The 2027 Rezvani Fortress offers up to 850 hp, while tactical options include body armor and bulletproof glass. Get all the latest auto industry news in the Executive Briefing.
Today’s headlines:
+ The Trump administration seeks to increase the level of U.S.-produced content in North American-built vehicles to 50 percent, freezing out Canadian assembly plants and workers. More at MSN.
+ As currently written, a House bill aimed at blocking Chinese automakers from the USA could ban new vehicles from Mercedes-Benz, which has a major Chinese ownership stake. More at CNBC.
+ Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna is vigorously defending the controversial styling of its first all-electric vehicle, the Luce, saying buyer interest in the new four-door EV is strong. More at World Auto Forum.
+ General Motors president Mark Reuss confirmed that a valve stem coating was behind the recent rash of Chevrolet engine failures in IndyCar and the issue is now under control. More at Motorsport.com.
+ The Federal Trade Commission has named all 97 dealership groups that received deceptive pricing warning letters in March, including AutoNation and Hendrick Automotive. More at CBT News.
+ The peak time of day for car accidents is between 3 and 3:10 p.m., but between 4 and 4:10 p.m. is the peak time for accidents with injuries, according to Mercury Insurance. More at Autoweek.
+ Rivian chief software officer Wassym Bensaid says the integration of smartphone apps including Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will be obsoleted by artificial intelligence. More at The Drive.
+ In China, Tesla quietly renamed its Full Self-Driving system “Tesla Assisted Driving” one week before a court hearing for Tesla owners who say the automakers’ claims are misleading. More at Autoblog.
+ Based on the Ford F-150 Raptor-R, the 2027 Rezvani Fortress offers up to 850 hp, while the tactical options include body armor, bulletproof glass, and a smokescreen. More at Car and Driver.
+ Corey Heim, 23XI Racing development driver and the current NASCAR Truck champion, will compete full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series with the team in 2027. More at Jayski.
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Pretty sad that MSN doesn’t know where North America is.
2027 Rezvani is a cool truck which probably costs a ton armored but give me the look w/o the armor and if it was still affordable I would be interested!
The Ferrari Luce – comes with a fake clutch pedal that is connected to nothing but allows the person behind the wheel to think he is actually in control of something. There more than just the weird styling and 2/3’s of a Million dollar price tag that make me laugh out loud.
FIFA Car of the Year!
But seriously, I don’t hate the looks, but it’s a product of a lead designer who’d never done a car before and seems to fundamentally misunderstand the facts that nobody commutes in a Ferrari and nobody pays 600k for a daily driver.
Although if “tall sedan” was his design brief, maybe Ferrari corporate misunderstands it.
If you told me it’s the all new, all-electric Chevy Impala starting at 35 grand, I’d both believe you and want one.
Mercury Insurance’s obvious truth: when the 3:05 bell rings, the entire school zone ecosystem transforms into a chaotic motor vehicle/pedestrian migration event where every carbon‑based human lifeform is laser‑focused on getting the hell away from school property as fast as physics allows.
And surprise, surprise, surprise- that produces crashes, injuries and fatalities.
The deeper tragedy is that this twice-daily demolition derby isn’t just about stress, fatigue, or everyone stampeding toward freedom- it’s also the predictable outcome of pathetic American driver training that leaves distracted learners, teachers, faculty and staff totally unprepared for any unexpected traffic decision, conflict, emergency or risk. Afternoon dismissal throws distracted poorly trained parents, teens, teachers, and school bus drivers into a tight, frantic stunt show where impatience, bad habits, bad manners and ignorant optimisms collide.
Morning school bus time always comes in second place in bad outcomes because these same undertrained distracted drivers are in a hurry, half‑awake, and wrestling with routines and maybe thinking about what to say or post next, but at least the chaos is spread out a little more in the AM.
Layer on top of that the lethal reality that post modern hostile green infrastructure focuses on revenue events, tickets, fines, fees, ambulance runs, insurance spikes and other reactive enforcement instead of real driver training, engineering ethics and systemic safety design like American aviation is. Mercury’s dire conclusion wrote itself: when you combine a high‑stress environment with distracted drivers who are barely trained and the post modern American traffic system that prioritizes punishment over prevention, the road doesn’t just get stupid after school, it is your daily reminder that this engineered blood bath is deliberately created by those who profit from it…
According to Stockadora, Mercury General’s auto insurance target market primarily consists of value-conscious, middle-market households. Mercury delivered a solid year, showing resilience in a challenging market- total revenues increased by 7.2% to $4.2 billion. The vast majority of it’s customers are located in California, which makes up roughly 75-80% of their business. While historically known as a low-cost leader in California, recent severe wildfire losses prompted double-digit rate hikes, shifting their customer profile toward stable, multi-policy consumers…
https://www.stockadora.com/annual-report/reports/mercury-general-corp/0000064996-26-000005/