You might not yet have heard of Super Cruise and no, it’s not a 21st century spinoff of the hit 1970s TV series The Love Boat. You are visiting an automotive site, not Nickelodeon Online. Super Cruise is an autonomous driving system that will be offered in the 2018 Cadillac CT6 this fall. Cadillac claims …
2017 XF 20d: Jaguar pulls on big boy pants, tackles Germans head-on
During these past 12 months, Jaguar shifted from charismatic niche brand with a nice history and a spotty quality record to something quite different: serious alternative to the Big Three Germans, Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. It happened without much fanfare; many didn’t even notice. But we saw the plan begin to unfold in real time …
U.S. judge sums up VW’s Dieselgate: only the little guy hurt ‘by this corporate greed’
The timing certainly is appropriate. On the eve of Earth Day, Volkswagen’s operations in both Canada and the United States have reached new settlements and agreed to new penalties in the ongoing “Dieselgate” emissions scandal that has rocked the company’s bottom line. Still, no senior executive has even been charged with a criminal offence in this …
2017 Infiniti QX30: the alliances strike their compromises
The car business is glamourous and gritty. Complicated and simple. Global and local. Every product decisions is a $1 billion investment, or more. The oversized egos who run car companies are amusing yet somehow manage to retain their sanity while managing creative types — designers and engineers who are passionate, eccentric and sometimes unruly. Point …
May 3, 2017 | Commentary, First on the Grid Like Comments (0) |
Winners and losers: April’s auto sales story in Canada
Okay, the full Canadian April sales numbers are in and they spin many interesting tales about the winners and losers in this market. Losers? For starters, year-over-year new vehicle sales declined in April compared to a year ago, reports DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. Sales fell slightly, by 1.6 per cent to 197,203 from 200,384 a year …
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