It's 5 lbs. lighter and five bucks cheaper, boasts John Young, marketing manager at Owens-Corning Automotive, pointing to a one-piece door inner module at the company's Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress exhibit. The panel was...
It's a Matter of Cost No. Fuel cells will only become viable when the technology proves more cost effective than the systems now in use. Auto makers around the world are already working on the problem, and government funding of research in the U.S...
Not all that long ago I had the chance to personally meet Giorgietto Giugiaro, the ultra-famous Italian car designer. I gushed, you certainly had a vision of where body styles would be headed in the future. Twenty years ago you said that the one...
Hayes Lemmerz International Inc. will close its Somerset, KY, cast aluminum wheel plant by early April. Hayes Lemmerz says the move is in line with continuing efforts to eliminate excess cost and underutilized capacity. Work will be transferred to...
General Motors Corp. is planning to re-start construction on its Delta Township, MI, assembly plant, industry sources tell WAW, but objections from a neighborhood association might delay work at the nearby Craft Centre that is scheduled to build...
Attendance at this year's Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit was disappointing. For the first time since 1993, fewer than 40,000 people attended the world's largest gathering of automotive engineers. This year's crowd of 37...