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VANCE, Alabama — The outcome of a vote on Friday by workers at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama will be a key referendum on whether the United Auto Workers can maintain momentum in the historically anti-union South.
Honda remains committed to hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, but the market for those vehicles remains limited. So Honda is looking at other uses for fuel cells — including commercial trucks.
If it feels like Ford issues a recall every other day, that's because it nearly does. The folks at Carscoops brought our attention to the latest, a recall of the 2024 F-150 over incorrect fasteners used in the steering system that could lead a steering failure. It only potentially affects a small number of trucks, 385, but this is Ford's 25th recall issued in 2024 per data from the Department of Transportation.
Unlike other automakers, Toyota hasn't rushed to jump on the EV bandwagon. It has taken shy steps toward pure electric vehicles, deciding instead to focus on hybrids. Chairman Akio Toyoda believes pure EVs will never exceed a 30-percent market share, so a zero-emission future is still very much uncertain. However, the Japanese brand has been gradually expanding its no-ICE lineup in recent times, with a pickup now confirmed for 2025.
Mitsubishi might be adding an off-road minivan to its aging lineup. A report published Thursday by Automotive News claims the Japanese automaker is readying a production version of the D.X Concept it revealed last October. It won’t arrive until later in the decade, and it’s one of two rugged vehicles the automaker reportedly showed with its new Momentum 2030 plan presented to North American dealers this week.
Tesla made headlines late last year when it launched the Cybertruck. The automaker touted the pickup's performance chops, with CEO Elon Musk claiming that a Cybertruck towing a Porsche 911 was quicker in a quarter-mile drag race than an actual 911. The company released a video allegedly verifying the claim, but new proof reveals that Tesla wasn't candid about the results.
If you haven't been paying attention, you may be surprised to hear that Mitsubishi has been doing fairly well in the United States over the last several years. Once a mid-major (to borrow a college athletics term) program here in the States, the automaker's stagnating lineup and lack of vehicles with clear desirability — once you got past the hardcore Lancer Evolution series, at least — led to declining sales figures through the 2000s. The brand's more recent resurgence, led by the latest Mitsubishi Outlander and Outlander PHEV, which it co-developed with fellow Japanese partner Nissan, first began around the year 2018, says Mitsubishi North America President and CEO Mark Chaffin. «Momentum 2030 will build on that, setting the stage for new powertrains and vehicles being introduced, new dealerships being opened, and new technologies being developed to make the shopping and ownership experience faster, easier and more enjoyable.»
A dramatic collision between a pickup that veered into opposing traffic and a semi truck on Louisville's George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge ended in near tragedy on March 1, when the semi's cab and the driver inside were left dangling helplessly over the Ohio River. Thankfully, authorities reacted swiftly to save the driver, and now the individual behind the wheel of the pickup truck is in court, having been charged for his role in the incident. As a result, we have new footage from the semi's dash cam—and it's harrowing, to say the least.