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Gerry McGovern introduces the Jaguar Type 00 and rebrand in Miami, Fla. in 2024.

What do we know so far about Gerry McGovern’s departure from Jaguar Land Rover?

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025

Gerry McGovern, OBE’s surprise sacking from Jaguar Land Rover—with no comment from the car maker—must go down in history as one of the more shocking departures, up there with the Carlos Ghosn arrest or Lee Iacocca’s firing. Autocar India theorizes it was over the Jaguar rebrand—not whether the resultant car will succeed, but the way… Read More »What do we know so far about Gerry McGovern’s departure from Jaguar Land Rover?

A yellow and a red Volkswagen T-Roc in front of some modernist architecture.

This year’s global top 10, to September 2025

October 26, 2025November 4, 2025

The next Autocade Year of Cars will have a top 10 table. We looked at sourcing the numbers from Focus2move, as we originally did for the full-year 2024 table, but their summary (at the time of writing; this page appears to change) did not hold water once we began investigating the rankings themselves based on… Read More »This year’s global top 10, to September 2025

Tariffs won’t make the Big Two great again

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

President Donald J. Trump has been talking about tariffs for a very long time, even as a businessman back in the ’80s. Back then he lamented that the US was being hard done by Japan, with all the Japanese cars and VCRs that Americans were buying, and yet the reverse was not true. (Never mind… Read More »Tariffs won’t make the Big Two great again

Stellantis might cull; who’s the target?

March 1, 2025March 2, 2025

With Carlos Tavares gone from the CEO’s office at Stellantis, there’s talk about culling brands again. Who could be on the chopping block? There’s the newly revived Lancia, which had been on death row for some time under FCA. Only one of the new models announced last year has been released. But that would be… Read More »Stellantis might cull; who’s the target?

2023 Toyota bZ4X XLE in white, viewed from the rear.

Top 10 car makers by sales, 2024

February 7, 2025November 3, 2025

For those who bought Year of Cars 2025, you’ll have seen a table that shows the top 10 in 2003, 2013 and 2023, though the last one was from a different source. There are new figures now based on units sold for 2024, detailed below. (Updated November 3, 2025, replacing Focus2move’s incorrect figures with those… Read More »Top 10 car makers by sales, 2024

We’ll all soon know luxury Chinese car brands

February 3, 2025February 4, 2025

Chinese car companies are doing luxury brands, usually in the EV space. There’s also a distinct lack of need for a foreign JV partner—a sign of things to come, says Jack Yan