Ford Motor Co. will further penetrate the cross/utility vehicle (CUV) segment in 2004, Ward's has learned. Sources say the vehicle resembling a fusion of beefy wagon and streamlined SUV will roll off the line at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant...
It's time for dealers to get on board. That's the message the Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) organization will preach at this month's National Automobile Dealers Association convention. The one-year-old STAR committee was...
Honda won the popularity contest for having the most vehicles which shoppers researched online in the last quarter of 2001, according to a top 10 list compiled by Chrome Systems Corp., an automotive data provider. Honda tops the list nationwide...
It's last call for Chrysler Prowlers in 2002. First offered only in purple, Chrysler will offer its final run of 300 Prowlers in Deep Candy Red. It's a color that will instantly be recognizable in the hot rod community, says Tom Marinelli...
Last year, Chrysler reorganized its field organization into five regional business centers. The idea was to allow the company's field staff to make decisions on vehicle content, incentives and marketing in each region. The shakeup was intended to...
Toyota Financial Services' beginnings date to 1983 with a loan for a used Corolla. The company then began opening full-service branches to handle dealer and customer financial services. A local office would get so big, and a new branch would open...
WAS ESTATE TAX TRULY REFORMED? NO After fanfare and political rhetoric, President Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. During the election, and up to the recent signing, partisan debate primarily centered on...
Welcome to the eighth annual installment of the Ward's 10 Best Engines awards. Our list of the year's best engines remains the auto industry's only best of list to concentrate solely on the engine, what we consider to be any vehicle's single most...
Here are two quotes on the benefits of training, and the potential results: Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Daniel J. Boorstin. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows Sydney J. Harris. These...
(Editor's note: Pennsylvania dealer Peter Brandow provides the following tips some sarcastic, some not on how automakers' representatives and dealers might get along better.). For dealers, senior management is our zone manager. Whomever he reports...