by Phil Jackson | May 18, 2023
Buying a new EV isn’t as easy as it could be. While the Inflation Reduction Act has a long-term goal of promoting ownership of electric vehicles in the US, in the short-term things are confusing. Fewer than a dozen EVs qualify for the full $7500 tax credit if...
by Phil Jackson | May 3, 2023
There is no better indicator of the present state of change in the automotive industry than the new car inventory across our group. Go back 5 years ago or so, and pretty much our entire inventory was a traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. We did have...
by Phil Jackson | Apr 20, 2023
Rear-wheel-drive is making a comeback. This year Volvo announced it would reverse a company policy and produce rear-wheel-drive (RWD) cars for the first time in 25 years. Volvo’s policy was that front-wheel-drive (FWD) cars are safer because they typically do a better...
by Phil Jackson | Apr 6, 2023
The pluses of electric cars are myriad: quieter driving, ridiculous torque and acceleration, more pure driving fun, less maintenance needed, and so forth. And there certainly are challenges ahead with electric cars – charging infrastructure probably being the...
by Phil Jackson | Mar 22, 2023
Has the world reached peak ICE? Sales of internal combustion engine (ICE) passenger vehicles reached a peak of 86 million in 2017 (this number includes traditional hybrids like the Prius). In that same year electric and plug-in hybrids amounted to just over 1 million...
by Phil Jackson | Mar 8, 2023
On this International Womens Day, here is a great quote we recently read in Automotive News: “The reason why women aren’t drawn to our industry is because they think we’re selling cars. If they knew that it was so much more about the people, this...
by Phil Jackson | Feb 24, 2023
Amazingly, it has been 15+ years since Village Automotive operated a location in MetroWest. Back in the summer of 2007 we sold Saab City USA (aka, Framingham Saab) to concentrate on our main Saab location – Charles River Saab in Watertown. 16 years later Saab is...
by Phil Jackson | Feb 14, 2023
We are proud to accounce that the Village Automotive Group has acquired a new location, Brigham-Gill Village Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram, located at 817 Worcester St in Natick on the westbound side of Route 9, a mile before the Natick Mall. “We are tremendously excited to...
by Phil Jackson | Feb 9, 2023
Apparently more and more electric cars are being produced without the option of AM radio. Carmakers say that electric cars generate more electromagnetic interference than ICE cars, which disrupts AM radio reception (FM radio signals are more resistant to this type of...
by Phil Jackson | Jan 25, 2023
Gasoline demand in America has peaked according to government forecasts. American drivers are using less fuel due to more efficient engines and the onset of a critical mass of electric vehicles. There is still a huge demand for gasoline, and the current levels of fuel...
