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That’s Interesting
✓RANDOM QUOTE:
“WE’VE HAD DOWN SHIFTS EVERY WEEK SINCE JANUARY, AND WE HAVE TWO DOWN
WEEKS IN THE SUMMER, AND TWO MORE DOWN WEEKS SCHEDULED IN SEPTEMBER.
WE COULD SEE THAT SALES OF THE 5.0L WERE DROPPING.”
—UNIFOR LOCAL 200 PRESIDENT JOHN D’AGNOLO, TO AUTOMOTIVE NEWS ABOUT THE LACK OF DEMAND FOR THE 5.0L
IN THE FORD F-SERIES AND HOW IN RESPONSE FORD WILL REDUCE TO TWO SHIFTS AT ITS ESSEX ENGINE PLANT IN CANADA The Bondurant School of High
Performance Driving in Arizona
is back among the living after a
bankruptcy redo, and the school
will continue with Dodge as a part-
ner—so much so, it’ll retain the
title of Official Performance Driving
School of Dodge//SRT. Bring a Trailer has expanded
beyond the $99 self-service
auction offering, with levels called
Plus, White Glove (concierge), and
Premium, which is for the high-
value listings. A pro theft ring is what cops
are saying was responsible for
a Chevy dealership in Louisiana
having 124 tires and wheels stolen
off Chevy vehicles, equaling more
than $100,000. All-electric classic Ford Bronco
lives. There will be 150 first edi-
tions of the ZeroLabs Bronc with a
190-mile range and carbon-fiber
construction. Pricing? At this point
it’s still under wraps, but their
FAQs posed the question, “Are
they expensive?” to which they
replied to themselves, “Yes.” They
added, “We expect our customer
has owned classic vehicles in the
past and done their homework
knowing pricing for a premium
Ford Bronco restoration can run
from $160,000-$300,000. Our
vehicles are very different, and wenext 20 years to have a carbon-
neutral passenger-vehicle fleet
and for hybrids and EVs to make
up more than 50 percent of its
car sales by 2030. ’19 Ram Rebel? You were
named Texas Motor Press
Association’s Texas Off-road
Truck of the Year. While we’re at the Texas Off-
road Invitational, the ’20 Kia
Telluride won first place in the
SUV category. Ram’s new marketing cam-
paign: “On to bigger things.” Isn’t
that by definition what you mean
when you say, “Oh well”? One of the new inductees into
the SEMA Hall of Fame is Bob
Chandler, the man behind Big-
foot—the Ford F-250 monster
truck that started it all. Live in a city with a lot of con-
gestion? Burger King may bring its
Traffic Jam Whopper to you, a ser-
vice that will deliver directly to your
vehicle while you’re sitting in traffic.
It launched in Mexico City. We’re only two news items in,
and it’s already time to dry heave:
netquote.com did a swab test, and
we all know those rarely end well.
This involved swabbing surfaces
in rideshare vehicles, rental cars,
and cabs. Rideshares turned
out to have the highest levels of
bacteria—by a lot. Toilets are less
bacteria-laden. As you’d probably
guess, things like seatbelts and
window buttons were repulsive.
The night is indeed dark and full of
terrors. But daytime, too. GMC stopped being stingy
with the Duramax diesel and has
expanded availability of the 3.0L
and 10-speed auto and CarbonPro
carbon-fiber bed for the ’20 Sierra- But at the same time, is GM’s
EPA certification taking so long that
the diesel-Silverado availability is on
hold? And P.S. The ’20 Silverado
has more 6.2L V-8 availability, too.
Ambition2039—not a future
Madonna tour, but rather the name
of the Mercedes-Benz plan for theexpect the first-edition ZeroLabs
production models to be within
10-15 percent of the premium
Ford Bronco restoration market,
depending on options.” Go to
zerolabs.com to learn more—
even if that answer doesn’t work
for you. If you’re keen on having your
Amazon Prime packages deliv-
ered to your vehicle without you
in it, then know that Ford has
signed on for Key by Amazon.
It’s supposed to put your mind at
ease knowing that your package
is safe. Uber and the University of
South Carolina created the na-
tionwide Campus Safety Initiative
in response to a fake-driver situa-
tion in South Carolina that ended
in murder. The app will remind
riders about such things as how
to confirm it’s the right car arriv-
ing to pick them up.