This seems to be an escalation to the aggressive negotiations. The United Auto Workers union and American Big Three automakers are still at an impasse on labor negotiations almost a week after the first round of strikes. In reaction to the shutdowns, GM and Stellantis both have announced layoffs, the former going much deeper than the latter. This could be a preview of what’s to come in the near future. Is Mary Barra really worth $29 million a year? General Motors announced on September 20 it’s idling the Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City and laying off most of the 2,000 workers who cover two shifts at…
Author: Steven Symes
Steven Symes
Steven has loved all things on wheels from an early age. He started off admiring Corvettes and Porsches, but his tastes have grown to include a variety of everything, from classic to modern vehicles.
Leave your gun unsecured in your car? Straight to the gulag! Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah, Georgia is sick of gun violence in his city, so he’s going after what he views as one source of the problem: people who have their firearms stolen from their car. If that sounds off to you, you’re not alone. But Mayor Johnson argues it’s a big source for “illegal firearms,” which fuel violence in Savannah and elsewhere in the state. Learn how police held an innocent family in a Dodge Charger at gunpoint here. As detailed out in a report from local newspaper Savannah Now, the mayor plans to introduce an ordinance…
For the first time ever, the union is striking on all three major American automakers at once. The threat UAW has been making for weeks is becoming reality as approximately 13,000 union members stopped working the production lines at three different factories starting September 15. Just how this will affect the prices of new and used cars remains to be seen, but many are bracing for the worst. Learn why the UAW strike could trigger a recession. Image via GM UAW members stopped assembling vehicles at the GM’s Wentzville Assembly in Missouri where the Chevy Colorado and Express are made along with the GMC Canyon and Savana,…
The Mozilla Foundation found about half of automakers will hand over your private data to authorities without a warrant. And it gets even worse. Are you driving some old hooptie that doesn’t even have one of those cool touchscreens dominating the center stack of your dash? Do you wish you had onboard WiFi to smooth out those data blind spots as you’re driving through certain spots in your hometown? Well, you might not realize it, but your older car is protecting your privacy better than if you had a shiny new ride like your neighbor’s. This has been confirmed yet again, this time by the Mozilla Foundation.…
How else will we escape the rich people and hippies trapped in the Nevada mud? Unless you’ve been living in a cabin in a remote corner of North Dakota and don’t have Starlink internet, you already know about the whole Burning Man disaster recently. For people not that familiar with the desert, learning that just a little bit of rain caused such a mess of mud seems amusing if not downright fictionalized, but the reality is such conditions can rapidly become next to impassable. That’s why seeing a Ram TRX pulling a good-sized camper, not to mention a bed loaded up with stuff, perfectly demonstrates why we…
You might not want to park the Tesla in the garage. Lately, every time there’s a hurricane that rips through Florida, a few days afterward, there’s a wave of electric car fires. Firefighters have once again sounded the alarm after Idalia passed through the Sunshine State since, apparently, a lot of people haven’t heard about the risk. Are electric cars ideal for natural disasters? The problem is EVs and salt water just don’t mix well. Days after being flooded by salt water, Teslas and other electric cars can spontaneously combust. Obviously, this is especially concerning if the vehicle is sitting inside a garage or other structure, even…
Do you want these in your hometown? Attitudes toward self-driving cars are rolling towards a slow boil in San Francisco as public opinion on them continues to sour. There have been a number of problems with the vehicles, leading some residents to try disabling them through simple, non-destructive methods. But California is opening the way for even more on public streets and residents’ frustration risks boiling over. Man goes on a violent rampage in a luxury SUV. While we’ve focused on the many safety issues presented by vehicles which supposedly would be impeccable in that area, a new report from Gulf News sheds a light on other areas of deep concern…
This is why you don’t run from the cops on a sport bike. Normally we’d expect a police chase involving a Suzuki Hayabusa to last a few seconds before the rider and bike become a spec on the distant horizon. But this suspect who didn’t want to pull over for Georgia State Police either is new to riding or didn’t realize the full capability of the motorcycle. Either way, he paid dearly both for running and not running fast enough. Learn about the motorcyclist rocketing to fame on YouTube here. Somehow this chase becomes a cat and mouse game, probably because some people just shouldn’t ride crazy-fast sport bikes.…
The automaker warns the entire industry could face catastrophic financial pain. In a turn of events some find shocking, General Motors has sounded the alarm on the Biden administration’s vehicle fuel economy rules proposal, claiming it could cost automakers hundreds of billions of dollars in penalties. However, as Reuters has reported, Biden officials claim GM is blowing things well out of proportion. Are your days of owning a car numbered? According to Reuters, GM executive David Strickland had a meeting on July 17 with White House Office of Management and Budget officials to talk about the federal government’s proposed fuel economy regulations. That visit doesn’t seem to…
He got busted in a small town! Most people wouldn’t dare drive their Tesla or other EV into one of the most remote corners of Montana, but that’s exactly what Chad Lauterbach and his girlfriend, Allis Markham, both of Los Angeles, California, did recently. Lauterbach, a taxidermist of apparently national renown, made the drive to southeastern Montana in a Tesla to volunteer at the 400-person town’s dinosaur museum, something he’d done in the past but with a different vehicle. Learn how a report claims Tesla is fudging its driving range claims here. Normally, Lauterbach drives an ’89 Land Cruiser, a respectable off-roader that doesn’t get good gas…