Much of the auto industry is contracting and downsizing, but not EDS. The information technology company founded by Ross Perot and later partly owned by General Motors Corp. has been quietly executing a growth strategy that promises to drastically...
PSA Peugeot-Citroen says its overall sales were 3.1 million units in 2001, an 11.3% jump over 2000 sales levels. The company says it expects overall sales for 2002 to rise 3.7% to 3.25 million units and maintains its commitment to sell 3.5 million...
TOCHIGI, Japan First comes the countdown. Then, to the sound of an alarming buzzer, two cars emerge from opposing doorways, 284 yds. (260 m) apart. And they're headed straight toward one another. Watching the vehicles on their course of doom is...
All General Motors Corp. employees now are entitled to use a new premium, subscription website, part of WardsAuto.com, that provides all Ward's Communications content as soon as the stories are written and the statistics compiled. The service...
Overtime hours in 2001 on North American light-vehicle assembly lines were cut nearly in half from the prior year, and total hours worked were down by 8.1%, based on a Ward's analysis. North American light-vehicle production ended the year at 15...
At last October's Tokyo Motor Show, Rolf Eckrodt new Mitsubishi Motors Corp. chief operating officer, just shy of a year on the job, took the stage to the strains of the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour. The musical selection is one indication that...
CAFE won't budge Trucks are the only things keeping Ford and Chrysler alive in the U.S. Raising CAFE would kill both companies. Sen. Kerry may not realize this, but most everyone else does.Barry von SteinenIndustrial Design Executive...
The American Iron and Steel Institute has not sat around and waited in recent years for inquiries from auto makers about using advanced steels in new applications. AISI has been serving up ready-for-production concepts of auto bodies, suspensions...
The Chrysler Group has Ford Motor Co. and, to a lesser extent, General Motors Corp. clearly in its sights with the creation of a performance-tuning specialty vehicle group. Ford has its long-standing Specialty Vehicle Engineering group, and GM...
DETROIT Ford Motor Co. hopes silence is indeed golden, having pulled out all the stops to reduce NVH in its refreshed '03 Expedition. Along with more packaging refinement and a couple of genuine surprise-and-delight features the all-new Expedition...