One of the nicest guys in the business, Ford Motor Co.'s vice president of research, William F. Powers, has retired from the company. Taking his place? Gerhard Schmidt, curiously jettisoning a decade in the world's greatest job: director of...
For an editor who spends her days pouring over sobering stories about business strategies of global automakers in foreign countries, being a member of this year's Best Engines voting bunch was pure pleasure. Twice so, since I spend my time...
CHELSEA, MI If DaimlerChrysler AG can just hurry up and get this new Jeep compact sport/utility vehicle (SUV), the 2002 Liberty, to market, it'll go a long way toward balming the cross-continental squabbling. It's usually easier to bury the...
If you believe the media, it's crisis time at Chrysler (DaimlerChrysler Corp.) again. There are some people in the industry that claim that this is a natural event, like the coming of the locust, and it happens about every 10 years. Well, I don't...
Okay, I'll admit it: I have mixed feelings about The List. On one hand, I'm proud to have lobbied for Toyota's parallel hybrid Prius. Technical innovation gets rewarded in this game, and we're acknowledging one powertrain advance toward the future...
OK. Enough of all these voting fraud theories. I spent most of November and the beginning of December reading and listening to arguments that either the Republicans or the Democrats were trying to steal the election in Florida. Well, the ballot...
The Bible says you reap what you sow and because of that, the domestic auto-makers had better start looking for some divine intervention, because years of concentrating on nothing but trucks and SUVs now has the domestics sucking wind on several...
The U.S. market's infatuation with V-8 engines has been hard to stomach for a guy who vows to never own one. I'd like to say I'll never own a sport/utility vehicle, either, but at some point there might be nothing else in the showroom. To the rest...