UAW and MAGA

Although trade unions and politics are subject that rarely arise on “Autoline After Hours,” that’s far from being the case on this show, where we are joined in the studio by Brian Pannebecker, who is a lift-truck driver at the Ford Sterling Axle Plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan,  (where they make products including rear axles […]

Volvo on the Silk Road

Volvo has been building cars in Gothenburg, Sweden, since 1927. Volvo has been owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding since 2010. Volvo still builds cars in Gothenburg. But it also builds cars in China. In Chengdu since 2013. And Daqing since 2014. And yesterday a number of S90 sedans—approximately 120–arrived at a distribution center in Zeebrugge, […]

The Vehicular Art of. . .LEGO

A couple years ago I took my elementary-school-aged nephew from Hawaii to The Henry Ford Museum. As his father had grown up in Detroit, I figured that he’d be exceedingly interested (well, as much as someone his age could be) in the remarkable display of cars through the ages that are on display: Roper, Duryea, […]