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Once BYD figures out a path into the US market, they’ll disrupt the heck out of it. Bring on the low cost, high quality BEVs that Detroit stubbornly refuses to make in a repeat of the 1970s!

Stellantis’s truck volumes have collapsed despite them being all-new designs. Gas guzzlers don’t sell.

I see you managed to cram every talking point for the fossil fuel lobby into a single post. Well done! The one about the grid is especially funny. How many big manufacturing plants or AC installs are being cancelled due to “decrepit power grids?” Not one. That’s because the whole talking point...

Anybody who wants a V8 Charger or Challenger can pick one up today at your local CDJR dealer. They’re overflowing with unsold 2022 and 2023 inventory. The market for gas guzzlers is rapidly shrinking; Ford is making a Mustang sedan because the market is now too small to support more than one...

My grandfather's Acclaim wasn't a turbo. But he ended up with the dreaded four cylinder engine. And ended up loving it.

Yet another example of how nobody wants gas guzzlers anymore. Fleets are moving to electric.

I keep seeing the claim that all-electric cars aren't selling, even as supplies of EVs are sold out and your local CDJR dealer has unsold inventory of Hemis from 2022, 2023 and 2024. Seems to me that the evidence shows that EVs are outperforming gas-guzzlers in sales growth, and nobody wants a...

And my grandfather refused the turbo 2.5 to "keep his 328 V8" too. Until he could no longer buy a car with one and ended up in an Acclaim.

1: Donald Trump isn't winning anything, except perhaps an orange prison jumper. 2: If everyone wanted an old fashioned pushrod HEMI V8, there's nothing stopping them from buying one. Your local CDJR dealer is absolutely bursting at the seams with unsold 2023 and 2024 HEMI trucks, SUVs and...

Gas car sales are cratering. Stellantis has few viable battery-powered models and is suffering because of it.

That's not what's going to happen. Go to any CARB state and you see lots of Tesla, Hyundai, and Kia EVs. Brands that make the transition will fill the streets of CARB states. Brands that refuse to do so or fail to do so will be stuck in the states that aren't CARB and will disappear. There's...

I keep seeing old-school die-hards insist that EVs are "dead" and gas guzzlers are the future, but the numbers tell a different story. This year, Tesla will sell more EV sedans in the USA alone than Dodge, Chrysler, Alfa Romeo, FIAT and Maserati combined will sell of all gas sedans worldwide...

The same is true of Stellantis USA and GM. Without $40 billion in taxpayer bailout cash, the entire portfolio of GM and Chrysler brands would have failed and disappeared back in 2008, joining AMC, Studebaker, Packard, Nash, Hudson, and Kaiser-Fraser in the automotive graveyard.

Vehicle sales are slowing across the board and have been for a while; people who point to EVs and say they’re slowing and starting to decline are half right, half wrong. The implicit suggestion that gas car sales are growing is totally false. Overall, cars and housing have inflated in price by...

There will be a transition, but it will be short. Once the Chinese product starts selling in quantity, ICE will go the way of Oldsmobile.

If electric is dead, how come Tesla sells almost 15 cars for every Challenger or Charger Dodge manages to sell? Seems to me that the gas guzzling muscle car is dead and some are in denial about it. Dodge either adopts to the change, or keeps shipping obsolete gas cars with ever-shrinking...

If you want torque and gobs of power, the EV is going to be the best bet. The HEMI has dreadful emissions, which is why it’s being cut. It isn’t just about economy but also carbon pollution. Big V8s are pollution monsters and required huge payments for carbon credits that would keep increasing...

A 2017 RAM is eight years old in 2024. If you wait another year to buy that Chevy, that will be your last ICE truck — GM is dropping ICE by 2035.

For now, and not for much longer. ICE engines are on their way out in the next decade. Large displacement engines are on their way out right now. Reactions to the move towards efficiency and low emissions have always been strong. Today’s people angry about the end of the HEMI and the...

Sounds like you haven’t used an EV since the original Leaf. A 400 volt architecture car will charge from 20% to 80% in less than 20 minutes at a fast charger. An 800 volt car will get from 20% to 80% in less than ten. And if you’re like most drivers, you’ll rarely use a fast charger anyway...