It's a mild, spring day in Manhattan, and Hiromu Okabe is in good spirits. He should be. It's not every day that an automotive supplier visits the New York Stock Exchange to receive the prestigious Chairman's Award from J.D. Power & Associates. In...
Audi AG will equip the next-generation A8, due to arrive in Germany as an '03 model in August, with its innovative Multi Media Interface (MMI), a tool that allows drivers to dial and click their way through music, phone calls, directions to the...
NEW YORK The Big Apple is the epitome of Big City America home to the Yankees, the Rockettes, the Statue of Liberty and a newly kindled patriotism. So it was a bit surprising to see the domestic Big Three barely making news at the New York Auto...
The Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, MI, announces seven inductees into its class of 2002, including Fiat SpA founder Giovanni Agnelli, National Automobile Dealers Assn. President Frank McCarthy (both deceased) and NASCAR driver Richard Petty...
Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman must love to gloat. At the groundbreaking of Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd.'s first U.S. plant in Montgomery, AL, in mid-April the governor couldn't contain his excitement. When we break ground today, that crunching sound will...
Wave two of component sharing between the Chrysler Group and Mercedes-Benz is under way, says a top Chrysler Group official. The sharing includes going to the supply base to discuss long-range, high-volume plans for parts that are similar but not...
An amazing number and variety of new models are coming on the market. The Mini, the Maybach, the Aviator, the G35 and M45, the Ion and the Five Hundred, the Murano and the Beetle Convertible, the Cayenne and the GTO, the CrossTrainer and the...
Bob Lutz has discovered the cure for the common car at General Motors Corp. Too bad he had to travel halfway around the world to find it. It was late February when the jetlagged vice chairman and a team of top executives from the No.1 auto maker...
Politics, religion and Ford vs. Chevy are universally recognized as taboo topics for folks who value lasting relationships. Now add a fourth forbidden forum of discussion Roots-type vs. the screw supercharger. The debate over which blower is best...
SAN DIEGO Credibility, thy name is G35. Barely a decade into its crusade to stand toe-to-toe with German-made sport/luxury sedans, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.'s Infiniti upscale division launches its most convincing thrust yet, the athletic and...