Category: Safety

Editor’s Note: In this week’s Rant, we reintroduce our infamous AE Brand Image Meter, Peter’s no-holds-barred assessment of most of the brands currently doing business in the auto industry. (Yes, some are left out...

Editor’s Note: In this week’s Rant, Peter discusses how our individual and collective experiences with cars has everything to do with who we are, and how this nation was transformed with a wandering spirit that...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. What used to be known as the “What have you done for me lately?” sobriquet in this business – and in contemporary life – has now transitioned to the more immediate “Everything all the time!”...

Editor’s Note: In this week’s Rant, Peter discusses the absurdity of naming in this new EV era. In On The Table, we get a look at the Ram Evolution BEV Concept, as well as BMW Group’s ‘vision’ as...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. I have used that word “tumultuous” to describe this business for more than half a decade, and there’s no reason to stop now, because the chaos continues. The auto industry – along with every other...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. When I last visited this theme a couple of years ago, the year 2030 was upon us. As I stepped out into the darkness in the throes of another sleepless night, I found myself wandering around in a...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. As longtime readers well know, the Chevrolet Corvette has played an inexorable role in my ongoing car addiction. I’ve been honored to have experienced some of the most famous and spectacular...

Editor’s Note: In this week’s column, Peter reminds us of a few things, because it seems that some out there still have a tendency to forget. In On The Table, we look at Giorgetto Giugiaro’s interesting connection to...

Editor’s Note: In this week’s column, Peter presents an unexpected way to look at being thankful. In On The Table, we remind everyone that no car company in the world is more skilled at extracting as much ca$h-ola as...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. Today’s column will be, well, a little different and unexpected, because as long as we’re living in this automotive Twilight Zone between the end of the ICE era and the dawn of the BEV era, things...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. Having been immersed in the swirling maelstrom that defines this auto business and witnessed here at AE for going on 24 years now, I have arrived at some fundamental truths. Some will be unpopular...