Exploring the: Automotive Production Zone
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- Lawrence Tech Design School, Cars, Controversy & More
- According to Keith Nagara, Henry Ford once asked a couple of brothers about establishing an educational curriculum to address the needs that he was facing at the Ford Motor Company. Those brothers had the surname “Lawrence.” And so...
Blog Published: 12/8/2012
- More McLaren Carbon Fiber
- As has been mentioned before, McLaren Group is a builder of composite-intensive vehicles, and its McLaren GT group, which produces race cars, is getting even more intense with the 12C GT Can-Am Edition.
Blog Published: 11/27/2012
- Fiat 500: A Million of Them
- Fiat has produced the one-millionth Fiat 500.
Blog Published: 11/23/2012
- More Than a Million GM Diesels Manufactured in Moraine
- Although you can’t buy a GM car in the U.S. that’s equipped with a diesel engine, that is going to change next year, when a Chevrolet Cruze with a 2.0-liter turbo will be offered.
Blog Published: 11/19/2012
- Sometimes You Feel Like a Car, Sometimes You Don’t
- Nowadays, it seems, just having a vehicle that can transport a person on land or on the water seems to be not enough.
Blog Published: 10/24/2012
- Porsche in Lower Saxony
- Whenever you see a picture like this, where there is a bunch of people wearing ties surrounding a car, a couple guys in suits behind the wheel, giants signs, and factory workers wondering how they’re going to make up production time, you can know th...
Blog Published: 9/21/2012
- 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
- Ford Hits Manufacturing Milestone
- If you want a great sense of what “mass production” really means—and we’re talking about mass production of what is arguably one of the most complex products produced—then consider these facts from Ford, developed to mark its production of 350-milli...
Blog Published: 9/3/2012
- Mini and the Issue of Vehicular Profitability
- Readers of the British publication Autocar and of its website have voted on “the greatest British car ever made,” and the results are interesting, if not not entirely unexpected.
Blog Published: 8/31/2012
- The Economics of Development for Electric Vehicles
- One of the primary characteristics of the auto industry since its early days has been a drive to profitably increase production.
Blog Published: 7/30/2012