Exploring the: Automotive Management Zone
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- Opel: Paradise Lost
- In keeping with yesterday’s piece about some of the travails of the Euro auto industry, it is interesting to note that General Motors Opel is offering German buyers of its vehicles a variant on the now-lapsed Chevy money-back guarantee program.
Blog Published: 9/25/2012
- Listening to Leone on the Cadillac ATS
- It doesn’t take a Kreskin to predict that the 2013 Cadillac compact sport sedan, which is now ramping up at the GM Lansing Grand River Assembly facility, where it is being built on the same line as the Cadillac CTS, will become Cadillac’s best-selli...
Blog Published: 9/17/2012
- Toyota on Suppliers
- Although there was a record turnout of attendees at the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City this week, presumably some of you we’re Up North this week, and if you were up there, you may have found yourself wa...
Blog Published: 8/10/2012
- GM’s Product Development Approach
- An excerpt from the prepared comments by GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson for 2012 GM Stockholders Meeting: “But the most profound changes are occurring in product development.
Blog Published: 6/12/2012
- Scintillating at Any Speed
- Last Monday, Memorial Day in the U.S., we recommended that you might kick back and watch a relaxing-but-possibly-invigorating edition of “Autoline After Hours.” But now you are back at work.
Blog Published: 6/4/2012
- Buick, Autoextremist & More
- Assuming that you’re just kicking back today (as it is Memorial Day in the U.S.) and have a little time on your hands, you might want to take about an hour and check out last Thursday’s “Autoline After Hours” show.
Blog Published: 5/28/2012
- FedEx Delivers Fuel Efficiency Improvements
- The benefits of having the right powertrain for the right application are being realized by FedEx Express.
Blog Published: 5/24/2012
- Honda: Seeing Too Far?
- Theodore Levitt, in 1960, published a paper in the Harvard Business Review titled “Marketing Myopia.” Fundamental to the piece is the question, “What market are you in?” One of the famous examples he used is the railroad industry, which was in decli...
Blog Published: 5/18/2012
- Of Mustangs and Molds (and More)
- The 2013 Stage 3 Mustang from ROUSH Performance features a supercharged 5.0-liter engine under its hood that provides 565 hp and 505 lb-ft of torque.
Blog Published: 5/8/2012
- Autoextremist, Motor Trend & autofieldguide
- So you put three guys in a studio with a few cameras and turn them loose to talk about the auto industry.
Blog Published: 4/28/2012