Ram 2500/3500 Heavy Duty trucks rustle up more luxury with Rodeo Edition

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: RAM,Truck It’s the Laramie Longhorn and beyond. Continue reading Ram 2500/3500 Heavy Duty trucks rustle up more luxury with Rodeo Edition Ram 2500/3500 Heavy Duty trucks rustle up more luxury with Rodeo Edition originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms […]

Lowe’s and Home Depot have emergency command centers monitoring Florence and thousands of trucks loaded and ready to go to stores in the storm’s path (HD, LOW)

Ken Blevins/The Star-News via AP Hurricane Florence has people turning to local hardware and supply stores like Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Ace for assistance that the government can’t necessarily provide. These outlets have emergency command centers and meteorologists on duty. After 2017’s brutal hurricane season, Home Depot had revenue of more than $ 100 billion, […]

Ram introduces Harvest Edition for chassis cab trucks

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: RAM,Truck,Commercial Vehicles Ram offers a color-themed Harvest Edition for 2018 Ram 3500, 4500 and 5500 Chassis Cab models, available in all four-door Crew Cab and two-door Regular Cab configurations. Continue reading Ram introduces Harvest Edition for chassis cab trucks Ram introduces Harvest Edition for chassis cab trucks originally […]

U.S. Auto Sales: SUVs and Trucks Ruled the Roost in August

For marques flush with crossovers, SUVs, and trucks, August held some pleasant news. Any company whose portfolio is devoid of product (or filled with aging machinery) in those segments found their balance sheet wanting. Evidence of this? SUV-anemic brands such as Genesis are falling off the proverbial cliff while Subaru is outselling the likes of […]

America’s cars and trucks are getting older

Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters The average age rose in all vehicle types between 2009 and 2017. The difference in average vehicle-age between low-income households and high-income households has narrowed since 2009. Rising average age of vehicles translated into lost sales for automakers. When I entered the auto industry in 1985, there was a lot of hand-wringing about […]

Uber to stop developing self-driving trucks

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Etc.,Truck,Autonomous,Commercial Vehicles It has already been hauling freight, but will focus on autonomous cars only. Continue reading Uber to stop developing self-driving trucks Uber to stop developing self-driving trucks originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Jul 2018 18:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. […]

This V2V is Volvo to Volvo: Cars, trucks to share traffic caution data

Volvo Cars and Volvo Trucks are separate companies, and have been for almost 20 years. The separation occurred in 1999, when Volvo Group sold its car manufacturing business to Ford, which in turn sold Volvo Cars to Geely in 2010. But despite being separate, the vehicle makers share a name, and now they will also […]

Anheuser-Busch just bought 800 fuel cell Nikola trucks

Enlarge / A mockup of a Nikola truck with the Anheuser-Busch logo. (credit: Anheuser-Busch) On a quarterly financial call Wednesday afternoon, Tesla CEO Elon Musk briefly spoke about a new lawsuit filed by Nikola Motor Company, a Salt Lake City-based hydrogen fuel cell truck startup. Musk said it was a “laughable lawsuit from some company […]

Sunday Drive: Everybody poops, and nearly everybody buys trucks and SUVs

The hot topic this past week was Ford’s revelation that it plans to jettison traditional passenger cars — Fiesta, Focus, Fusion and Taurus — in the U.S. to concentrate on bread-and-butter trucks and crossover/SUVs. Every post we’ve had on the topic has generated a ton of comments from readers, most of whom seem to think […]