Honda is launching a flexible used vehicle leasing program in Southern California and Florida for its Honda and Acura brands. Terms offered include month-to-month agreements or more traditional term lengths, and leases are signed for and delivered through the Fair …
General Motors and Unifor have agreed to bring back full-size truck production to the OEM’s Oshawa assembly plant in southern Ontario. “Subject to ratification of our 2020 agreement with Unifor, General Motors plans to bring pickup production back to the …
The U.S. officially left the Paris Climate Agreement amid the presidential election race but former Vice President Joe Biden plans to rejoin it in 77 days, according to a twitter post. “Biden has already laid out a US$2 trillion clean …
Consumer Reports (CR) has ranked General Motors’ SuperCruise above Tesla’s Autopilot, noting that the latter came in “a distant second.” GM’s system scored 69 out of a possible 100, while 17 vehicles were tested with driving assistance systems. “The best …
Big international auto shows like in Detroit, Geneva, Frankfurt and Paris have had their day, according to Auto Express writer Mike Rutherford. “The future for such savagely expensive static global automotive events in the western world is almost as grim …
Tesla continues to expand, now with plans for dozens of new service centres expected to pop up throughout the United States as part of the automaker’s expansion. “Tesla reportedly plans to open a new service centre every single week in …
Ford announced on Saturday that it sold one of its factories in Brazil to Construtora São José, a civil construction and logistics firm, and asset manager FRAM Capital, according to Reuters. “A previous agreement to sell the factory in Sao …
Volkswagen is recalling more than 33,414 Jetta sedans in Canada and 218,192 in the United States because “bolts holding some high-pressure tubing can come loose over time, allowing fuel to leak and increasing the risk of a fire,” according to …
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s first official policy will be to set a target for achieving carbon neutrality, or net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Japan is the world’s fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter. “We need to change our thinking to …
Britain signed its first major post-Brexit trade deal with Japan amid struggles to agree on the terms of a new deal with the European Union. The deal with Japan means Britain will remove its tariffs on Japanese cars in stages …
A California appeals court has ruled that an injunction issued against Uber and Lyft remains appropriate. The injunction was issued in August and indicates that the companies must start classifying their drivers as employees in the state. It stems from …
Thatcham Research has reacted to a U.K. government proposal to allow hands- and eyes-off driving as of 2021 with automated lane-keeping systems. According to Thatcham’s director of research, Matthew Avery, the government’s plan threatens road safety. “Proper automation is what …
