Leo Michael Cartoons - Q1 2022

GM is expected to end production of the Chevy Trax and Buick Encore baby crossovers in August.

Ford and its dealer council will launch "Electric University" to give salespeople, service technicians and parts department staffers a crash course on all things EV. It will not have a basketball team.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is another reminder of how gasoline prices are at the mercy of global events.

Protesters, who have issues with vaccine and mask mandates, and others who want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down, blocked access to the Ambassador Bridge for six days this month, costing the North American auto industry hundreds of millions of dollars in lost production and wages.

U.S. President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged Tesla's role in U.S. electric vehicle manufacturing on Tuesday, after CEO Elon Musk repeatedly complained about being ignored.

The more vehicles are governed by software and over-the-air updates, the more glitches are possible.

More than 5,000 fake employers have appeared on auto loan applications over nearly three years, according to the fraud screening firm Point Predictive.

The 2022 North American International Auto Show will take place in both Detroit's Huntington Place convention center and around downtown Detroit on Sept. 14-25.

Heavy demand for the Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck is good news for the automaker. But Ford now worries that the markups of up to $30,000 some retailers are demanding could be harmful.

Automakers seem to have collectively moved on to a new measuring contest with which to extol their own virtues: third-row real estate.

While the chip shortage is expected to continue to squeeze inventories, dealership profitability is expected to keep rising in 2022.