Many suppliers believe they're on the cutting edge as the auto industry goes global. What they don't realize is that the cutting edge could be a very sharp axe aimed at their necks.The 1990s is the decade of the mega supplier, and survival of the...
It was two weeks before Christmas, 1992. Visions of sparkling trees and holiday spirit danced in their heads as they drove home from a family gathering. Suddenly there was a loud, deadening crunch and flames shot up in front of the shocked driver...
Response to January's first annual Ward's Best Engines of 1995 feature has been overwhelming. WAW readers, from engineers to executives to suppliers, phoned, faxed and wrote to express their opinions and to support -- or contest -- our 10 Best...
The U.S. should export its safety standards to the world market, suggests Ricardo Martinez, the new head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). "U.S. standards are a good product in the global market because NAFTA (the...
Tenneco Automotive sells its Lincolnshire, IL-based brake division to James E. Bennett Jr. of Charleston, SC, for undisclosed terms. Under Bennett the company, which had $63 million in 1994 sales, will be called Brake Pro Inc. and will continue to...
Siemens Components Inc. will develop a low-cost vehicle collision-warning system that alerts motorists to objects in their blind spots. Siemens predicts the system may become standard equipment on production vehicles by the end of the decade.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is accused of being mean and nasty to a lot of people: the poor, Hillary Clinton, even his ex-wife. Many don't care, or think it's all a media conspiracy to "get" him. But here's a potential victim you won't hear about...
I think we've all heard the saying, "What goes around comes around." If you work in this business long enough, you will come to find out what this really means.The latest craze is for large corporations to reduce the number of suppliers. The...
North American and European automakers will outsource about three-fourths of their seats by 1998, and Lear Seating Inc. (LSI) is taking steps to make certain more backsides on both sides of the Atlantic are cushioned by its seats.Already the No. 1...
The 1995 version of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) a.k.a. the Detroit Auto Show is -- in a word -- explosive. With Ford Motor Co's 1996 Taurus/Sable bowing amid billowing smoke, fire and earthquake effects, Chrysler's '96...