VANCE, Alabama – The United Auto Workers suffered a disappointing loss at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama on Friday, a setback for the union’s plans to achieve broader gains in the U.S. South after winning a deal at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant in April. With votes still being tallied, the “no” votes had passed the […]
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With a minivan, you can pack it with a half dozen friends to shuttle them to a big party. But that involves some boring time in traffic. With the Nissan Townstar Karaok-e you can skip that boring step because the van is the party. That’s the idea behind Nissan’s modified Townstar Evalia is a one-off
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This Post May Contain Affiliate Links. Please Read Our Disclosure Policy here Find a full source list at the end of the post! I had been looking for a table for this spot for awhile now and happened to see this vintage marble top washstand pop up on Facebook marketplace. I was hoping to find
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In this episode of the Autoblog Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore is joined by Senior Editor John Beltz Snyder. John’s been driving the new Chevy Traverse and the BMW X5 M Competition, and Greg gives his first impressions from behind the wheel of the new Fiat 500e. They discuss Tesla’s abandonment of its lower-cost EV, and a
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PARIS/BERLIN – Volkswagen has walked away from talks with Renault to jointly develop an affordable electric version of the Twingo subcompact car, three sources familiar with the situation said, in a setback for the EU carmakers’ efforts to fend off Chinese rivals. The collapse of negotiations could mean the German carmaker may have to go
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John McAslan + Partners is known worldwide for its architecture and infrastructure contributions, specifically to major transit hubs—both London’s Kings Cross and Sydney’s Central Station being crowning achievements. New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) have heralded the redesign of Penn Station from the architecture and engineering team led by John
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Is Oceanwide Plaza an object lesson? Stalled for more than five years, the project in Downtown Los Angeles stands half-built, filling an entire block across the street from the Crypto.com arena and the L.A. convention center. Tall grasses grow in the gaps between materials and equipment abandoned when it’s bankrupt Beijing-based developer, Oceanwide Holdings, pulled
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In 1996, Royal Caribbean and Wilson Butler Architects (WBA) embarked on a simple mission: Provide the “best family vacation on the planet.” Since then, the pair have put out into the ocean blue 24 hulking cruise ships that would make Captain Cook blush. Flash forward to last year, the Boston architecture office and Royal Caribbean
With the introduction of the new Fox-platform Mustang for the 1979 model year, the Pinto-derived Mustang II was shown the door and a new era of Mustang performance began. Mustangs with ever-more-powerful V8s and turbocharged four-bangers hit the streets, rappers sang their praises and hot-rodded Ford ponies took over the drag strips. The thing is, we
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