RPM AUTOMOTIVE NEWS

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR KEY AUTOMOTIVE EXPERTS

As we went to press with this edition of RPM, the world was still dealing with the pandemic called COVID-19, aka coronavirus. Like you, we at Four Wheeler had to modify our norm in many ways. We had severe disappointment over the cancellation of the annual Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, and found ourselves doing this thing called “squats” to avoid the Freshman 15 from working at home with 40 loaves of banana bread as our rotating cubicle mate.

Automakers were also affected by the lockdown, switching from mass production of vehicles to producing life-saving equipment, like ventilators and PPE equipment.

Since life became different, RPM is also temporarily different for the next few issues. Rather than report on the industry’s happenings since there was very little going on that was automotive-related, we’re going to talk with key automotive engineers, designers, and others from Jeep, Toyota, Ram, and Nissan about cool technology, their first 4x4—and