This 1999 Shelby Series 1 Supercharged will be offered without reserve at the Kruse Auburn Fall sale. Get all the latest auto industry news in the Executive Briefing.
Today’s headlines:
+ The price of diesel fuel has risen to a nationwide average of $5.62 per gallon, and analysts expect it to continue to increase due to multiple bottlenecks in world oil supplies. More at The Drive.
+ Honda is warning that the carmaker may not build a new assembly plant in North America if the U.S., Canada, and Mexico fail to extend the USMCA free trade agreement. More at Yahoo! Finance.
+ The Jack Demmer Automotive Group, a Ford dealer in Wayne, Michigan, has launched live commercial drone operations to deliver auto parts throughout Metro Detroit. More at CBT News.
+ Driver Sergio Perez says the Cadillac team’s recent stall in development has made the past few Formula 1 races “a disappointment,”” but adds the team is continually learning. More at Motorsport.com.
+ Mitsubishi is prepping for a major expansion of its US vehicle lineup, including a new Outlander, an EV, and a return to the pickup market through a partnership with Nissan. More at Autoweek.
+ Mate Rimac, Bugatti’s 38 year-old chief executive, believes internal combustion engines will continue to dominate the high-end supercar market for decades to come. More at Autoblog.
+ Automaker Kia and its South Korean labor union have reached a tentative wage agreement, the union and company said, averting the partial strikes scheduled soon. More at World Auto Forum.
+ Lotus Technology reported first-half 2026 deliveries of 3,904 vehicles, up 39 percent year-on-year, driven by the sales of the Eletre X, the company’s first plug-in hybrid. More at Automotive World.
+ Consignments for the annual Kruse Auctions Auburn Fall sale will include hot Japanese collectibles from Toyota and Mitsubishi and a 1999 Shelby Series 1 Supercharged. More at Old Cars.
+ Sources say NASCAR is close to finalizing a deal with FedEx Freight to become the title sponsor of the Truck Series, replacing Craftsman Tools, in that role since 2023. More at Jayski.
Photo courtesy of Kruse Auctions.
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Its laughable that Honda, Hyundai and the Canadien ambassador trying to “blackmail” the Trump Administration over “fair trade”. Honda and Hyundai are only here in the U.S.A. because of massive corporate welfare, bribery, cheating, loophole cascades, collusion and handouts to build vehicles, rust and junk domestically. Prioritizing global corporate profits and tax chattle wealth extraction over American sovereignty and American families is the perfect recipe for our long-term decline. The ozone hole paperboy’s prolapsed dialation of the American loophole lawyering lawyer’s unrestricted global trade sacrificed American engineering, ethics and safety for the sake of personal profit and pleasure, the neutrino core of this phenomena.
President Trump’s border tariffs are not just about balancing immense and unfair trade deficits or revenge; it is the only way we can force fairness, accountability and transparency, stop all the cheating, illusions, fraud, risks and bullshit while restoring American engineering, ethics and safety standards…
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Loved “Animal House,” and if Saint Honda’s American manufacturing business model was truly viable on its own merits, it should have been able to stand on its own feet. It should have paid for its own land, built its own proving grounds with its own capital, pay all it’s property taxes and fees that any Ohio family business has to pay, and make it’s profit based entirely on the quality of its engineering, safety and sales. The fact that Ohio loophole lawyers felt the need to liquidate a $170 million sovereign public safety asset (TRC, valued at around $900 million in today’s money) and gave it away proves that the Ohio Honda deal was never operating on any logical economic viability, need or even fairness, only typical Ohio loophole lawyer political selfishness, IMHO…
TRC Inc. is 17025 accredited for emissions testing.
go on up to East Liberty and get checked out.
Will do!
The Transportation Research Center Inc. in East Liberty, Ohio’s proving ground of low-bid engineering and the backdrop for perfecting NHTSA’s FMVSS Part 555 EV/AV/ADAS immunity/exemption/UNLIMITED SINGLE POINT FAILURE MODES, is a poster-boy case study of Ohio loophole-lawyering shenanigans. They said it cost Ohio tax chattel over $74 million to build the TRC without a public vote in the early 1970s only for state government loophole lawyers to liquidate the asset to Saint Honda just a decade later. Adjusted for inflation, a critical sovereign public safety asset that would cost over $170 million to replace in 1988 money ($900 million today) was built entirely through the compulsory extraction of local taxpayer wealth, then practically given to Saint Honda for an alleged $31 million locking in a “golden buckeye” 82% discount!
To put this into perspective for those in the back, that is the equivalent of taking a $50,000 truck paid for by a middle class American family’s household limited budget, then forced to sell it to a Japanese corporation for just $9,250, while still letting them use your driveway to run their business for free. To top it off, you cover all the property taxes, infrastructure maintenance, inconvenience, polution and liability out of your own pocket, while all the profits are offshored straight to Tokyo…
The # of words to say Honda Sucks !