Moving forward — and backward
A century ago, my grandmother Mary Lienert knew firsthand about freedom of mobility — both the upside and the downside. The purchase of a family automobile confined, rather than freed this young Nebraska farm wife, who never learned to drive. Before then, my father Bob Lienert wrote in a 1979 essay, my grandmother’s principal mode of…
A great Leapmotor forward? Ask Stellantis
Is the new Leapmotor B10 a sneak peek at the future of electric vehicles in North America? Or is it simply another warning shot in an ongoing series of trade skirmishes between China and a number of key overseas markets? Unveiled October 14 at the Paris auto show and targeted at global markets in 2025,…
And Binguo was its name, oh . . .
I have often smiled at Asian automakers’ attempts to create “English-sounding” names for their vehicles. Who wouldn’t grin to see the Suzuki Every Joypop or the Isuzu Giga Light Dump? The Japanese, however, have been nudged aside by the Chinese when it comes to christening cars. In a previous column, I mentioned two recent favorites:…
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