The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating 380 reports that claim that 2013 to 2016 model-year Ram 1500 pick-up trucks are suffering an intermittent or complete loss of power steering. Only three of the reports submitted to the federal agency involved crashes. A recall could affect 1.1…
Good morning! It’s Friday, July 21, 2023 and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
It wasn’t so long ago that Stellantis, that astronomical name to which we’ve all grown accustomed, was two separate companies: Fiat-Chrysler and Peugeot. In merging the Italian-American conglomerate with the French one, Stellantis formed as a sort of nation-agnostic automaker based financially in Amsterdam, but…
We don’t talk about Fiat enough, but that’s not our fault. Right now, the brand’s entire American slate consists of the Fiat 500X, which is staring death in the face, and all we’re certain to receive in the next couple of years is the new electric 500. The Fiat Topolino — a “quadricycle” under European law that…