By Casey Williams
MyCarData

(September 23, 2019) INDIANAPOLIS — I doubt the cornfields in Jefferson County, Ind., have ever heard the high wail of a Ferrari V8.  My daughter and I are clipping corners and leveling hills as we blitz to Clifty Falls State Park in the Maserati Levante Trofeo.  I barely slow down as we pass a Methodist Church, in which worshippers surely think I’m bringing The Second Coming when I press the “Corsa” button and exhaust cracks in thunderous rapture.  The big crossover surges forward.

(September 22, 2019) LAKE TAHOE — The Nissan Armada Mountain Patrol has lived life to the fullest in its first 15 months. First unveiled at the 2018 Overland Expo West in Arizona, the project rig has mastered the dunes of The Sahara Desert in Morocco, scaled the rocks of Moab, Utah, and encountered a myriad of terrain in between. But never has it been involved in a competition like the Rebelle Rally.

(September 20, 2019) INEOS Automotive has announced that its utilitarian 4x4 will be named Grenadier after the pub in which it was conceived, with over 6,000 international fans and followers responding to an online poll to choose the vehicle’s name.

INEOS also confirmed that the Grenadier will be built in a new manufacturing facility on a greenfield site in Bridgend, South Wales. This will create 200 jobs initially, and up to 500 in the long term.  Site development is now under way to support planned start of production in 2021.

(September 20, 2019) A high school teacher revitalized his auto shop class in West New York, N.J., by introducing an electric vehicle conversion course. When Ron Grosinger began teaching shop class in 2005 at Memorial High School the program was struggling to survive. In a school facing many challenges, the elective course had dwindled from six teachers to two and rarely offered any hands-on learning, Grosinger says.