{"id":233102,"date":"2022-10-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=233102"},"modified":"2022-10-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:00:00","slug":"week-ahead-new-vehicle-intros-renewed-deals-and-drivin-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2022\/10\/week-ahead-new-vehicle-intros-renewed-deals-and-drivin-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Ahead: New Vehicle Intros, Renewed Deals and Drivin\u2019 Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Later this month, Detroit-area automakers Ford and GM \u2014 with Stellantis to follow in early November \u2014 will release their third quarter earnings results, which is to say, they\u2019re going to be relatively quiet for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VW’s Chattanooga, Tennessee plant started production of the ID.4 a few months back.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

However, we\u2019ve still got plenty to write about this week, starting with our review of the 2023 Kia Niro. We headed just north of San Diego for a few days last month at the invitation of the South Korean brand to drive the new crossover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I can\u2019t reveal much here, Kia\u2019s forged a new public perception about the brand \u2014 increasing sales in the process \u2014 with the expansion of its utility vehicle line-up. Find out what we think of the 2023 model Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also spent a few days driving the 2023 Volkswagen ID.4 in Nashville recently \u2014 the now U.S.-built ID.4.\u00a0That review also makes its debut Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the business side, Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s been green lighted to resume his pursuit of social media outlet Twitter. The company\u2019s stock has bit hit a little bit as he wades back into the morass of that deal. We\u2019ll keep an on eye that effort and any impact it has on the EV sales leader as it also approaches its third quarter earnings report Oct. 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re also back on the road again, headed to Nashville this week to drive the 2023 Toyota Crown, the company\u2019s newest model, as well as going back to California \u2014 this time near Los Angeles \u2014 to check out Honda\u2019s newest CR-V plug-in hybrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With automakers heading into earnings season, they\u2019re going to largely be pretty quiet this week, which gives us time to focus on two new model introductions: the 2023 Kia Niro and Volkswagen ID.4. We\u2019ll also keep an eye on Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s reengagement in his effort to buy Twitter and any impact it may have. Check out all the automotive news at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":222858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,1608,1164,4344,1347,9],"tags":[8174,8171,8173,8172,990,7755],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233109,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233102\/revisions\/233109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233102"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=233102"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=233102"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=233102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}