- Survey: Tesla has quality gap from store to store – Detroitnews: Tesla stores as a whole scored at the bottom of 35 auto brands on the Prospect Satisfaction Indexhttp://rssfeeds.detroitnews.com/~/i/561094324/0/detroit/autosinsider
- EPA reverses order allowing polluting diesel engines – Detroitnews: Before he left, Scott Pruitt allowed manufacturers to equip new semi-trucks with old, super-polluting diesel engines
- The ‘Big Short’ Steve Eisman is now betting against Tesla – CNBC: Steve Eisman, one of the few investors to successfully bet against subprime mortgage securities during the financial crisis, is betting against Tesla. The portfolio manager called the company’s founder Elon musk a “very smart man” but raised concern …
- Je suis Montana Skeptic – FT: Montana Skeptic left Twitter this week after Elon Musk called the family office where he worked in the hope of speaking to his boss, then threatened to sue. After this drew attention as the sort of thing leaders of well run companies do all the time …
- Porsche 911 GT2 RS – Autocar: Porsche goes supercar hunting with its naughtiest 911. How successful is it? Variously faster, wider, stiffer, more powerful and more ‘motorsport” than any road-going 911 that Porsche has yet made, the 911 GT2 RS – Weissach”s range-topping GT-car…
- Big Short’s Eisman Is Shorting Tesla for ‘Execution Problems’ – Bloomberg: Tesla, whose eroding cash position has alarmed investors, recently asked some suppliers to return a portion of part payments to help the electric-car …
- GM faces fiscal conundrums as it assesses plants – Detroitnews: The automaker faces tough choices when it comes to factories making slow-selling vehicles
- India’s auto industry body says truckers’ strike hits output, exports – Reuters: The ongoing strike by truckers in India has disrupted production and sales of vehicles in the country, as well as exports, resulting in losses for carmakers, an industry body said on Friday.
- Fiat Chrysler says it didn’t know Marchionne was ill for more than a year – CNBC:
- PSA LCV chief predicts sales boost from refreshed range of midsize vans – Automotive News: Our market share at the end of 2017 was 20.2 percent (Peugeot and Citroen), an increase of 1.3 percentage points. We grew three times faster than …
- The Fool’s Game of Picking the Electric Car Champ – WSJ:
- RPT-UPDATE 4-Fiat Chrysler says it did not know about Marchionne’s illness – Reuters: Fiat Chrysler said it knew nothing about the medical condition of Sergio Marchionne after a Swiss hospital said on Thursday it had been treating the deceased chief executive for more than a year.
- Renault profitability follows sales to record high – Reuters: French carmaker Renault said on Friday it achieved record profitability in the first half as emerging-market sales surged, more than offsetting exchange-rate challenges.
- Lamborghini Aventador SVJ onboard video shows new ‘Ring lap record – Autocar: Range-topping Aventador beats Porsche 911 GT2 RS around the Nurburgring in a production car record-setting time of 6 minutes and 44.97 seconds Onboard video footage has shown the new Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce Jota becoming the fastest…
- Updated Land Rover Discovery Sport to get plug-in hybrid – Autocar: Land Rover”s bestseller will be facelifted early next year with a heavily revised platform The heavily revised Land Rover Discovery Sport, likely to be revealed by early 2019, will get a heavily updated platform to deliver much-improved ride comfort,…
- 2018 Land Rover Discovery Sport set for makeover – Autocar: Land Rover”s bestseller will be facelifted and a new hybrid line-up will include a plug-in The heavily revised Land Rover Discovery Sport, likely to be revealed by early 2019, will get a heavily updated platform to deliver much-improved ride comfort,…
- Buy them before we do: second-hand picks for 27 July – Autocar: Fancy a Volkswagen Golf R for £18,790? These are the top bargain buys we’ve spotted for sale The used car market is brimming with tasty deals, but sometimes it can be hard to tell the wise buys from the potential money pits. Fear not: our used car…
- What It’s Like Driving a $2 Million Mercedes in a Rally Race – Bloomberg:
- TMC Announces Results for June 2018 and January-June 2018 – Toyota: Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces its production, domestic sales, and export results, including those for subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Hino Motors, Ltd., for June 2018 and for January to June 2018.
- As Hyundai struggles, its labor union shows signs of softening – Reuters: When workers at South Korea’s Hyundai Motor went on strike last year, the stoppage lasted 24 days, triggered months of negotiations and netted them their smallest raise in nearly a decade.
- Musk and Tesla are not inseparable – FT: What would Tesla be without Elon Musk? This is not a rhetorical question. At about 3am in the Californian morning Thursday, the chief executive made an odd joke on Twitter, for someone running a company with a $52bn equity-market capitalisation:.
- Wall Street seizes on another front to bet against Tesla – FT: Trading in credit derivatives that will payout if Tesla defaults on its debts has surged over the past month, as investors seize on another front to bet against the electric car pioneer that has polarised Wall Street. Anxiety over whether the company …
- Why business has been speaking out against a no-deal Brexit – FT: Airbus was quickly followed by carmakers BMW and Jaguar Land Rover, which warned a hard Brexit could prompt them to close factories in the UK.
- Grab defends position in Uber deal to Singapore’s anti-monopoly watchdog – Reuters: Grab said on Friday it disagreed with the Singaporean anti-monopoly watchdog’s assessment that its takeover of Uber’s operations had harmed competition and called the commission’s suggested measure of removing exclusivity arrangements with drivers as…
- The Latest Female CEO in the Fortune 500 Breaks a New Barrier – Fortune: Agribusiness company Land O’Lakes has named Beth Ford its new president and CEO, appointing her to the top job at a challenging and tumultuous …
- New York City Council Moves to Cap Uber and Other For-Hire Vehicles – New York Times: New York City officials are moving to cap the number of vehicles driving for Uber and other ride-hailing services as part of an aggressive move to address mounting concerns that their explosive growth has led to worsening congestion and low driver wages.
