Meeting a target date set four years ago, GM's new Grand River Plant in Lansing, MI, began assembly of the Cadillac CTS for shipment to customers Nov. 12. Jim Taylor, VLE for prestige vehicles, says the date was fixed four years ago to coincide...
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Honda Motor Co. Ltd. begins mass production at its Lincoln, AL, plant Nov. 14, six months ahead of schedule. Honda Manufacturing of Alabama is building the Odyssey minivan and the V-6 engine that powers it. The Alabama plant currently is operating...
To me, first and foremost, we're in the car and truck business. We're designing, developing, building and selling cars and trucks. If you're going to do that, you've got to have the process that delivers things on time, at quality, and on cost...
In a half century of reporting I have never seen any business plagued by such misinformation as the automobile industry. Think for a minute: Can you imagine that the state of California would order the airline companies to provide every traveler...
The threat of terrorism since Sept. 11 has massively tightened security along the 4,000-mile long U.S.-Canada border, and checkpoints that once took minutes to clear have taken hours. That's a problem for automakers and suppliers using just-in...
GREENVILLE, SC This is BMW country. Or at least you'd think it should be. The German automaker has been churning out sports cars and sport/utility vehicles at its nearby Spartanburg plant for the last several years. Since BMW's arrival in the mid...
As the sponsor of the recent Specialty Equipment Market Assn. show in Las Vegas, General Motors Corp. takes center stage by displaying more than 175 variously modified GM vehicles, including five Chevy Cavaliers, a twin-turbo Cadillac Escalade, a...
MODENA, Italy Driving along portions of the famed Mille Miglia race route in the Italian countryside, it becomes crystal clear just what a significant piece of history this route has been for the development of some of the best cars to crisscross...
What a difference a year makes. Last October GM Chief Rick Wagoner still was on the fence over whether to wade into the Daewoo bidding wars yet again. We have to make a call fairly soon as to whether or not we're seriously going to go at it, he...