Ryan Felton

@MattZeitlin feels forever ago, but i seem to recalls the number of workers at hospitals in detroit who live in canada was consequential enough that they had to get their own kind of exemption to cross the border during the pandemic. totally could see these cars being a common sight here

one interesting side effect of canadians buying up to 50,000 chinese EVs a year is that we'll start seeing them on the road in buffalo, maine, vermont, and....detroit

Exclusive: A Chinese supplier has been tied to fake airbag parts that exploded and killed five people driving used cars wsj.com/business/autos…

mitsu said: we couldn't confirm if biz info was in our docs, so we're saying all of it is and will let you know if some of it isn't. unclear if nhtsa ever pressed mitsu, because 6 years on, all i see is the fully redacted letter: static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2019/I… static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2019/I…

NHTSA published a 6k+ page PDF it received as part of one of its investigations and redacted everything. Good stuff. static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2019/I…

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The company is prepared to work with the administration to further invest in its U.S. manufacturing footprint, the email says, "but we need time to make these changes without engatively impacting the business and our customers."

Exclusive: Jeep-maker Stellantis told U.S. dealers in an email Tuesday that tariffs will put its brands at a competitive disadvantage to competitors that import from Japan, South Korea and Europe. wsj.com/livecoverage/t…

Might take a decade to process at this cadence and the most info possibly gleaned from this will probably be that OEMs sent information to NHTSA about a particular thing

nhtsa is providing records on a rolling basis for an old foia request i made and every month it's just a confidentiality request from a particular OEM and NHTSA's response granting that request. several months of this now, it's great

Counterfeit air bags have killed or seriously injured people in at least five incidents in the past year on.wsj.com/4exA6hF on.wsj.com/4exA6hF

Well, more @wsj layoffs today. Dow Jones stock is up, margins are up, there’s a new windfall AI deal in place and we’re cutting good reporters.

Stellantis introduced a new bonus program for dealers this month that pays $ if they hit a sales target, but it has an unusual twist: the program is structured so the bonus is tied to how many cars are shipped to their store. wsj.com/business/autos…

fiat brand sold less cars in the U.S. than rolls royce in april, per industry data. does anyone know if there is a fiat-only storefront in the U.S., i've poked around periodically for a long while and still do not know

I'm sure if I squint someone could argue this has something to do with Argus, which, whatever. But this probe's gone on a very long time, and the agency's apparently in possession of stuff the OEMs already think is public. Just publish it.

NHTSA (it seems) proactively sought a public version of this document, albeit redacted. Unclear if it's wholly redacted, or in part, as it's never been published. No idea why.

not the least bit surprising but in fy23 nhtsa was the slowest on average among the transportation department's agencies to respond to simple foia requests