Aurel Niculescu

4 days ago | autoevolution.com | Aurel Niculescu

12 photosPhoto: theottle / YouTubeThis virtual artist, better known as Theottle on social media, has resorted to CGI slicing and dicing some odd cars to make the Chrysler PT Cruiser new again – without much success, to be honest. After all, not even the pixel master is satisfied with the result.

4 days ago | autoevolution.com | Aurel Niculescu

9 photosPhoto: innov8designlab / InstagramDuring the first quarter of the year, Stellantis' local division, FCA US, saw its total US automotive market sales drop by no less than 12% - which comes on top of last year's drops. The total for the first three months of the year was a little over 293k vehicles. That's pretty abysmal if you ask anyone but the company's corner office head honchos.

4 days ago | autoevolution.com | Aurel Niculescu

The sixth-generation Audi A6 is coming to a US dealership near you this summer, but the Ingolstadt-based automaker faces stiff internal competition from every direction. The BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class are the usual suspects, but there are more rivals. Two years ago, in March 2023, Audi's corner office head honchos announced yet another renaming strategy following the one that saw their engine designations written with letters and words only they could understand.

5 days ago | autoevolution.com | Aurel Niculescu

26 photosPhoto: thesketchmonkey / InstagramPremium and ultra-luxury brands love to brag about their achievements – whether it's record sales because the one percent of the one-percenters are doing better than ever or miscellaneous stuff. For example, Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna recently told CNBC that the brand's customers are getting younger – some 40% of their buyers are below 40 years old, a jump of no less than ten percent from 2023.

5 days ago | autoevolution.com | Aurel Niculescu

15 photosPhoto: Digimods DESIGN / YouTubeBecause customers are quite tired of never-ending price increases, the US automotive market saw a massive sales spike of cheap cars like the Kia Forte, Nissan Versa, Mitsubishi Mirage, and Hyundai Venue (among others) last year. However, most of them will be dead when MY2026 comes around. If there's one thing that automakers hate the most, it's small profits on their business charts.