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Analysis: Will Cars Be “The Cigarette Of The Future”?
TTAC’s forays into areas like law, politics and economics are not everyone’s cup of tea, but they do matter. The dry, dense topics like regulation and financial topics have real implications for car...
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Tesla Dodges A Legislative Bullet
A proposed law that would have eliminated Tesla’s ability to sell cars in New York state has died on the vine, after lawmakers adjourned their legislative session without taking any action on the...
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American Sanctions Forced Renault Out Of Iran
Following PSA’s exit from Iran last year, Renault is the latest French car maker to leave the Middle Eastern country, thanks to American derived sanctions. La Tribune reports that Renault will stand...
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$57 Million Chicago Ford Dealership Delayed As Aldermen Play Politics
FMG Holdings, which operates a number of car dealerships in western Michigan under the name of Fox Motors, had planned on spending $57 million turning an abandoned industrial site on Chicago’s North...
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Iran’s Imported Chevrolet Camaros Raise Questions About GM’s Dealings With...
An obscure story in the Azerbaijani press this past summer may be the tip of a much larger iceberg involving General Motors, PSA Peugeot Citroen and the Western World’s current bete noir: the Iranian...
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Scrambling the Politics of Mass Transit in San Francisco
Image from Twitter @craigsfrost Positively or negatively, mass transit is often viewed as a social leveler. Rich and poor alike ride the subway in New York, London and Berlin. Atlantans of all...
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UAW, VW Works Council Regrouping Under Voting Fallout
Following the 712 – 629 decision against representation by the United Auto Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., the union may be forced to throw in the towel on foreign-owned auto...
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Foxx, Obama Administration Urge Congress To Act On Funding Highway Trust
With 112,000 infrastructure projects and 700,000 jobs at stake, the Obama administration and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx are both urging Congress find a way to provide funding to the...
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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Discuss Ethanol In Iowa
A handful of Republican presidential hopefuls converged upon Iowa last weekend to discuss the pros and cons of ethanol. Autoblog reports U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, former governors Mike Huckabee of...
View ArticleNews Round-up: Jag Going Racing, Saab Has a Plan, Teslas Are Expensive
This is the new News Round-up where we cover all the things you should know that may or may not deserve a headline on their own (or we may have simply run out of time to cover them). It’s similar to...
View ArticleAudi Capitalizes on Presidential Debate Viewership with Action-packed Ad
To disenfranchised voters, sitting through the first of the presidential debates tonight will be akin to laying back in a 19th century dentist’s chair. Open wide. Politics (mostly) aside, Audi saw the...
View ArticleWhy Is Trump Bashing Ford, Praising Caterpillar as Both Send Jobs to Mexico?
So, there’s an election on, and a certain candidate has made some high-profile, sometimes inflammatory comments about American manufacturing and jobs being sent south of the Rio Grande. That person’s...
View ArticleWikileaks: GM CEO Mary Barra Was Shortlisted by Clinton for VP Nomination
General Motors CEO Mary Barra was under consideration to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate. Barra’s name, along with the names of 39 other candidates for the vice presidency, were found in a hacked...
View ArticleWould You Buy a Car from This Politician?
It’s morning in America. Just before noon Eastern Time, actually. If decades of Gallup polling is correct, and we’re inclined to believe it is, car salespeople and members of Congress have among the...
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Bailout Watch 372: The Man Who Would Be Czar
Point three of Barack Obama's ethics pledge to the American people is that "no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and...
View ArticleUpdate: Details of US Car Scrappage Scheme Emerge
In a follow up to E. Niedermeyer’s previous post, details have emerged about the scheme to give rebates to buyers who trade “clunkers” for new, fuel-efficient vehicles. FT.com (Financial Times) reports...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: McCain Calls Out Chrysler Edition
The Detroit News reports that Senator John McCain (remember him?) has declared Chrysler unlikely to survive. Mr McCain, who was serving as grand marshal of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at the...
View ArticleAsk The Best And Brightest: What Are The Most Important Car-Related Political...
As I noted yesterday, the intersection of automobiles and politics is a difficult area of analysis. In the United States, where motorists don’t face the daily challenges they do in Russia, discussions...
View ArticlePolitics Intrude On UAW, Detroit Auto Show
Thanks to the unionization of the US auto industry, its politics (and accordingly, those of the state of Michigan) tend to be of the center-left persuasion. This tendency was doubtless aggravated over...
View ArticleTrade War Watch 13: Pedal Politics
Yesterday, a strange love-fest between U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos and Japan’s transport minister Seiji Maehara ensued. After their meeting in Tokyo, as reported by the Nikkei, the ambassador...
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