powerful ponies it is good to see you on this Tuesday June 27th our US auto saleshalftime preview continues today and we wanted to find out which muscle cars areflexing the most so far this year in a light truck thirsty market for theanswer we turn to automotive news senior correspondent Jesse Snider when it comesto sporty cars Americans buy Detroit iron it is perennially Ford MustangChevrolet Camaro Dodge Challenger they control five eighths of the marketagainst 23 other sporty cars and this year Mustangs down a little bitCamaro and challenger are doing pretty well let’s look at the numbers MustangUS sales are off 28% through May but the car still has a 6500 unit lead on theChevrolet Camaro the Dodge Challenger in third place to dodge sister brand Ram itoutsold the Chevy Silverado pickup for a third consecutive month in May and isthreatening to snatch from Chevy the number-two spot behind the Ford f-seriesRam hoping to add more sales with this the limited tungsten edition notableadditions include a suede headliner Ram says that is a truck segment first thepickup also features real wood interior components the limited tungsten arrivesin dealerships in the third quarter meantime spy photographers have caughtthe redesigned RAM 1500 during testing and despite heavy camouflage somefeatures of the truck are evident including an apparent longer wheelbaseand a new tailgate that folds down and splits in the middle to provide closeraccess to the bed the next-gen light duty pickup is slated to be revealed atthe Detroit Auto Show in January turns out General Motors cost to offloadits money-losing Opel brand is more expensive than original estimates GMchief angel’ officer Chuck Stevens sayingMonday that the automaker expects to take a 5. 5 billion dollar non-cashspecial charge for the sale of Opel to French automaker PSA group that’s abillion bucks more than the original 4. 5 billion dollar estimate steven says theincrease is related to additional costs associated with the deal GM is sellingboth German based Opel and British brand Vauxhall for twopoint three billion dollars to PSA as GM exits the European market Opel says thedeal could close by July 31st the German Transport Ministry announced plans todayto set up a new Institute to test vehicle emissions the ministry aiming torestore consumer confidence after the Volkswagen cheating scandal looking toaccelerate development of self-driving cars volvo supplier auto leave and theirsoftware joint ventures annuity are boosting ties with chip maker nvidiavolvo plans to use Nvidia’s drive PX processing platform to help theautomaker meet its goal of putting an autonomous vehicle on the road by 2021specifically the sweden-based and Chinese owned automaker is looking tonvidia x’ expertise in artificial intelligence to develop systems makingit easier for autonomous vehicles to recognize obstacles and potential safetythreats the deal continues the trend of automakers traditional auto parts makersand technology suppliers aligning to boost development of Robo carsself-driving car proponent Tesla is expanding its borrowing capacity as acompany gears up for the start of production of the mass market model 3 inJuly it is the second time in about six months the electric car maker has soughtto raise more capital according to a regulatory filing Tesla increased itscredit agreements by a combined 800 million dollars to three point eight tofive billion dollars if you drove to work today or ran an errand chances areyou saw some boneheaded move by another driver and you probably ask yourselfwhere are all the safe drivers the answer Kansas City Kansasthat’s according to insurance giant all state’s annual America’s best driversreport released today Kansas City Kansas driver averages fourteen point nineyears between collisions Allstate says the national average is 10 years be safeout there everyone we’ll see you back here tomorrow
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