The famed 1938 Buick Y-Job will be part of a special one-year exhibit at the Gilmore Car Museum. Get all the latest auto industry news in the Executive Briefing.
Today’s headlines:
+ BYD of China, now the world’s largest EV maker in sales, saw its 2025 net profit fall 19 percent, the company’s first decline since 2021, due to an intense domestic price war, More at MSN News.
+ Gasoline price spikes triggered by the military conflict in Iran are boosting used electric vehicle sales across Europe, according to reports from online used vehicle retailers. More at World Auto Forum.
+ A payment dispute between Stellantis and supplier ZF Chassis Modules has halted production at the automaker’s Toluca, Mexico, plant and threatened operations in Canada. More at CBT News.
+ Drivers and leading figures within Formula 1 have called for urgent action after a high-speed crash involving Haas driver Oliver Bearman at the Japanese Grand Prix. More at The Guardian.
+ According to the New Jersey-based Pantone Color Institute, bright colors for automotive exteriors are staging a comeback, with green shades leading the trend. More at Car and Driver.
+ The Trump administration is easing the restrictions on the retail sale of E15 gasoline (containing 15 percent ethanol) in an effort to reduce price increases due to the war in Iran. More at The Hill.
+ Jaguar Land Rover has ordered a temporary halt of Range Rover and Range Rover Sport production at its Solihull plant England following a fire at a parts supplier in Norway. More at Automotive World.
+ Employment at Stellantis grew last year for the first time in the carmaker’s history as the carmaker added more than 10,000 jobs worldwide, 4,700 of them in North America. More at The Detroit News.
+ The 1938 Buick Y-Job has been added to GM Motorama Marvels from the Joe Bortz Collection, a special one-year-exhibit at the Gilmore Car Museum opening on April 11. More at Old Cars.
+ NASCAR announced the 15 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2027, with 2014 Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick nominated in his first year of eligibility. More at Catchfence.
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Perhaps consumers would embrace brighter colors if manufacturers didn’t charge $600 for anything other than black, gray & silver. Even white is an extra cost option on several cars. As for those color consultants, they’ve clearly spent too much time in California.
The Buick Y-job is one of the most beautiful cars ever created according to me.
BTW. tomorrow’s NTSB dog and pony show hearing is essentially a public autopsy of the automotive industry’s “self-cerification” hallucination, proving that systems like Ford’s BlueCruise are prone to a total sensory GIGO failure when encountering stationary and emergencyhazards. IMHO, this NTSB Ford Bluecruise hearing is just another red herring in the post-modern jargon monoxide Congress is selling pushing the ADAS Functionality and Integrity Act (H.R. 6688) that turns optional safety suggestions from private equity into mandatory federal “shall” performance standards, while the SELF DRIVE Act (H.R. 7390) will codify the very same private equity autonomy that led to these crashes. Meanwhile, the REPAIR Act (H.R. 1566) that SEMA strongly supports is just a Trojan Horse to shift all legal and financial liability from the manufacturers, private equity and regulaters to independant repair shops…