If you’ve got a list of the most unusual product placements, have your pencils ready: Ford announced this week that it has partnered with Nabisco to print a limited-edition pack of Oreo Thins biscuits labeled as if they were the Instruction manual of a Ford Maverick would be. purportedly to camouflage them so that the cookies are not eaten by anyone but the intended snacker. The concept is haunted and based on anecdotes about the Maverick design team’s love for Oreos. But everyone knows you only need a hideout when you are Double Stuf.
This week in sheet metal
formula 1
We’ve looked at the 2022 F1 racing cars for the first time in decades, which will use ground effects – tunnels at the bottom of the car used to create downforce – for the first time in decades, along with other changes that make the Eddies of turbulence are supposed to minimize air that follows the current models.
The car that began life in 2019 as the Aston Martin Valkyrie Concept has now gone into production in the form of the Valhalla. It’s powered by a 937-horsepower 4.0-liter AMG twin-turbo V-8 in place of the concept-hinted hybrid V-6, and is expected to be $ 800,000 instead of the initial estimate of Costs $ 1.3 million. But don’t get too excited – deliveries are still at least two years away.
Hyundai has confirmed some details about the Elantra N that we expect to see in the US next year. It is powered by the same turbocharged 2.0 liter engine found in the Veloster N and Kona N. The Elantra N will have 286 hp and an aggressive, angular design. Also this week, Hyundai announced that it will discontinue non-N variants of the Veloster for 2022, which we have been doing since the introduction of the N anyway.
to start
As EV sales rise, the EV startup market is producing a seemingly endless stream of weird-looking, high-performance concepts. This week, a Detroit-based startup called Hercules showed off a Pininfarina-designed 1000-horsepower EV pickup concept that will be available next year. Vietnam’s first automaker VinFast – another Pininfarina partner – announced it would enter the U.S. market by March 2022 and sell electric crossovers to build and sell the car, the Teorema will likely never make it into production.
But a sleek design and a big vision doesn’t make a car company, as the people at Lordstown Motors seem to learn anew every day. Today the company announced that it is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over matters related to the merger that brought the company public last year and the once alleged contracts, which it now admits it does not were binding. The company announced earlier that it would be investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for similar issues. EV truck maker Rivian ran into a much smaller catch this week when it announced it would postpone delivery of its R1T truck until September. You should originally start shipping this month.
Global supply chain disruption, continued
Various auto companies and industry analysts have predicted that the microchip shortage that has messed up production plans for months will ease in the second half of the year. But now that the second half of the year has arrived, we are beginning to understand that there is a difference between “starting to relax” and “completely dissolving.” Volkswagen said this week that it still believes the chip shortage will improve by the end of the year, but GM has announced new downtime related to the chip shortage for five plants, Nissan has extended downtime at the plant in which its Altima sedan is being built, and Ford is reportedly considering shipping vehicles with missing microchips to dealers who would finish the vehicles and sell them when the chips become available. The plan isn’t final, but it’s a strategy Ford has in mind to clear its own bins, which are currently clogged with tens of thousands of unfinished cars and trucks.
further reading
Okay, it’s not a read, but we think you should watch the trailer for Stuntman, a Disney documentary about Eddie Braun, a stuntman chasing his last great achievement. The film will be streamed on July 23.
Read about the zip and the fools who oppose it in the New York Times.
Or, if you have a penchant for the genre of the rich fleeing justice, check out Carlos Ghosn’s interview with the BBC where he describes how he moved from Japan to the US in a box that was inside Lebanon fled a private jet.
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