Author: Editor - The Auto Journal

The U.S. market’s pent-up demand for brand spanking new autos has but to be glad, resulting from inhabitants and family progress, excessive house values, and pandemic-induced shutdowns regardless of rising rates of interest, larger gasoline costs, and inflation. Automakers and suppliers can anticipate persevering with robust gross sales regardless of persevering with provide constraints and semiconductor shortages which are removed from gone.  New car demand stays robust, however a scarcity of stock is hurting gross sales. That’s the prediction from Alix Partners’ 19th annual Global Automotive Outlook, which was launched Wednesday. “Many are saying it’s getting better and it’s going to…

2022 Genesis G80 3.5T Sport Prestige in “Siberian Ice” paint 2022 Genesis G80 3.5T Sport Prestige Class: Premium Large Car Miles pushed: 335 Fuel used: 19.5 gallons CG Report Card Room and ComfortA- Power and PerformanceB Fit and FinishA- Fuel EconomyC+ ValueA- Report-card grades are derived from a consensus of test-driver evaluations. All grades are versus different automobiles in the identical class. Value grade is for particular trim degree evaluated, and will not mirror Consumer Guide’s impressions of all the mannequin lineup. Big & Tall Comfort Big GuyB Tall GuyB+ Big & Tall consolation rankings are for entrance seats solely. “Big” ranking based…

At the age of 16, Pedro Acosta took the Moto3 World Championship by storm when he received the 2021 Doha Grand Prix after a pitlane begin. The Spanish phenom continued to dominate the primary half of the Moto3 season earlier than securing the title at simply 17 years outdated. The hype surrounding the younger Red Bull KTM Ajo rider reached a fever pitch following the 2022 Moto2 pre-season checks. However, Acosta stumbled out of the blocks, solely recording three point-scoring finishes within the first eight races. Number 51 turned his season round on the Italian Grand Prix, although, changing into…

Ollen Bruton Smith was born March 2, 1927, in Oakboro, N.C. His ardour for automobiles began at an early age; Smith offered used automobiles from his entrance garden as a youngster and acquired his first race automobile at 17. His time on the observe was restricted, although, as he gave up time behind the wheel due to his mom’s worries and requests. Smith offered his first automobile, a 1939 Buick sedan, for a small revenue and continued to promote automobiles from his mom’s entrance yard. The younger entrepreneur additionally promoted his first race earlier than he was 18 years outdated.…

Self-driving vans is not going to get drained. With regulatory modifications that remove service hour limitations, these vans can ostensibly keep on the street for so long as their propulsion techniques preserve them trundling alongside. A brand new startup, Hydron Inc., is working to increase that length. Company officers unveiled plans this month to design and manufacture purpose-built Class 8 vans which are powered by hydrogen, the linchpin of their plans to unlock the time-related advantages of eradicating human drivers. At a time when truck operators wish to cut back their carbon emissions, many are giving hydrogen an extended look…

NEW YORK — U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday added a brand new wire-fraud cost to their case accusing Trevor Milton, the founder and former CEO of Nikola Corp., of defrauding traders by mendacity concerning the electric- and hydrogen-powered truck maker. The new cost considerations Milton’s alleged scheme from April 2020 to March 2021 to defraud the sellers of a property often called Wasatch Creeks Ranch by making false and deceptive statements about Nikola’s product, know-how and enterprise growth. Milton beforehand pleaded not responsible to two counts of securities fraud and one rely of wire fraud over statements he made out of…

We return to our protection of the reborn and neoclassically-focused Stutz Motor Company at the moment, at some extent of appreciable change within the firm’s mannequin portfolio. “Portfolio” could also be a bit beneficiant, however for just a few years the corporate did produce a handful of various fashions. Since Stutz was relaunched in 1970 its fundamental providing was the Blackhawk coupe, in each its authentic 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix foundation and downsized B-body Pontiac Bonneville foundation. But Stutz CEO James O’Donnell all the time needed a real convertible within the Stutz lineup. That want was lastly realized with the Bearcat II.…

Soichiro Honda might be rolling in his grave after the 2022 German GP. Honda has dominated Grand Prix motorbike racing’s premier class within the final 40 years, profitable 21 500cc/MotoGP championships since 1983. That supremacy wore skinny following Marc Marquez’s season-ending humerus harm in 2020. Since then, the Repsol Honda manufacturing unit crew and LCR (Lucio Cecchinello Racing) Team have struggled to seek out constant outcomes. Big Red took drastic measures to deal with the RC213V’s rideability (or lack thereof) following the 2021 season. Despite the crew fully remodeling the race prototype, no Honda rider has stood on the rostrum…

WASHINGTON — U.S. auto regulators mentioned they wish to require automakers to gather extra crash knowledge from occasion knowledge recorders  — extra generally referred to as “black boxes.” The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday proposed requiring black packing containers to gather 20 seconds of pre-crash knowledge at the next frequency fee to assist higher perceive the actions that result in a crash. NHTSA at present requires 5 seconds of pre-crash knowledge at a slower assortment fee for automobiles with EDRs. The company had studied adopting the regulation for greater than three years — as required by Congress below…

Tesla Inc’s new automobile factories in Texas and Berlin are “losing billions of dollars” as they wrestle to extend manufacturing due to a scarcity of batteries and China port points, Chief Executive Elon Musk mentioned not too long ago. “Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now. Okay? It’s really like a giant roaring sound, which is the sound of money on fire,” Musk mentioned in an interview with Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, an official Tesla acknowledged membership, in Austin, Texas, on May 31. The membership divided its interview with Musk into three components, the final of…