Toyota Expands its SUV Stable And Highlander makes five ... SANTA FE, NM - I'm duly impressed. As expected, the ABS with brake assist works fine, thank you.Slightly unexpected early snows in the mountains of northern New Mexico make for a dicey...
Make your web site more than a testimonial to its designer While it's easy enough to throw money at the web to create a web site, getting people to actually stop by is another matter. Without proper promotion, auto dealer web sites most likely...
Leveraging the annual Ward's award program on the showroom floor and elsewhere at the dealershipEveryone knows that today's vehicle shopper is more informed than ever before, which makes a sales-person's job a lot more difficult. Solid features...
One of the nicest guys in the business, Ford Motor Co.'s vice president of research, William F. Powers, has retired from the company. Taking his place? Gerhard Schmidt, curiously jettisoning a decade in the world's greatest job: director of...
For an editor who spends her days pouring over sobering stories about business strategies of global automakers in foreign countries, being a member of this year's Best Engines voting bunch was pure pleasure. Twice so, since I spend my time...
CHELSEA, MI If DaimlerChrysler AG can just hurry up and get this new Jeep compact sport/utility vehicle (SUV), the 2002 Liberty, to market, it'll go a long way toward balming the cross-continental squabbling. It's usually easier to bury the...
If you believe the media, it's crisis time at Chrysler (DaimlerChrysler Corp.) again. There are some people in the industry that claim that this is a natural event, like the coming of the locust, and it happens about every 10 years. Well, I don't...
Okay, I'll admit it: I have mixed feelings about The List. On one hand, I'm proud to have lobbied for Toyota's parallel hybrid Prius. Technical innovation gets rewarded in this game, and we're acknowledging one powertrain advance toward the future...
OK. Enough of all these voting fraud theories. I spent most of November and the beginning of December reading and listening to arguments that either the Republicans or the Democrats were trying to steal the election in Florida. Well, the ballot...