Industry News
Canada has abandoned its strategy of accommodation and answered Donald Trump’s latest tariffs with retaliation. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced counter-tariffs worth roughly C$20 billion in annual U.S. imports, matching the value of the new...
By Anthony Henson
August 26, 2026
Honda is reconsidering plans for an eighth assembly plant in North America, with uncertainty over the future of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) threatening to influence the Japanese automaker’s next major investment. Honda Executive Vice...
By Chris Ward
August 26, 2026
Volkswagen workers are confronting a new wave of uncertainty as management prepares to impose sweeping cost cuts on one of Germany’s most important industrial employers. CEO Oliver Blume has warned employees that Volkswagen’s position is...
By DCB Editorial
August 24, 2026
McLaren is enjoying a surge in demand in the US, and that success could lead to a major expansion of its American retail network. The British supercar maker, which returned to the road-car market with...
By DCB Editorial
August 18, 2026
There is some logic to Jaguar Land Rover’s proposed partnership with Stellantis. JLR wants to build Defender-branded vehicles in America without the enormous expense of creating its own manufacturing infrastructure. Stellantis already has the factories,...
By Brian Denton
August 18, 2026
Tesla has won. The workers have not. After nearly three years, Sweden’s longest and most bitter confrontation with the electric-car giant is coming to an end. The IF Metall union has called off its strike,...
By Anthony Henson
August 17, 2026