Overview Of: Automotive Management

Here you’ll find information from management on the best practices and emerging technologies that help executives and companies operate more efficiently. Management matters.

Automotive Management

How Hyundai Continues to Advance: The 2012 Azera
Gary S. Vasilash

Achieving success in the market isn’t something that happens by chance. There is strategy. Commitment. And product. Hyundai is delivering on all fronts.

Automotive Management

Lexus GS: Four Things
Gary S. Vasilash

The 2013 Lexus GS is the fourth generation of the vehicle. And this time it is designed and engineered to represent what Lexus group vp Mark Templin calls “The new Lexus.”

Automotive Management

How the Chevrolet Sonic Proves Times Have Changed @ GM
Gary S. Vasilash

As vehicle manufacturers begin to focus on global products, small cars take on a new emphasis. And the 2012 Chevrolet Sonic is a new global car, one that is representative of GM’s new competitiveness.

Automotive Management

The Seventh-Generation Toyota Camry
Gary S. Vasilash

Will there be a more significant introduction this year? In a word, “No.” After all, even last year, when it seemed as though there was nothing but bad news and badder luck, Camry was the number-one selling car in the U.S. And now it is brand new.

Automotive Management

Saab's Crossover: 9-4X
Gary S. Vasilash

While the company’s financials seem to be tidal in nature (money in, money out, money in. . .), there is no question that there is solid design and engineering chops behind this new crossover for the historically Swedish marque. Incidentally: It was engineered in the U.S.

Toyota Makes Engine Investments

Gary S. Vasilash

Toyota is investing, to quote Dick Cheney, “big time” in engine production in the U.S.

Honda: Seeing Too Far?

Gary S. Vasilash

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 decline at that time as a mode of personal transportation, as people were taking other alternatives.

Making More Altimas in Smyrna

Gary S. Vasilash

The Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, opened in June, 1983.