Category: Automotive Articles

Softing Automotive

Discover out every part you’ll want to learn about tire pressure to keep your automotive working easily and safely.

I connected a big card laminated with the names and phone numbers of a number of dog associates that I knew may come get my canines if I had been in an accident on the crate I hold in the automobile. I also leave a leash on my canine while they’re within the crate I’ve one canine that could be very freaky and can be exhausting to catch and would possibly make it easier for someone to nab him if he got out after an accident. Hope an accident does not happen but higher protected than sorry.

I suppose back to my first real vehicles and motorbikes. How I used to sit down and have a look at the curves of the extractors, imagining the graceful stream of burning exhaust gases. …

Continue reading

Ford halts orders for Focus, Fiesta amid delivery backlogs

“We closed free order availability for our dealers on the Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta, among others, some time ago,” the spokesman said. “However, we are offering available production volume to our dealers in the form of pre-specified units based on customer demand.”

He added this is Ford’s way of ensuring that customer orders can be fulfilled, and that available production capacity can be used in the best possible way.

Markus Thal, the head of the works council in at Ford’s factory in Saarlouis, Germany, which builds the Focus, confirmed the unusual measure and said the orders currently being received would already run into 2023. He said it would not currently be possible to deliver a Focus before next spring.

According to employee representatives, Ford now expects annual production of only 117,000 Focus cars for the current year, down from 195,000 units originally planned.

For 2023, around 143,000 units are

Continue reading

EV manufacturers rank behind other premium brands in customer service, survey finds

Electric vehicle-only automakers are trailing other premium brands in shopping experience satisfaction, a report out Monday from retail service tracker Pied Piper found.

The Pied Piper Prospect Satisfaction Index, or PSI, uses about 70 best-practice behaviors to measure retail service performance of automakers. These include in-person and Web-response categories, making up 60 percent and 40 percent of a brand’s score, respectively, and included scores for sales person attentiveness, availability of finance options and how quickly the dealership responded to an online inquiry. Lack of inventory did not play a factor.

In cases where a brand did not have physical dealerships, such as Rivian, its in-person score was determined by telephonic communication. The survey also used a different set of factors to evaluate electric-only automakers because of different sales practices compared with those of with traditional automakers.

In Pied Piper’s latest survey of 25 premium brands, all four electric-exclusive brands included

Continue reading

UAW federal monitor: Union struggling to reset, root out corruption

The UAW’s court-appointed monitor on Tuesday said union leaders have been so uncooperative in efforts to root out corruption — including in 19 open investigations — that Department of Justice officials in March were called in to intervene over potential violations of the union’s consent decree.

A new report by the office of monitor Neil Barofsky revealed not only an increase in open investigations, previously at 15, but described a monthslong effort by the UAW to obstruct and interfere with its investigations during which union leaders allegedly concealed evidence and excluded the monitor’s office from key International Executive Board meetings.

Barofsky’s office in late March called a meeting with UAW President Ray Curry and US Attorney Dawn Ison to discuss the problems, during which Curry was said to have committed to “a total reset” in relations with the monitor.

While the monitor’s office says it has seen some improvement in

Continue reading

Elon Musk says Tesla prices are ’embarrassing’ due to supply issues and strong demand

Musk said he expects Tesla to begin delivering its much anticipated Cybertruck pickup by the middle of 2023, adding to Texas factory production. He forecast output at Texas and Berlin at 5,000 vehicles a week by the end of this year or early next year, and 10,000 a week by the end of 2023.

In its second-quarter shareholder letter, Tesla revised installed capacity numbers for its plants upward, with Fremont rising to 650,000, Shanghai rising to about 750,000, Berlin at 250,000 and Austin at 250,000. In Tesla’s first-quarter earnings letter, it had listed Fremont as 600,000, Shanghai as 450,000 and Berlin and Austin as “early ramp.”

In second-quarter financial results, the EV maker posted an adjusted profit of $2.27 per share vs. analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.81.

Its automotive gross margin fell to 27.9 percent, down from a year earlier and the preceding quarter, amid inflationary pressure.

Total revenue fell

Continue reading