2021 Yearbook

In 2021 Tesla became a trillion-dollar company, public dealership groups bought up stores like early-pandemic toilet paper and we got used to saying "Stellantis." And then there's the global microchip shortage.

The automotive world lost a number of people in 2021 who spent their careers taking the industry to new levels. Here are some of them.

We look back a unforgettable 2021 while hoping for pandemic-free days ahead in 2022.

Chips, cars and workers were all in short supply, but the cartoons kept right on coming.