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Chevy’s Once-Controversial Manchester United Deal Now Lauded
Signing a soccer-club sponsorship costing a reported $559 million had led to Joel Ewanick’s GM ouster.
By Steve Finlay • Aug. 13, 2014 -
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U.S. Luxury-Vehicle Sales Heading for Record Year
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.Sales of luxury cars and trucks will hit an all-time high this year as consumers continue to soak them up.Luxury sales based on WardsAuto’s ...
By Haig Stoddard 1 • Aug. 11, 2014 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineAutomotive Manufacturing
Production strategies are changing rapidly as tariffs and shifts in consumer buying patterns affect the industry.
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Research, Salesmanship Equal Priorities for Autoliv
“We have preferred-partner status on what we are doing today,” Autoliv America President Steve Fredin says. “But we are also investing in new things. We are in a box. They say, ‘You are a seatbelt supplier, why talk to us about a radar system?’”
By William Diem • Aug. 8, 2014 -
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Why 707 Horsepower Is Not Enough
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.When Chrysler Group recently unveiled the new 707-hp supercharged 6.2L Hellcat V-8, I have to admit my first reaction was like Bud Fox in th...
By Drew Winter • Aug. 8, 2014 -
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Jag’s Aluminum-Intensive XE Sedan to Bow in London
The Jaguar XE is the first car in the world to use a new grade of high-strength aluminum called RC 5754, which features a high percentage of recycled metal.
By Giancarlo Perini • Aug. 8, 2014 -
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Second-Gen Chevy Volt to Debut at Detroit Auto Show
The new plug-in hybrid will offer improvements in technology and design, says Tim Mahoney, Chevy’s marketing chief.
By Steve Finlay • Aug. 7, 2014 -
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Quick Service a Must, No Matter How It’s Done
Dealers can offer express operations in all sorts of ways.
By Lee Harkins • Aug. 7, 2014 -
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China to Remain Best of the BRICs
Toyota and Fiat-Chrysler are among the laggards in China, trailing by a wide margin leaders GM and VW, which now sell more than 30% of their global volume in the market.
By William Diem • Aug. 6, 2014 -
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Reporter Notebook: Dumb Is Good
WardsAuto writers pass along the buzz at this week’s Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, MI.
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Industry Veteran Theodore Escapes Retirement
Identified closely with the K-car, Dodge Viper and minivan while at Chrysler and the GT and Mustang during his days at Ford, engineer Chris Theodore is keeping active consulting and inventing better turbochargers and EVs.
By David C. Smith • Aug. 6, 2014 -
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A Super Computer in Every Car?
Electronics firm NVIDIA says it has 20 development projects under way with automakers, including one involving a mirror-less car.
By David C. Smith • Aug. 5, 2014 -
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Earlier Better for Logistics Planners
By looking at sourcing questions earlier in the process, a Penske executive says, packaging and travel time can be more efficient.
By William Diem • Aug. 5, 2014 -
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Hold Your Horses, Self-Driving Production Cars Long Way Off
“The last thing we want to do is bring technologies to market with unintended consequences,” says John Capp of GM.
By Steve Finlay • Aug. 5, 2014 -
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First Element Sees Five-Year Path to Profitability
Not surprisingly, the initial FEF hydrogen dispensers mainly will be in major metropolitan areas, with a few exceptions.
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Auto Sales Speed Along, But What’s That Barrier Ahead?
“It is tough to see consumers paying $3,000 more for the same car just because someone in Washington says you have to buy it,” says NADA’s chief economist.
By Steve Finlay • Aug. 5, 2014 -
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Reporter Notebook: A Dauch By Any Other Name
WardsAuto writers pass along the buzz at this week’s Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, MI.
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AAM’s Dauch Calls for U.S. Manufacturing Revival
Challenges facing the U.S. manufacturing sector include cost pressures, adapting to new technology, finding and retaining skilled workers and overcoming what the executive calls structural cost burdens.
By David C. Smith • Aug. 4, 2014 -
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Automotive Beckons to Aluminum Pop-Can King Novelis
The aluminum producer now has several new alloys promising better strength or new formability in the process of approval by customers.
By William Diem • Aug. 4, 2014 -
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The Motor City Is Still the Motor City
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.A few days ago, I drove through Pontiac, MI, 25 miles (40 km) north of Detroit, where General Motors used to produce and engineer trucks. Mu...
By David Smith 1 • Aug. 4, 2014 -
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BEA to Release Revised SAAR Factors on Sales Reporting Day
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.The U.S. Bureau of Economic Affairs is schedule to release annual seasonal factors on August 1, 2014, the same day that most automakers rele...
By John Sousanis 1 • July 31, 2014 -
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Violence, Economic Crisis Hit Ukraine Auto Industry
ZAZ, the country’s only full-cycle automaker, manufactured only 10,622 cars in first-half 2014, compared with 252,476 in 2008, and may halt production in September because of parts shortages.
By Peter Homola • July 30, 2014 -
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Jaguar Land Rover Acquires Vintage-Car Collection
Jaguars comprise about one-quarter of the 543-vehicle collection amassed by James Hull, a British car enthusiast, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
By Alan Harman • July 30, 2014 -
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Go Mobile or Go Home
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.I just returned home to Atlanta after a 2-day speaking adventure in Dayton and Columbus, OH. Still traveling 200 days a year, somehow I envi...
By Jim Ziegler 2 • July 29, 2014 -
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U.S. LV SAAR Could Hit 17 Million in July
The latest WardsAuto forecast calls for U.S. automakers to sell 1.47 million light vehicles this month, which would lift the SAAR to 17 million for the first time in eight years.
By John Sousanis • July 25, 2014 -
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New for ’20: The HALcat
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.Muscle cars are becoming more muscular. Autonomous cars keep getting more autonomous. Will the technologies merge and, if they do, what will...
By Jim Irwin • July 21, 2014
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