NEMACOLIN, PA There's a new Honda CR-V in this woodsy eastern Pennsylvania town. Normally, that would mean it's High Noon for the competition. It's just that town's a lot bigger place than it used to be. When Honda Motor Co. Ltd. launched the CR-V...
The Patent & License Exchange (www.pl-x.com), which provides information regarding intellectual property valuation, marketing and monetization products, recently named the 10 automotive and transportation technology niche markets. P&LE's top 10...
I don't know about you, but the only time I hear from the company that built our family car is when it sends us recall notices. Although car companies often brag about how they are, they never really talk to their customers. Oh yes, they do buy a...
DETROIT We like to do extended evaluations of a couple of each year's new Ward's Ten Best Engines winners, because we think it adds perspective that's not always available from the 10-day tests during the Ten Best Engines competition itself. But...
Zero-percent financing offered by The Big Three in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack has fueled a significant upswing in the U.S. light-vehicle market, as Ward's data shows sales have gone through the roof during the first two weeks of October. The...
It's rare for an elite sports car maker to share the stage with one of its suppliers, but it happened last month in Memphis, where Porsche Cars North America and the Bose Corp. split 50-50 the cost of a media ride-and-drive event for the 2002...
62 Years Ago Opening on Nov. 4, 1939, the National Automotive Show in Chicago brought the American public the first look at a revolutionary, if expensive, automotive accessory when Packard Motor Car Co. displayed the first production car with an...
Mergers, unfortunately, will continue If the real true business cost was reported, of changing the acquired company method of doing business (the process, product, workforce and lost profit) to make it operate as the business plan states it should...
General Motors Corp. gets a big assist from German supplier Kolbenschmidt Pierburg AG in manufacturing a key powertrain component for the new 2002 Saturn Vue, which goes on sale in the coming weeks. GM joint venture Fiat-GM Powertrain produces the...
A story about Tenneco Automotive's new Computerized Electronic Suspension (Oct. '01, p.63) should have said the system requires no special hydraulic fluid.