AD #4172 - Chevy Developing New Passenger Car; Tesla Sales Fall in Key Markets; Honda Launching 1st Electric Motorcycle

Speaker 1: This is Autoligned Daily, the show dedicated to enthusiasts of the global automotive industry. Could the Chevy, Malibu or Impola

be making a comeback? A few weeks ago, reports came

out that Cadillac is dropping the CT for sedan, but is keeping the CT five, including a next gen version scheduled to come out sometime in twenty twenty eight. Well,

a source tells Autolne that Chevy is also developing a vehicle from the same platform as that next gen CT five.

That platform is said to be a modified version of the current CT five's Alpha two platform. It's supposed to

get the same treatment announced for the next gen Escalaide IQ, which is a more centralized computing system with fewer control modules.

Enthusiasts will be happy to know that our source says a manual transmission and a V eight engine are still on the table for both the Cadillac and the Chevrolet models. However,

we will caution full blown enthusiasm for a new Chevy sedan.

While a vehicle is in development, it doesn't mean the company will follow through with launching it. It's also possible

this could be something like the next gen Camaro, but it does make a lot of sense that GM would want more than just the CT five on the Alpha two platform. The one question I keep coming to is

would US buyers want a new Chevy Sedan. I'm not convinced. However,

GM is planning to make expanded efforts into other global markets, including a pushback into Europe, and I think that's where a Chevy Sedan would make a lot more sense. And

as part of these expansion efforts, GM promoted Mike McAfee to President of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The current managing directors of those regions will

now report to McAfee, and McAfee will report to Rory Harvey, the company's executive VP and president of Global Markets. It

sounds like GM would like to see more sharing and collaboration between the regions, and by putting one person in charge, it hopes to speed up development. I feel like Waimo

has really amped up its expansion efforts ever since Tesla kicked off its robo taxi service in Austin, Texas, and today is no different. Weimo announced it will launch in

Las Vegas and San Diego next year, but it still does need to secure deployment permits in San Diego, and perhaps most surprisingly, Weimo is planning to bring its service to Detroit. However, it didn't say when that will happen.

Weimo already test vehicles in Detroit in the winter time as a way to improve its capabilities in the snow and on the ice and for really deep snow. It's

also testing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In addition to the

expansion announcement, Waimo said it plans to start adding its new purpose built robotaxis that are made by Chinese automaker Zeger to its fleet this week. Automakers in Europe are struggling.

Sales are still below pre pandemic levels, which has forced companies to cut costs in order to save cash. US

terrace and fierce competition in China are also impacting their profits, but according to Bloomberg Intelligence data, the worst might be over.

The stocks europe six hundred Auto Index, which tracks the performance of six hundred automotive and supplier companies in Europe, is expected to see a boost to its earnings per share in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. It

says European automakers are expected to recover thanks to new EV subsidies, as well as efforts to reduce costs and introduce new models, which should start to pay off next year.

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Speaker 1: Tesla struggled in two of its biggest markets in October.

Over in China, the evmaker shipped about sixty one five hundred vehicles from its factory in Shanghai, down almost ten percent from a year ago. According to the China Passenger

Car Association. That number includes models that were exported and

sold in China. While Tesla was down, new energy vehicle

sales in China were actually up sixteen percent last month.

Tesla also had a tough October in parts of Europe.

It posted big double digit registration drops in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands, and even more concerning, it was outsold by several Chinese evmakers in Denmark and Spain, although Tesla did post a two percent increase in France, and speaking of sales, it was a bit of a mixed bag for the automakers that report sales on a monthly basis.

In the US, Ford, Honda, the Hyundai Group, Mazda, subru and Toyota sold just over seven hundred and fifteen thousand vehicles combined in October, up one point two percent from a year ago. Toyota led the way with a nearly

twelve percent increase. Ford was up one and a half percent,

and Honda only posted a slight increase. The others were.

Speaker 2: All down last month.

Speaker 1: The Hondai Group's sales dropped one percent, Subaru fell six percent, and Mazda slump by nearly a third. And it must

have been tough for the automakers that report sales on a quarterly basis, like GMS, delant As, VWBMW and Nissan.

Forecasts from JD Power and Cox Automotive projected an overall decline between three to seven percent in October. Honda is

going to launch its first electric motorcycle early next year, called the WN seven. It features a fixed nine point

three kilowatt hour battery pack that can provide up to one hundred and forty kilometers or about eighty seven miles of range. While it does come with a ccs plug

E and fast charging capability. It's on the low end

of fast charging. It takes about thirty minutes to go

from twenty to eighty percent state of charge. Power comes

from a fifty kilowatt or sixty seven horsepower electric motor, which also produces about seventy three pound feet of torque.

Production is scheduled to start at the end of this year, and deliveries in markets like Europe start in twenty twenty six.

The name Honda will also be spelled out in the same script on its electric motorcycles as it is on its electric cars, while Ice motorcycles will continue to use its traditional wing logo. On top of its ev announcements,

Honda says its E clutch, which doesn't require riders to use the clutch when shifting, is expanding to more models, and it also showed up off an E compressor prototype, which provides boost no matter what the engine rpm is.

Honda hopes to develop a nine hundred cc engine that performs similar to a twelve hundred cc engine, and it says it's working towards mass production. Toyota is reviving the Sion,

but not for a new car. It's an off road

concept that the automaker created for the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, called the Sion one concept. It's a side

by side all terrain vehicle that can be used for high speed racing, trail running, and technical rock climbing thanks to a rollcage that meets FIA racing standards. The vehicle

is powered by Toyota's turbocharged four cylinder hybrid powertrain that it uses in its trucks, and it delivers over three hundred horse power. But if this is something you're interested in,

don't get too attached because Toyota isn't planning to make it available for sale. That wraps up today's show. Thanks

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