Industry News
BMW is in advanced talks with the European Commission about a potential minimum pricing mechanism to replace EU tariffs on its China-made Mini battery-electric vehicles. The discussions involve setting a minimum import price that would address EU concerns over...
By DCB Editorial
February 26, 2026
What we’re seeing with Aston Martin is a textbook case of a corporation trying to reconcile profit expectations with global market pressures. They’re announcing up to 20% job cuts from a workforce of around 3,000, aiming to...
By Brian Denton
February 25, 2026
A company in distress often begins by rearranging its own mirrors, hoping the reflection will look healthier than the balance sheet. That is where Aston Martin now finds itself. Chairman Lawrence Stroll, the world’s poorest billionaire, presiding over...
By Anthony Henson
February 23, 2026
Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley has reportedly discussed with officials in the Trump Administration a potential strategy for handling the eventual arrival of Chinese automakers in the U.S. market. Although a 100% tariff on Chinese-built vehicles — introduced under Joe...
By DCB Editorial
February 17, 2026
There is a kind of quiet confession in the decision by sterile corporate monolith Stellantis to resurrect diesel engines across Europe. Not a press-conference confession. Not the public language of retreat. But the subdued, bureaucratic admission that...
By Anthony Henson
February 16, 2026
The Trump administration’s revocation of the 2009 endangerment finding is not merely a bureaucratic maneuver—it is an assault on reason itself, an ideological act that denies the evidence of a world in peril. For more than a...
By Anthony Henson
February 13, 2026