The world’s automotive manufacturers are still in love with the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) despite the fact that the majority of them will either never be used as a utility vehicle or cannot be referenced as a sports model! Over the last decade, we have seen the market grow from a handful of models from Range Rover, Porsche and Lincoln to pretty much every luxury manufacturer … [Read more...]
Ex Chrysler Dealers Sue US Government
Back in 2008/2009 during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), two of the Big Three were close to failure. General Motors recreated itself and left its bad debts with the older entity whilst Chrysler, having left the DaimlerChrysler group in 2007 was struggling with its new owners Cerebus Capital Management. The timing of that transaction probably saved Daimler Benz during the … [Read more...]
Jaguar Land Rover Wins Fight Against LandWind
One of the first articles we wrote after converting Motoring Weekly from a podcast into a written form was about the LandWind X7 and how it was a clone of the first series Range Rover Evoque. That was back in December 2014 and mistakenly called a Land Wing - it was still a pre-production model then. Now, over four years later, a Chinese Court has finally ruled that LandWind … [Read more...]
The Mazda Toyota Twins
Badge engineering is alive and well - in the US at least. Toyota have just released information on a new Yaris hatchback for this market and it is a Toyota by name only! In all other markets it is a Mazda 2. Toyota decided that it would not be building a new Yaris for the US market because it would cost too much to deliver a small city car to a country that loves its big … [Read more...]
FCA Settles Incorrect Sales Numbers Lawsuit
FIAT Chrysler (FCA), who have been in the news quite a lot recently, has recently settled an anti-trust lawsuit that was filed in January 2016. The lawsuit consisted of several parts: racketeering, anti-trust and breach of contract. Initially the racketeering charges were dismissed in October 2016 and then dismissed again in July 2017 when they were rewritten and recharged. … [Read more...]