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FCA is ending production of the Dodge Grand Caravan this coming May and is cutting 1500 jobs at the plant in Windsor, Ontario. The Chrysler Voyager will be the last remaining version of FCA’s long-selling minivan as Dodge focuses its efforts on performance-oriented products. The Chrysler Pacifica continues in production. Minivans have steadily declined in […] More
Volkswagen has released some details for the Golf GTD, a diesel version of the eighth-generation Golf GTI. The GTD will have a 2.0-liter turbocharged diesel engine with 197 horsepower. The GTD is unlikely to make it to the U.S. market because Volkswagen’s last attempt to sell diesel-powered cars here ended in billions of dollars in […] More
Chevy produced the last Impala sedan yesterday at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan. GM announced in 2018 that the Impala would be ending production, along with several other passenger-car models including the Chevy Volt and Cruze, the Buick LaCrosse, and the Cadillac XTS and CT6. The Detroit-Hamtramck plant will now be retooled to produce electric […] More
Robert HradilGetty Images The Swiss government has banned gatherings of more than 1000 people until mid-March, leading to the announcement that the Geneva auto show is canceled. Europe’s most important show was scheduled to open next week. Announcement follows spread of Covid-19, or coronavirus, within Europe. The 2020 Geneva auto show has been canceled due […] More
NPR is reporting that a cargo ship filled with newly built vehicles, which had famously capsized in waters off Georgia last fall, will now be dismantled and carted away by barges. The Golden Ray, 656 feet long, had 4200 new cars on board and was headed from the Port of Brunswick to Baltimore. Why it […] More
Excuse us if you’ve already devoured the latest volume of the Journal of Transport & Health, but the March issue contains the results of a novel experiment that tested a cherished automotive stereotype. The study is entitled “Estimated Car Cost as a Predictor of Driver Yielding Behavior for Pedestrians,” but you can think of it […] More
James AndrewsGetty Images The Governors Highway Safety Administration calculates that there were 6590 pedestrian fatalities in 2019 after making a preliminary analysis of the available data. If that estimate holds when numbers are released later this year, that would mark a 60 percent increase in fatalities since 2009. Meanwhile, all other traffic deaths only rose […] More
Colin Anderson Productions Getty Images The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is using facial-recognition scans to identify potential undocumented immigrants without court or state oversight. Anyone with a Maryland license is now open to an ICE search, the Washington Post is reporting. Unchecked access to these types of databases has been abused before […] More
