by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 23, 2010
What’s happened to the econobox? U.S. motorists on the budget traditionally had two options: get something used or plunk your limited cash down for a stripped-down form of basic transportation. But suddenly, the classic, cheap-and-cheerful economy car doesn’t quite...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 23, 2010
Dutch-based Spyker Cars has completed its once seemingly improbably bid to purchase the long-troubled Swedish automaker Saab Cars. The deal, tenatively approved last month, saves Saab from the automotive rubbish heap. Its long-time parent, General Motors, decided to...
by Ken Zino | Feb 23, 2010
Politicians Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and sub-committee chairman on Oversight Investigation, Bart Stupak, kicked off a hearing in Washington late this morning with three specific charges against Toyota and the National...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 23, 2010
There’s plenty of action all around Vancouver, as the Winter Olympics enter their final days, but the real face-off won’t be between the U.S. and Russian hockey teams, but between U.S. lawmakers and officials from Toyota gathered today and tomorrow on Capitol Hill....
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 22, 2010
General Motors has named Stephen J. Girsky its new Vice Chairman of Corporate Strategy and Business Development, a move that coincides with yet another round of changes in the automaker’s corporate suite — and it is triggering debate – once again –...
by Ken Zino | Feb 22, 2010
Ford’s next-generation of small, multi-activity vehicles, C-Max and Grand C-Max, will appear in their final production versions at the Geneva Motors Show. Teasers versions of the vans appeared at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September. (Click here.) Ford is...
by Ken Zino | Feb 22, 2010
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) filed a document with the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) at the close of business today, informing the TSE that Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) has received a grand jury subpoena from a United States District Court to produce...
by Mike Davis | Feb 22, 2010
Even as a grizzled veteran of the car safety wars that began with the publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe At Any Speed in the mid-1960s, I find it hard to fathom how Toyota has fallen into the mess it finds itself in. Toyota has benefited from a carefully nurtured...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 22, 2010
If the name, Kia, calls to mind cheap and cheerful subcompacts, you might think again after checking out these renderings of the new midsize sedan the Korean carmaker plans to unveil at the upcoming New York Auto Show. Kia has been making a move up-market, it recent...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 22, 2010
General Motors will set up a new distribution unit, Cadillac Europe, in a bid to re-establish its top-line luxury brand in the competitive Continental market. While details of the new network aren’t being released yet, Cadillac plans a big push at the upcoming Geneva...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 19, 2010
Though he initially took on CEO duties without pay, General Motors boss Ed Whitacre, Jr. won’t be going hungry. Even if his tastes run toward prime Kobe beef, rather than Texas longhorn, Whitacre should be able to come up with the cash considering he’ll now be...
