The shock waves from Ford Motor Co.'s major restructuring announcement in January still are reverberating throughout the automotive industry. But while the focus has been on the Dearborn, MI-based auto maker, little attention has been given to...
The departure of the major Tier 1 suppliers from the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit was a blessing of sorts this year for lower-tier suppliers that often toil in obscurity but nonetheless play a vital role in testing...
It's Aug. 16, 1999. The place: an Oklahoma City courtroom where a jury hears testimony in Clingenpeel v. Toyota Motor Corp. The case stems from a crash involving a '93 Camry. High school cheerleader Amber Clingenpeel was a rear passenger, wearing...
The European Union was screaming bloody murder when the Bush Admin. announced in early March tariffs ranging from 8% to 30% over the next several years against foreign steel. Quickly filing a protest with the World Trade Organization, the stern...
Ford Motor Co. hasn't pushed back any new-model programs, Chris Theodore, vice president-North American product, tells WAW. We haven't pulled back anything; the other guys (auto makers) have. We got honest with ourselves last July and August, set...
BARCELONA, Spain There is a cathedral here in this partying port city that the Spanish have been working on for more than a century. When the Sagrada Familia Church is completed in about 25 years, huge amounts of money will have been spent, years...
PASADENA, CA John Coletti acts like a proud papa as he boasts that during its 10-year history the Ford Motor Co.'s Special Vehicle Team (SVT) has built its 100,000th vehicle, a 2002 SVT F-150 Lightning pickup. It doesn't matter to Coletti, chief...
KANANASKIS, Alberta The Kananaskis Lodge was built to accommodate skiers for the 1988 Olympics in nearby Calgary, Alberta. It still houses skiers, and offers a shuttle to nearby Nakiska ski resort. But the shuttle won't take skiers to nearby...
There's a new kid in town in the hotly contested market for automotive brake systems, and the stakes are high as this new player from Japan potentially could leapfrog to the world's No.2 position within a few years. Advics Co. Ltd. combines the...
CAPETOWN, South Africa The moment of truth draws near for Bentley Motor Cars Ltd. The race-bred British ultra-luxury-car builder is approaching the starting line of an aggressive make-it-or-break-it growth strategy designed to swell annual sales...