Car manufacturers - Topics

Manufacturers leave endurance racing the moment the marketing budget moves elsewhere How did the moving assembly line change who could own a car? Why did car makers take over the coachbuilders? Concept to production: what gets watered down first? Why whole national economies are built around making cars QNX versus Android Automotive versus Linux: why do automakers pick one over another? What does it cost an automaker to build one show car? Renault-Nissan and other alliances: why not just merge? What does it actually cost to build a new auto factory? Why automakers keep killing the wagon in the US What would break first if car production stopped for a year How automakers count factory CO2 and where the accounting gets creative Why production cars end up with wider panel gaps than the show car Why are Chinese automakers building plants in Thailand and Brazil instead of shipping cars? How does an automaker decide a concept is worth producing? How often a model gets facelifted and what really changes Badge engineering: one car many names and which one to pick Why does a factory running at 70 percent capacity mean layoffs? What happens to my infotainment system when the automaker shuts down its connected services? Why car designers still sculpt full-size clay models Auto show press days are a different event from the public weekend Balance of Performance exists so a slower car can still win Le Mans How a model cycle runs from launch to replacement Why a facelift costs almost as much as a new front end to design Why do car plants idle for weeks the moment sales slow down? Why the supply chain of a new car begins at a mine One missing chip and the whole assembly line stops: how does just-in-time go so wrong? Concept cars that previewed a powertrain their maker never built Why identical cars get different engines in different countries Why some model names last fifty years and others die in three Tesla gigafactories vs old assembly lines: what is really different? Why do carmakers kill a model that still sells?