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Carbon Fiber Cost Benefit
In the mid to late 1980s, I worked on a team that developed an airbag inflator using a carbon-fiber outer shell to replace the then-current steel containment cylinder (see WAW Oct. '09, p.3). The weight savings were greater than 60%, and the device withstood the enormous pressures and temperatures developed within. In addition, the team developed a lightweight non-metallic carbon-fiber and adhesive
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Chinese Auto Maker Woos U.S. Dealers
The Brilliance Auto Group is wending its way through North America regulatory processes as it seeks to become the first China-built vehicle lineup to go on sale in the U.S. We've signed up dealers representing more than 30 locations and are negotiating with dozens more, says David Shelburg Sr., who at age 80 is known to hundreds of dealers after a long career of developing dealership organizations,
By Mac Gordon • Dec. 1, 2009 -
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Malaysia’s New National Auto Policy Too Little Too Late
Experts say the revised policy, which takes effect Jan. 1, ignores the main problem: a small domestic market that is unfairly tilted in favor of two privileged state-owned car companies.
By Mack Chrysler • Nov. 25, 2009 -
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Pop Goes Used-Car Values?
Expect a bubble burst in used-car values in the aftermath of the federal government's popular Cash for Clunkers incentive program, says an analyst for Kelley Blue Book, a vehicle-pricing guide. With $3 billion in incentive money and 750,000 new vehicles expected to be sold, the success of the clunker program is evident. With a total of 750,000 vehicles being removed from the marketplace, dealers are
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Cha-Ching Clunkers
Cash for Clunkers is over after generating nearly 707,000 direct sales, along with indirectly aiding countless other sales for customers not eligible for the program. Now what? Most analysts are afraid September sales will experience a downturn without the popular government financing. Many of you have stories of crowded showrooms and of customers racing to the dealership in the hours before Cash
By Cliff Banks Editorial Director 248-799-2649 [email protected] • Sept. 1, 2009 -
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Ta-Ta Clunkers; Now What?
Cash for Clunkers has been a surprise success to many, including government. Hopefully, we won't have a serious dead spot now that Clunkers is kaput. We all know how rebates can be like getting on drugs. Training consumers not to buy until the next program contributes to a whip saw market that makes good consumer satisfaction impossible. It also makes marketing dependent on loading up dealers' inventories
By David Ruggles • Sept. 1, 2009 -
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Electronics Taking Over Safety
Sophisticated new safety features may be one of the most compelling arguments for convincing wary consumers to trade in their current vehicles.
By Drew Winter • Aug. 31, 2009 -
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U.S. Government Endorses Oz-Developed UltraBattery
Pennsylvania-based East Penn says in certain tests the new battery exceeded the lifecycle of its nickel-metal-hydride counterpart for hybrid-vehicle applications.
By Alan Harman • Aug. 20, 2009 -
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Dealer-Lawyer Joins Board
Pasadena, CA Victoria Pearson, the new dealer member of the powerful California New Motor Vehicle Board, is at age 40 three years younger than the luxury-brand group created by her father in the Los Angeles market. In keeping with marketing skills advanced by Paul P. Rusnak making Rusnak Auto Group No.1 in volume sales for the Jaguar brand in the U.S. this year his daughter wants the vehicle board
By Mac Gordon • Aug. 1, 2009 -
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California Tries Stricter Emissions by Regulating Car Parts
Auto makers, environmentalists and the Obama White House reached an historic agreement two months ago, raising U.S. fuel economy rules and putting to rest years of bickering over California's right to set its own emissions standards. But the state regulator in the nation's largest new-vehicle market continues to flex its administrative muscle. The California Air Resources Board recently adopted a
By James M. Amend with Drew Winter • Aug. 1, 2009 -
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It’s Official: CARB is Designing Our Cars
There's a Joke going Around the Auto industry that the only car auto makers soon will be able to sell in California will be Fred Flintstone's foot-powered Flintmobile. But by 2012, even Flintstone's ride may not pass muster in the Golden State because it is not equipped with the special windows and low-rolling-resistance tires that likely will be required. Thumbing its nose at the Obama Admin.'s view
By Drew Winter • Aug. 1, 2009 -
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$2 Billion Boost for CARS Goes Before Senate
Dealers are thrilled, if beleaguered, by the news because NHTSA server traffic has been so heavy, sales reps have been unable to register transactions.
By James M. Amend and Eric Mayne • July 31, 2009 -
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Cash-for-Clunkers Hit and Misses
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.Is the government's program proving to be too popular? Sales at many dealerships are going through the roof with many reporting selling more...
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Cash-for-Clunkers an Early Hit, Dealers Say
Dealers are reporting such strong cash-for-clunker sales, some experts predict the $1 billion government fund could run out of money as early as next week.
By Cliff Banks • July 29, 2009 -
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It’s Official: CARB is Designing Our Cars
CARB’s new strategy of telling auto engineers how to hit fuel economy targets in addition to mandating them is bizarre and potentially dangerous.
By Drew Winter • July 23, 2009 -
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Dealers Gear Up for Cash-for-Clunkers
The government incentive scheme already is generating sales, dealers say, although NHTSA has yet to publish the final rules.
By Cliff Banks • July 9, 2009 -
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CARB Cools Paint Mandate
To the relief of automotive paint suppliers and auto makers, the California Air Resources Board has announced it is shelving for now its controversial plan to mandate the phase-in of heat-reflecting paints. The regulation would have required use of the new paints on vehicles beginning with the '12 model year, with all colors meeting a 20% reflectivity requirement by '16. The CARB measure was aimed
By Drew Winter • May 1, 2009 -
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Schwarzenegger Calls for Energy Policy at SAE World Congress
Detroit would bounce back with the establishment of a national energy policy and a commitment by auto makers to exploit the technologies such a policy would inspire.
By Eric Mayne • April 20, 2009 -
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Tata Seeks Aid From U.K. Government for Jaguar Land Rover
The luxury brands, which were acquired by India’s Tata last year for $2.3 billion, already have laid off 450 workers this year.
By Ward's Staff • March 25, 2009 -
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Malaysia Launches Scrappage Subsidy to Aid Struggling Auto Industry
The government will finance 50% of the scrappage scheme, which pays owners of older vehicles to turn them in and purchase new cars from Proton and Perodua.
By Alan Harman • March 16, 2009 -
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IIHS: CO2 Rules Need CAFE Index
One of the Nation's Leading Safety advocates says if the U.S. government ditches corporate average fuel economy standards in favor of rules limiting carbon-dioxide emissions, as the new Obama Admin. has suggested in recent weeks, regulators must retain a weight/sizing index or risk an uptick in injuries and deaths from car crashes. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety President Adrian Lund also
By James M. Amend • March 1, 2009 -
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New Law Could Spark Abuses
Did you have more than 15 employees for more than 20 weeks in the past year? If you answered then congratulations! You have won the grand prize from the folks that brought you the Crash of 2008! With the ADA Restoration Act (ADARA, S. 1881, H.R. 3195) now any one of your employees can a disability nearly at will! You must be thrilled. A newsletter sent by law firm Fisher & Phillips says: In perhaps
By James E. Lawrence • Dec. 1, 2008 -
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Canada Ponders Auto Industry Aid Package
In recent weeks, as the industry crisis worsened, Canada’s federal government and the Ontario provincial government have indicated they would entertain direct aid packages – a significant departure from current practice.
By Ward's Staff • Nov. 20, 2008 -
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Next-Generation HMIs Should Accommodate Human Behavior
Designers of new HMIs must consider the driver’s most basic needs, as well as enhance driver performance and stimulate driver enthusiasm to improve safety, one expert says.
By James M. Amend • Oct. 21, 2008 -
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Active Safety Technology No Excuse for Poor Driving
Many active driver aids protect motorists from themselves and others on the road, yet if not used responsibly, they have the potential to instill overconfidence and do more harm than good, a supplier executive says.
By Mike Sutton • Oct. 20, 2008
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