While many automotive suppliers are crying the blues and cutting back production and head counts, at least one relative newcomer to the North American market has yet to see any softening in demand. On the contrary, Omron Automotive Electronics Inc...
Editor Drew Winter argues on p.7 that Bob Lutz, tapped as General Motors Corp.'s product development chief, hasn't been as successful as most folks think in developing memorable, successful cars and trucks. Here, Editor-at-Large Dave Smith takes a...
The Chrysler Group is throwing out design cues the cab-forward look of its large cars and doing the once unthinkable affixing the Jeep brand on all-wheel-drive (AWD) vehicles. Some future Jeeps could be developed with less offroad-oriented AWD...
Expect the U.S. Senate to reverse anti-regulatory momentum generated by House passage early in August of a Bush administration energy bill that rejects imposing tougher federal automobile fuel-economy standards despite growing populist support for...
Cast iron once was the most fundamental building block of the automotive industry. It was a major reason why automotive entrepreneurs gravitated to Detroit at the turn of the 20th century. Before it was a production center for engine blocks and...