The Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA), producer of the Chicago Auto Show, today announced it will reopen the north exhibit hall of McCormick Place, expanding once again to a two-hall show and reenlisting brands that missed during the pandemic. The pandemic led to the show shrinking a bit but now it’s back to full-size! From their release: Set inside the city’s cavernous McCormick Place, the show won on sheer acreage. They got over it.Įven in the peak era of auto shows, Chicago was never the place where the biggest news was broken, but it was always the biggest place where news was broken. It was a little less fun for Ray and Mike Spinelli as they suddenly had an enthusiastic kid in his early 20s running around and annoying everyone in the press room with his constant loud chatter. I essentially bluffed my way into a press pass from Ray Wert. My first ever auto show as a professional member of the media was the Chicago Auto Show. The Company has received a draft $30 million binding letter of intent from a current FF investor, which remains subject to Board approval and certain conditions including the negotiation and execution of definitive documentationįingers crossed! The Chicago Auto Show Is Back, Baby! I refer you to: “Faraday Future Continues To Produce More Drama Than Actual Cars” and “Controversial Chinese Billionaire Will Try To Save EV Company That Spent $3 Billion And Hasn’t Delivered A Car.”Įngaged in discussions with both potential new investors and existing FF investors to provide the estimated $150-170M of additional capital needed to produce the FF 91 Futurist It should be clear at this point that The Autopian maintains a great deal of skepticism towards troubled EV company Faraday Future. Faraday Future Is Going To Deliver Cars In April, According To Faraday Future That moment will probably come for driverless cars and the question is always: How long will that be? Seems like it’s going to be a while to me, but maybe in a decade I’ll look back on me yelling “Get a driver!” and laugh at my pessimism. When people see the horseless carriage driving down the street (or broken down) they jeer and yell “Get a horse!”īy the time Booth Tarkington wrote the novel, in 1917, the cars had won and the horses had lost. There’s this great scene in “The Magnificent Ambersons” wherein one of the characters is driving an extremely early automobile, with its seemingly endless problems and off-putting noise. Last month, Cruise Chief Operating Officer Gil West told Reuters the company plans to enter a “large number of markets” and scale operations up to “thousands of vehicles” in 2023. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has had enough and has launched a probe into Cruise’s operations, according to Reuters reporter David Shepardson. Welcome to the future, where a car with no driver parks behind another car with no driver and just sits there. There have been multiple instances of crashes and immobilized Cruise vehicles in San Francisco lately. The Feds Are Probing Cruise Self-Driving Vehicles The same thing happened to the Maverick and it’s just a reminder that, if you really want a car, there are some advantages to putting in the order as soon as you can. If you’ve already put in an order and are awaiting delivery, your price is safe. Both of these prices exclude the $1,895 destination charge. The standard range XLT got bumped to $63,474, up from $59,474. Then again, just a few months ago in October, Ford increased the base price of the F-150 Lightning to $52,000 this time. In August, Ford increased the price of all the models by $6,000 to $8,000. It appears to aim to compete with Tesla’s Cybertruck base price announced a few years prior. When Ford announced pricing for the F-150 Lightning, it surprised many with a starting price of $40,000.
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