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Vietnam Gearing Up for Rapid Auto Industry Growth
The government has ambitious plans to develop an industrial platform that will turn this Cold War-era nation into Asia’s newest tiger economy, playing catch-up with its more industrialized neighbors.
By Edd Ellison • Nov. 15, 2010 -
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Emerging Markets, Safety Push to Boost Telematics Penetration, ITS Japan Official Says
Developing a system that allows two cars to communicate with each other to avoid a collision is “our ultimate goal,” ITS Chairman Hiroyuki Watanabe says in an interview.
By Roger Schreffler • Sept. 27, 2010 -
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Peru Sees Strong Vehicle Sales Rally Amid Government Reforms
Experts contend the auto industry’s future hinges on the federal government’s ability to reassert limits on used-vehicle imports and wrest back regulatory control of the market.
By Erik Derr • Sept. 21, 2010 -
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2025 CAFE Proposal Likely to be 60 MPG
Both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Admin. are expected to propose auto makers achieve a fleet-fuel economy of up to 60 mpg (3.9 L/100 km) when the two agencies release their first estimates on potential mandates for 2025 this month. The federal offices, along with the California Air Resources Board, recently concluded a round of information gathering
By James M. Amend • Sept. 1, 2010 -
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Nanofiber Material Promises Better Li-ion Batteries
It looks like a roll of duct tape, but it is very sophisticated stuff that promises to significantly improve the performance and safety of lithium-ion batteries. Shown off for the first time at a recent automotive conference, it is a nanofiber-based polymeric battery separator DuPont Co. says can increase battery power 15% to 20%, increase battery life up to 20% and improve battery safety by providing
By Drew Winter • Sept. 1, 2010 -
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Merging Malaysia’s National Car Companies Hard to Justify, Analysts Say
Both Proton and Perodua have been indulged and overprotected by the government for years. Yet, they have developed quite differently in character, composition and conduct.
By Mack Chrysler • Aug. 31, 2010 -
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Smoke and Mirrors
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.Government's capacity to muck up our otherwise orderly world is beyond mind-boggling. Consider the State Children's Health Insurance Plan,...
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Let’s Outlaw Dishonest Internet Smear Campaigns
told the audience at the Automotive Customer Centricity Summit that I had vowed to stop making industry-related predictions. Then, about 30 minutes later, I broke that promise.
By Steve Finlay • June 21, 2010 -
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Falling Stars May Hinder Safety Ratings
“There’s a vehicle I know of that previously was a 5-star,” says a TRW executive familiar with the revised federal NCAP safety ratings. “Tested to the new NCAP, it’s barely a 3-star.”
By Tom Murphy • June 21, 2010 -
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Let’s Outlaw Dishonest Internet Smear Campaigns
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 told the audience at the Automotive Customer Centricity Summit that I had vowed to stop making industry-related predictions. Then, about 3...
By Steve Finlay 2 • June 19, 2010 -
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Detroit Three’s CAFE Investment to Outpace Asian Rivals
A Ward's analysis of U.S. Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency data shows Detroit auto makers will invest more in technology to meet the new rules than their Asian rivals. At the same time, government estimates show Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. will be asked to meet a weaker fuel economy bogey than Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
By James M. Amend • June 1, 2010 -
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NHTSA Chief Sees Safety as Moral Obligation
THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY Admin.'s new chief outlines an ambitious agenda at the SAE World Congress that likely will include new rules and higher expectations regarding how auto makers respond to alleged safety problems. While NHTSA has been highly critical of Toyota Motor Corp.'s response to complaints of sudden unintended acceleration in some of its vehicles, NHTSA Administrator David
By Drew Winter • May 1, 2010 -
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Cash for Clunkers Impact Underestimated, Researcher Says
The program may still have legs, evidenced by how quickly the government burned through the money allotted to the program.
By James M. Amend • March 9, 2010 -
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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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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
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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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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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
Sept. 1, 2009 -
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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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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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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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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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$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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