Antonov Automotive Technologies BV officially is on the map. Thanks to a licensing deal signed in late February with Honda Motor Co. Ltd., tiny and little known Netherlands-based Antonov got much more notice at SAE, where it was pitching its...
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...
What diesel engine technology needs, says Ford Motor Co. Chief Operating Officer Nick Scheele, is some good PR. That's why he plans to bring a fleet of European diesel-powered Focuses on a U.S. tour that includes availability to general media and...
Bring out your dead, the cart master's English accent rings out in a scene from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I'm not dead, is the feeble but persistent cry from an old man not ready to be tossed onto the cart. I'm getting better. You...
Subaru-Isuzu Automotive Inc. will build the new 7-passenger cross/utility vehicle under development by General Motors Corp. and partner Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (Subaru) beginning in 2005 as an '06 model, WAW learns. Both will get versions of...