Adam Newbold @adam

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**AI6YR Ben** @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org · 6h

Changed the oil in my vehicle (out in the driveway), just to remind myself how to do it. (Usually take it to the mechanic...). Need to remember what getting oil everywhere and on myself is like, LOL. Pretty simple, but always a pain to get the oil filter off and on and whatnot.

Did discover at some point the pack rat around here deposited a bunch of leaves in my air filter. Need to go buy another one (the guy at the auto place asked, and I didn't think I needed it... oops).

#automobiles

**IT News** @itnewsbot@schleuss.online · 1d

IT News @itnewsbot@schleuss.online

Ford offers discounts on cars and trucks as auto tariffs kick in. - The company said it would offer customers the same prices it offers its employees on most... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/business/economy/ford-discounts-auto-tariffs.html #unitedstatesinternationalrelations #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #internationaltradeandworldmarket #prices(faresfeesandrates) #customs(tariff) #trumpdonaldj #automobiles #fordmotorco #canada #mexico

Ford has one of the largest inventories of vehicles relative to sales, according to Cox Automotive.

The New York Times · 1dFord offers discounts on cars and trucks as auto tariffs kick in.By Neal E. Boudette

**Europe Says** @europesays@pubeurope.com · 1d

Europe Says @europesays@pubeurope.com

https://www.europesays.com/1966019/ Trump’s Tariffs Pose a New Threat for Germany’s Stagnant Economy #automobiles #Customs(Tariff) #DonaldJ #Economy #EuropeanUnion #germany #InternationalTradeAndWorldMarket #MercedesBenz #Protectionism(Trade) #trump #VolkswagenAG

EUROPE SAYS · 1dTrump’s Tariffs Pose a New Threat for Germany’s Stagnant Economy - EUROPE SAYSGermany had hoped that a new government would revive its stagnant economy, but President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs are stoking worries that Europe’s

**IT News** @itnewsbot@schleuss.online · 3d

IT News @itnewsbot@schleuss.online

Auto Sales Surged in Anticipation of Trump’s Tariffs - Sales of cars picked up recently partly as buyers rushed to lock in deals before Presiden... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/business/auto-sales-trump-tariffs.html #internationaltradeandworldmarket #electricandhybridvehicles #customs(tariff) #companyreports #generalmotors #trumpdonaldj #unitedstates #automobiles

A General Motors facility in Spring Hill, Tenn. The company on Tuesday reported a sharp jump in sales in the first quarter.

The New York Times · 3dAuto Sales Surged Ahead of Trump’s TariffsBy Jack Ewing

**Ben Higbie** @BenHigbie@mastodon.social · 4d

Ben Higbie @BenHigbie@mastodon.social

1962 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible #auto #autos #automotive #art #arts #design #retro #artlover #artlovers #60s #1960s #artist #artists #car #cars #classiccars #automobiles #automobile

a photo of a long black car, with big fins on the back that come to sharp points, it has a fabric convertible top, it is seen from behind in a three quarter view

the hood is open, the engine is silver and black

the interior of the vehicle, black leather

the vehicle seen from the side, it is facing right

**Dining & Cooking** @dnc@vive.im · 5d

Dining & Cooking @dnc@vive.im

How Trump’s Auto Tariffs Could Affect Car Prices https://www.diningandcooking.com/1987860/how-trumps-auto-tariffs-could-affect-car-prices/ #America #AmericanWine #automobiles #Customs(Tariff) #DodgeDivisionOfFiatChrysler #DonaldJ #FeesAndRates) #Prices(Fares #ToyotaMotorCorp #trump #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesEconomy #UnitedStatesWine #USWine #USAWine #Wine

**Bytes Europe** @byteseu@pubeurope.com · Mar 28

Mar 28

Bytes Europe @byteseu@pubeurope.com

Germany and France Say Europe Must Respond to Trump’s Auto Tariffs https://www.byteseu.com/871583/ #Automobiles #BayerischeMotorenwerkeAG #Customs(Tariff) #EuropeanUnion #France #Habeck #InternationalTradeAndWorldMarket #MercedesBenz #Protectionism(Trade) #robert #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations #VolkswagenAG

**EVSHIFT** @evshift@channels.im · Mar 24

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

~ Trump’s Unwelcome News to Auto Chiefs: Buckle Up for What’s to Come ~

But in a statement provided by the White House, Mr. Navarro described Mr. Trump's advisers as following his lead, characterizing them as "a diverse group with complementary skill sets and a high level of trust with names like Bessent, Greer, Hassett and Lutnick who debate behind closed doors and emerge as 'one band, one sound." There have been few exceptions granted. Ms. Rollins heard from farmers who wanted an exemption for potash, an important ingredient for fertilizer. Mr. Trump ultimately agreed to a reduced 10 percent tariff, but was unhappy about the reprieve, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. In a statement, Ms. Rollins said the president's "reduction of tariffs on potash is a critical step in helping farmers manage and secure key input costs at the height of planting season while reinforcing long- term agricultural trade relations." But in many other cases, Mr. Trump has seemed far less willing to offer significant industry exemptions than he was in his first term.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

While some industry executives have tried to push back during discussions with the White House, very few have said anything publicly; those who did earned the ire of the Trump administration. Those who have spoken privately have generally sandwiched any criticism of Mr. Trump between lavish praise. Some companies have been "intimidated" about pushing back on tariffs, wary of becoming some kind of target, Mr. Reinsch said. "Nobody wants to go public," he said, "because they're concerned about the consequences." But those companies are still counting on policies they favor, such as tax cuts and deregulation. Jonathan Swan is a White House reporter covering the administration of Donald J. Trump. More about Jonathan Swan Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent, reporting on the second, nonconsecutive term of Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman Ana Swanson covers trade and international economics for The Times and is based in Washington. She has been a journalist for more than a decade. More about Ana Swanson

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

#USA #Canada #Mexico

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

~ Trump’s Unwelcome News to Auto Chiefs: Buckle Up for What’s to Come ~

He feels that so far the pressure has worked, aides say, citing Mexico's willingness to stem the flow of undocumented migrants and fentanyl into the United States. Even after Mexico came forward with those measures, Mr. Trump still pushed forward with 25 percent tariffs before pausing their application on a number of items.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

One of the biggest differences between the first term and now is that Mr. Trump is far more confident in his instincts and has stocked his team with people who echo them. He rarely hears strong dissenting views about his economic policies. Mr. Trump received fierce opposition to tariffs in his first term from those who said they would raise costs for consumers and businesses and slow the economy. His team included people Mr. Trump would derisively refer to as "globalists" - like Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary at the time, and the economic adviser Gary Cohn, who worked with others to stop tariffs by taking papers from the president's desk, and showed the president charts and maps to illustrate the benefits of trade. Other aides, like Larry Kudlow, were less confrontational but still skeptical of a protectionist trade policy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

Mr. Trump's hard-line trade adviser Peter Navarro used to have Oval Office shouting matches against the so-called globalists. Now, returning for a second term, Mr. Navarro's disputes with other advisers are more nuanced. Mr. Bessent was a hedge fund executive, and Mr. Lutnick was the chief executive of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald. But both have publicly embraced tariffs before they were granted their jobs. And whatever they think about the tariffs privately, nobody is sitting across the Resolute Desk from Mr. Trump, strenuously arguing against his economic ideas. His current team's arguments revolve around public messaging about the tariffs, as well as exemptions and the scale and timing of the tariffs, but no one is challenging the idea of using them in some form.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

Nor is Mr. Trump hearing strong dissent from Capitol Hill. Republican lawmakers are either converts to protectionism or cowed against speaking out. The Wall Street Journal editorial board is the rare right-leaning institution still consistently challenging his approach to trade. Mr. Lutnick, who is also overseeing the U.S. trade office, receives many calls from unhappy business leaders, along with the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins. On the night of March 13, Mr. Lutnick, Mr. Bessent, Kevin Hassett, who is the National Economic Council director, and a few others met at the Naval Observatory with Vice President JD Vance to discuss having a cohesive public message about the economy, amid complaints from allies about inconsistency, according to four people briefed on the meeting. White House officials declined to comment on the meeting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

#USA #Canada #Mexico

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

~ Trump’s Unwelcome News to Auto Chiefs: Buckle Up for What’s to Come ~

One of Mr. Trump's advisers, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said the Biden presidency proved to Mr. Trump that the stock market is not a foolproof barometer of the economy's future, nor a useful indicator of voter sentiment. If it were, Mr. Biden, who presided over a booming stock market, would surely be the president, the adviser said, explaining Mr. Trump's thinking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

Advisers say Mr. Trump knows that foreign leaders are watching to see whether he follows through on his threats, looking for signs of weakness. They have said he believes that backing off his tariffs would permanently damage his preferred image as a strongman. Sometimes he has granted absolution of sorts - like when he exempted from tariffs products from Canada and Mexico that comply with his North American trade deal. But he has repeatedly said that more and bigger tariffs are on the way. Business leaders are now rapidly reassessing the cheerful assumptions that had guided their thinking since Election Day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

Bill Reinsch, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Commerce Department official, said Mr. Trump had been explicit in the campaign about his intentions, and that his tariff proposals this time have been much deeper and broader than in his first term. "I think he was clear," he said. "I don't think people paid much attention." Their misread is understandable. In the lead-up to the 2024 election, Mr. Trump's new crop of economic advisers sent reassuring signals to Wall Street. Their public remarks suggested that Mr. Trump's second-term trade policy would be much the same as the first. In September, Howard Lutnick, now the commerce secretary, described tariffs as a "bargaining chip" that would ultimately lead to freer markets. And Scott Bessent, who became Mr. Trump's treasury secretary, wrote in a letter to his clients last year that "the tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table but rarely discharged."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

It is still possible that Mr. Trump backs away from some of his tariffs, but if he's contemplating a reversal it would be news to his closest advisers. Mr. Trump has said repeatedly he plans to issue much more extensive tariffs on April 2, and his advisers have told foreign officials and chief executives that he won't be deterred. His comments to his cabinet secretaries and aides in Oval Office meetings track with his public rhetoric, according to two people with direct knowledge, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Mr. Trump personally drafts or dictates his Truth Social posts that threaten ever- escalating tariffs as China, Canada and the European Union retaliate against his provocations. Even former aides who think his maximalist approach is the wrong one say he has a valid point about how China and Europe have treated the United States unfairly when it comes to trade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

Accessed: 17 March 2025 at 1645 CST

#USA #Canada #Mexico

**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

Trump tells the US auto industry to buckle up and get ready for his tariff ride.

(article screenshots follow in next post)

Trump's Unwelcome News to Auto Chiefs: Buckle Up for What's to Come President Trump's approach to tariffs has unsettled many corporate leaders who believed he would use the levies as a negotiating tool. As it turns out, he sees them as an end in themselves.

NYT headline, 17 March 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-corporate-executives.html

#USA #Canada #Mexico

**Tina M Casey** @Casey@newsie.social · Mar 15

Mar 15

Tina M Casey @Casey@newsie.social

BMW aims to fill the EV sales gap left by Tesla, with hydrogen fuel cell EVs in the mix as well.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/15/bmw-spots-an-ev-sales-opportunity-as-tesla-tumbles/

CleanTechnica · Mar 15BMW Spots An EV Sales Opportunity As Tesla TumblesBMW Group is revving up its EV sales and production engine in Europe and elsewhere around the globe as EV demand continues to rise.

#bmw #bmwgroup #bmwi3

**RonSupportsYou** @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social · Mar 14

Mar 14

RonSupportsYou @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social

Sen. Mark Kelly: "I bought a Tesla because it was fast like a rocket ship. But now every time I drive it, I feel like a rolling billboard for a man dismantling our government and hurting people. So Tesla, you’re fired!" #politics #automobiles #Musk

**highly principled invertebrate** @BrahmaBelarusian@todon.eu · Mar 14 *

Mar 14 *

highly principled invertebrate @BrahmaBelarusian@todon.eu

My Tech ideals

**Bytes Europe** @byteseu@pubeurope.com · Mar 6

Mar 6

Bytes Europe @byteseu@pubeurope.com

Tesla’s EU Sales Drop as Anger Toward Elon Musk Grows https://www.byteseu.com/804781/ #Automobiles #CompanyReports #ElectricAndHybridVehicles #Elon #Europe #EuropeanUnion #Germany #musk #ShareholderRightsAndActivism #TeslaMotorsInc

**Imogen** @HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social · Mar 3

Mar 3

Imogen @HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social

#Finance #Automobiles #Inflation

Bloomberg) -- Impending tariffs on Canada and Mexico risk driving up US car prices by as much as $12,000, further squeezing consumers and wreaking havoc across the intricate web of automotive supply lines spanning the continent.

“That kind of cost increase will lead directly — and I expect almost immediately — to a decline in sales of the models that have the biggest trade impacts,” Patrick Anderson, CEO of Anderson Economic Group, said in an interview.

**Spikes** @Spikes@pixelfed.social · Feb 28

Feb 28

Spikes @Spikes@pixelfed.social

Larz Anderson Auto Museum #photography #automobiles

#automobiles

**Jake Brown** @JacoBrown@pixelfed.social · Feb 22

Feb 22

Jake Brown @JacoBrown@pixelfed.social

Caught a sleek Datsun 1600 pickup truck today

#portland #oregon #pdx #pnw #ippawards #cars #trucks #automobiles #antiques #datsun #nissan #photography #iphone #iphoneography

#iphoneography

**Bruce MacDonald** @rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · Feb 20

Feb 20

Bruce MacDonald @rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

The moose is Minnesota’s largest wild animal.

Strib: 'Sheriff’s Cmdr. Nate Skelton said Wednesday that [19-year-old Ava] Knutsen “was trapped but got out on their own.”

'The moose was collected by the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for its next stop, a food bank, Skelton said.

'Skelton said vehicles hitting moose is “a fairly common” occurrence in his county, “but not as often as deer hits, mind you. I’d just as soon hit a deer as a moose. They are pretty much an immovable object.”'
https://www.startribune.com/night-driver-hits-immovable-object-a-large-moose-on-iron-range-highway/601225449

www.startribune.com · Feb 19Night driver hits ‘immovable object’ — a large moose — on Iron Range highwayAs for the fate of the animal, the Sheriff’s Office reported that “sadly, the moose did not survive.”

#Minnesota #moose #automobiles

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