America ‘Shooting Itself In the Foot’ With Mexico Tariffs
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, November 27, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the …
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VinFast Is Still Trying This, Huh?
Photo: VinFast Remember when VinFast launched the VF8 in the U.S., to universal acclaim and absolutely zero problems? Well, the company has decided to replicate that stunning success by beginning …
VinFast Ready To Burn Through Another $2.1 Billion Of Its Founder’s Money
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, November 13, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the …
Consumer Reports Trashes VinFast VF8 In First Review
When we first drove the VinFast VF8, we weren’t impressed. Our headline said it was “simply not ready for America,” and the criticism only got worse from there. VinFast clearly …
VinFast Gets $1 Billion Lifeline From Emirati Company
Photo: Roberto Machado Noa/UCG/Universal Images Group (Getty Images) VinFast is getting a huge cash infusion from an investment group led by Emirates Driving Co., a UAE-based driver education company, to …
VinFast Has Fewer Than 200 Cars For Sale In The U.S.
Remember when some Wall Street bozos thought VinFast, maker of one of the worst-reviewed cars, was worth more than America’s Big Three automakers combined? It wasn’t all that long ago …
‘Disaster Has Arrived’ At Stellantis As Dealers Call Out Damage Done To Brands
Good morning! It’s Friday, September 13, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
Car Companies To Try Bold New Strategy Of Building EVs People Can Actually Afford
Electric vehicles aren’t cheap yet. I mean, to be fair, no cars are cheap anymore with an average transaction price above $48,000, but now “luxury” EV makers looking to capitalize …
What’s The Worst Car You’ve Ever Driven?
Photo: VinFast Cars are fun. Not everyone agrees, but those people probably aren’t reading a car site anyway. At least they can be fun. Let’s just say I enjoyed myself …
North Carolina Spent Nearly $96 Million On VinFast Factory That May Never Happen
North Carolina cut a deal with VinFast in 2022 to provide one of the largest incentives packages in state history to coax Vietnamese electric automaker VinFast to build its U.S. …