Salvador Dali is famous for his surrealistic paintings of wilting clocks and melting globes, and unfortunately, the forecast for car and truck sales in North America next year looks as soft and bizarre as anything Dali could have dreamed up. The...
BOLOGNA, ITALY – Ferrari SpA is in the final stages of completing its E391 million (US$350 million) investment in the Maserati marque, which it acquired in 1997. The company has invested E111 million ($100 million) in the past three years...
While penetration of navigation systems remains at less than 1% of the market, the number of cars, vans and light-trucks models that offer factory-installed navigation systems grew from 26 to 45, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2001...
The product planning budget may be smaller, but each dollar is being stretched further, says Dieter Zetsche, president of the Chrysler Group. The number is in the range of $32 billion for five years. But we are able to do more with this money than...
Elected 2001-02 Detroit Auto Dealers Association officers are (from left) Richard Genthe, Robert Thibodeau, Charles Fortinberry and (right) Bill Cook. Second from right is Rod Alberts, the DADA's executive vp. The 93-year-old organization...
Andrew Koblenz is NADA's new chief operating officer for industry affairs, replacing Phillip Brady who now is the association's president. Mr. Koblenz served as NADA's executive director and special counsel for industry affairs since 1999...
When I worked on the sales floor one of my goals was getting as many potential customers as possible to paper. I'd do everything: from a proper introduction, qualifying questions, a vehicle presentation and demonstration, I would sell the customer...
IT IS PRESUMPTUOUS FOR ME, AN AUTO INDUSTRY columnist and former dealer, to attempt to say how deeply Sept. 11 has changed us. But a depression hangs over every American because of the killings, and it's important not to let that feeling overcome...
"Sir Fix-It" goes to work at Ford world headquarters Affable and recently knighted Nick Scheele becomes COO in post-Nasser era Jaguar was in a bloody mess when Ford Motor Co. bought it for $2 billion in 1989. Back then, Jaguar had a reputation for...
Automotive e-commerce is more than just building a nice web site and selling cars online. It's about managing entire information technology networks and strategies. So being the e-commerce manager for Hendrick Automotive, one of the largest and...