So your marketing budget is tighter than a lineman's waist band after Thanksgiving dinner, and you have to decide where to spend those precious dollars to get the word out about your product. You have two choices: Buy a booth at a trade show such...
When Ford Motor Co. sources first confirmed '03 Lincoln Navigator would have independent rear suspension (see WAW May, '01, p.13), it was as if a gauntlet had been thrown at the feet of its competitors. Now Lincoln is dropping both gloves, hockey...
Yes: Good times will roll Yes, definitely actually, no question about it.Name withheld Yes, I do believe that good times will return to the industry. I'm of the mindset that the auto makers might even roll out their mid-year models earlier in an...
SAN ANTONIO, TX My driving partner and I are sitting at a stoplight in trendy downtown San Antonio when a well-dressed businessman stands at the crosswalk and gives us a big thumbs up. That the new 7-Series? he asks. we say. What do you think? he...
As it seeks to hone its core competencies, Visteon Corp. sells its Restraint Electronics plant in Markham, Ont., to Autoliv Inc. for $25 million as part of a restructuring effort that will result in 1,600 job cuts and a first-quarter charge of up...
Magna International Inc. confirms it has an agreement to purchase the Eurostar assembly plant in Graz, Austria, from DaimlerChrysler AG for an undisclosed price. The deal should close in summer. Chrysler Group President and CEO Dieter Zetsche says...
Ford Motor Co.'s Ford, Jaguar and Volvo engineers are developing a new 6-speed manual transmission to meet the need for a front-wheel-drive transaxle to handle higher horsepower for increased performance in FWD cars, WAW is told. Mazda Motor Corp...
John Z. DeLorean never will be ranked with such General Motors Corp. luminaries as founder William C. Durant, financial genius Alfred P. Sloan Jr. or engineering wizard Charles F. Kettering but he's had his moments. It has been nearly 30 years...
If there's doubt the Ward's staff adores Audi AG's light-pressure turbocharged 1.8L DOHC I-4 (and the A4 1.8T Avant that wraps it), any uncertainty is quickly dispelled by the A4's odometer: nearly 30,000 miles (48,000 km) in just nine months...