t think anything less of a Mustang because of this, and no one is going to mistake the two. People in the know will just roll eyes and drop the Mustang and call it the Mach E.

It’s entirely standard for cars to go up 1-3% every year. Yawn.

No, consider that Google profits off of a TON of data that they can take from your car, and this very well could be a for profit venture for FCA.

5th gear: It’s bizarre to me that FCA gets decisions like this so right, but then just looks incompetent elsewhere. This makes so much sense, let the pros make the software. Also consider how FCA wants to get more in bed with Waymo as the days go by, so offering up this market share is a no brainer for FCA, and now…

I’ve always had a distaste for Pontiac, good riddance. My mom always would harp on us kids to ‘go get a job’ because when she was my age working at a GM plant she could afford her VW Beetle daily and a Firebird Formula and afford to move to NYC on a whim after paying her own way through college. In my era the best…

1st: Can’t help but feel like uber/lyft factor into this. It’s so damn cheap getting a ride somewhere now that you can take that couple hundred bucks a month a car would cost and get around just about anywhere you wish for the same if not less, and there is absolutely a cool factor for kids using an uber. This is a…

It’s called rent a uhaul pickup truck, or one of the dump bodies at Home depot.

If you’re on this website and you don’t at least respect these cars, you’re crazy. Not saying you have to buy one, but when an OEM sits around a table and decides 707 isn’t enough, that’s incredible. This is the supernova of horsepower before electricity and autonomy take over consumer cars eventually.

I did Kalamazoo to Detroit once, 2.5ish hours in a car. Took about 10 hours on Amtrak. Still needed to do the round trip back, took 8 hours. Never again.

All the big three have trucks like that sitting around for two purposes. The one shown in these photos being obvious, but also they test the performance of these bodies on chassis cabs they sell to commercial customers. Flatbeds, fifth wheels, dump trucks, service bodies etc. 

Livernois Motorsport got 50HP and 100TQ peak over peak on 93 octane. Then tighten up the 10 speed it should fly, that trans is the real deal in the mustang. 

First the tick tock model disappears in computer chips now in Ferraris. What is this world coming to?

Meanwhile, FCA stock is down today with this announcement.

Hey the interiors all come from the same suppliers, it just depends how much money they are willing to put into those costs. 

It’s a 2 grand difference when these guys spend all day every day in their trucks, and then very possibly use it to take the kids to soccer practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays when the wife does Pilates. Absolutely they are transitioning to super cabs.

Cool I can totally see a use case for this. It is hard to grab something from the center of a pickup bed, so if I can get closer to the bumper I can see a use. However the straight back exhaust tips make even less sense with this tailgate.