Why Change Is Hard

The house that I live in was built in the mid-1960s. For whatever reason—it is the sort of thing that just insidiously happens, creeping up over time—the drain tiles around my foundation are apparently not doing their job anymore. So I am going to be having contractors coming in to do a job on, in or through my basement floor. Which is necessitating my having to shift a lot of things down there, including a vast accumulation of books, which has caused me to spend a lot of time looking at texts from years gone by.

Although my basement situation—the slow, imperceptible failure of a system—certainly serves as a metaphor for much of what is going on in the auto industry today, I can honestly state that I wish that it wasn’t so—for me, or for the auto industry. But there is no getting around the need to change things. – Read More

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Driven Archives

Size Matters
A family traveling on a Swiss motorway got the shock of a lifetime when all four of the cars wheels came off at the same time, right in the middle of the highway.  Thankfully, the car came to safe stop and no one was injured. – Read More

Dude, That’s My Car! And I’m the Dude
A Sterling Heights, MI, man had more than enough of all the solicitors pounding on his door, so he decided to grab his rifle and run one of them off his porch. – Read More

The First Amendment Doesn’t Include Freedom of Parking
A former investigative reporter in Cleveland has found himself on the other side of the microphone as another television reporter caught him using an old press pass to secure prime free parking. – Read More

Upcoming Industry Events:

MoldMaking Expo ’09 – June 22–26
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June 22–26
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Kia Brings It
Although much of the attention in the industry has been focused on (1) the acquisition of Chrysler by Fiat and (2) the appointment of the former head of AT&T to head up General Motors (so much for the importance of so-called “car guys,” eh?), during the past couple days I’ve had the opportunity to learn about something that will, in time, have a big effect on Detroit. ...Read More