Car Radio 910AM-Detroit: Auto Report Podcast, November 21, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

Los Angeles, California - Add cars to your Amazon shopping list. Beginning early next year, Amazon will sell Hyundais – and eventually any auto dealer, regardless of brand, that wants to participate. While you’ll be able to shop for your new car using Amazon’s friendly, familiar digital interface – even finance it on the checkout page – the car won’t show up on your doorstep the next day in a brown box. You’ll have to pick it up at your local dealership. Automakers’ partnership with Amazon is an admission that the dealer-based car-buying experience ranks right up there with a root canal as an unpleasant experience. 2 min. Original aired Nov. 21, 2023 on Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

Car Radio 910AM-Detroit: Podcast, November 16, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

Los Angeles, California - Government’s skewed priorities are perhaps no more evident than in tax incentives for electric automobiles. Payne reports from LA and one of the worst homeless crises in the country. Just east of downtown is Skid Row where thousands of homeless people huddle on sidewalks. On average there are 75,000 homeless people on the streets here every day. Yet governments are giving away billions in electric vehicle subsidies - $7,500 per auto purchase - to the affluent to solve a non-crisis, climate change. 2 min. Original aired Nov. 16, 2023 on Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

Headline: Car Radio, Podcast 130: EV subsidies and the homeless

Car Radio 910AM-Detroit: Podcast, November 14, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

Santa Monica, California - Volvo’s premium electric brand, Polestar, announces its full model lineup at Polestar Day. Payne reports on the milestone for Chinese auto conglomerate Geely – which owns both Swedish brands – as it enters the US market. Polestar’s lineup is exclusively battery-powered to go head-to-head against other EV brands like Tesla, Cadillac, and Jaguar. 2 min. Original aired Nov. 14, 2023 on Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

Headline: Car Radio, Podcast 129: LIVE at Polestar Day, Los Angeles

Car Radio 910AM-Detroit: Podcast, November 9, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

Road Atlanta - Veteran Hagerty auto racing reporter Steven Cole Smith recaps the 2023 IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship, how Cadillac beat Porsche Penske, and what is next for Corvette Racing. 2 min. Original aired Nov. 9, 2023 on Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

Alfa Romeo North America Chief Larry Dominque talks about the brand’s reboot as an electric carmaker, plug-in hybrid’s, and Alfa’s new-found reputation for quality.2 min. Original aired Nov. 2, 2023 on Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

Car Radio 910AM-Detroit: Auto Report Oct. 24, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

The US auto industry is being upended by government regulations aimed at preventing a climate crisis. But there is no climate crisis. Like other misbegotten government claims – think the CIA’s false assertion that Iraq and weapons mass destruction– the climate crisis is a politically-motivated campaign pedaled by agencies like the US EPA and UN IPCC. “If you apply the proposed government regulations to the auto industry, they will have no climate impact,” says University of Alabama-Huntsville climatologist John Christy. “If you eliminate the US economy from the face of the earth, it will have no impact on global temperature.” 2 min. Original aired Oct. 24, 2023 on Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

Car Radio, Auto Report 910AM-Detroit: Podcast 125, Oct. 19, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

IMSA President John Doonan talks at Road Atlanta about how America’s biggest sportscar racing series is navigating the current political climate. In the mist of the most intrusive government regulation in the auto industry since the 1970s, motorsports is thriving with a remarkable 18 brands represented at this year’s Petit Le Mans finale. Motorsports has learned to navigate the regulatory thicket with new technology and alternate fuels. 2 min. Original aired Oct. 19 on Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

Car Radio, Auto Report 910AM-Detroit: Oct. 17, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

Indy 500 winner and IndyCar superstar Josef Newgarden talks about his first race behind the wheel of the Porsche Penske 963 hybrid prototype. Not just any race, but the season finale of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship as Team Penske goes for the title. Newgarden talks hybrid race cars and his ambitions for a Le Mans 24-hour entry. 2 min. Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

The Auto Report 910AM-Detroit: Oct. 12, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

Lingenfelter Engineering is one of America’s best-known mod shops, producing high-horsepower variants of Chevrolet’s iconic Corvette, Camaro, and truck brands. CEO Ken Lingenfelter is also a committed philanthropist and collector. He talks about the Lingenfelter Collection Open House that brings together his two passions: opening his huge car collection to the public to raise money for the Pink Fund and breast cancer awareness. 2 min. Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF

Car Radio 910AM-Detroit: Oct. 10, 2023

Host: Henry Payne, Auto columnist, The Detroit News

Government mandates that automakers only produce electric cars by 2035 – regardless of consumer preference –is putting political sand in the industry’s gears. It’s driving up car prices necessitating $7,500 tax subsidies to buy EVs. Subsidies necessitates that only EVs built in the US qualify. Which limits the number of affordable EVs that qualify which defeats the purpose of mandating EVs in the first place. It’s also provoked a UAW strike fearful of losing jobs as the US becomes more dependent on its chief foreign rival, China, for batteries. 2 min. Auto Report, 910AM-Detroit WFDF