When a company with the engineering reputation of Mercedes-Benz embarks on a totally new engine program, everyone takes notice.First, the Germans stunned the business when it was learned the new engine program, a modular range consisting of a...
Missed opportunity" is a term auto supplier executives don't like to hear, at least in reference to their own companies.In the face of narrow profit margins and deep price cuts, when a potentially lucrative corporate marriage presents itself, no...
TOKYO - This year's Tokyo auto show proves to be a strange contradiction.At one end are the Japanese domestic automakers, all showing advanced technology geared toward realizing more ecologically friendly production cars. Foreign automakers...
TOKYO - The Japanese government's push for more environmentally friendly cars hasn't been lost on Japan's No. 2 automaker, which is hoping to charge past the competiton with the first production version lithium-ion powered electric vehicle (EV)...
Quick-as-a-wink light-truck product cycles are hardly a Big Three custom.But given the sizzle in the North American full-size truck market, a decade between generations in this segment has come to look like an eternity.A decade is how long it has...