Ohio Senator J.D. Vance introduced a bill during the 1st session of the 118th Congress that would, if passed, cost American taxpayers billions of dollars, run in the face of climate change, and would sell all of us out to the oil and gas industry. Vance, once a critic of Trump’s firebrand “America’s Hitler” image, … Read more
Lotus Beer Co, the Geelong craft beer company behind Valhalla Taproom and Valhalla Brewhall, has entered voluntary administration. Company founder Scott Hunt said skyrocketing operational costs and a dramatic down-tick in demand were behind the move. Scott Andersen and Matthew Kucianski from insolvency firm Worrells were appointed as the administrators on Monday. Know the news … Read more
New Delhi: Two-wheeler sales in India are expected to grow around 6-8 per cent this fiscal and could reach the peak level of 2018-19 either in the fourth quarter or the beginning of next financial year, a top official of Bajaj Auto said on Tuesday. The rising commodity prices, specially natural rubber, have forced the … Read more
Photo: Lcaa9 / Wikimedia Commons Tesla reversed its policy prohibiting Cybertruck resales in direct response to the difficulties of a single Salt Lake City man who couldn’t fit the angular electric pickup in his parking space. Blaine Raddon, a retired CEO, happily reserved a Cybertruck after watching the vehicle’s launch online. However, Raddon and his … Read more
Photo: Jaguar Walk into a Jaguar dealer today and you’ll have your pick of a sedan, a sports car, an EV or two crossovers. It’s not the biggest lineup in the industry, but at least it’s a lineup. Soon, though, that won’t be the case, as Jaguar plans to kill off every single car it … Read more
Investment giant BlackRock is pulling an ad that included Thomas Crooks, the gunman who shot at Donald Trump, injuring the former president and killing an attendee at a rally near Pittsburgh on Saturday. “In 2022, we ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School, in which several unpaid students briefly appeared in … Read more
Image: Scott Olson (Getty Images) The cyberattack targeting the company that handles the financial transaction side of car buying for some 15,000 car dealers in the U.S. finally ended thanks, almost certainly to a paid ransom. Tesla, Just Like You, Lost a Ton of Money on Bitcoin in 2022 According to sources who spoke with … Read more
Four Australian banks will cough up nearly $30 million in refund after a review by the Federal corporate watchdog revealed they had charged high fees to customers who could least afford it. A new report from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission revealed ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, as well as mid-tier Bendigo and Adelaide Bank … Read more
New vehicle dealer inventory once again climbed in June, with 2.96 million vehicles just sitting on lots. That works out to about a 76-day supply, and it’s up from 2.89 million vehicles a month earlier. It’s also a million more vehicles than where it was at the same time last year – 1.95 million. Jalopinions … Read more
Cadillac Escalade’s Bulgari ClockImage: Cadillac Automakers will often team up with non- automotive companies for things like special edition cars, merch, etc. Sometimes the partnerships make sense. Remember Subaru’s L.L. Bean editions or Ford’s Eddie Bauer Explorers and Expeditions? Other times they come across as trying too hard—take Cadillac’s Bulgari partnership. Tom Pelphrey Will Never … Read more
