by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 2, 2010
Ford Motor Co. is fully competitive with its domestic rivals, and indeed with the rest of the auto industry, the automaker’s CEO Alan Mulally, tells TheDetroitBureau.com, despite its hefty debt load and its inability to win all the concessions it has sought from its...
by Ken Zino | Apr 2, 2010
For every $500 that Toyota offers in incentives, other automakers have to counter with incentives ranging from $420 to more than $3,000 to generate the same consideration levels among new car shoppers, according to a report from CNW Research. The data are for...
by Ken Zino | Apr 1, 2010
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A. today reported March sales results of 187,000 units, an increase of 35% compared to the same period last year, on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis. On a raw volume basis, unadjusted for 26 selling days in March 2010, compared to 25...
by Joseph Szczesny | Apr 1, 2010
Daimler AG has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice to close investigations of the company’s repeated violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA – activities that involved the repeated...
by Ken Zino | Apr 1, 2010
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today jointly established new federal rules that set the first-ever national greenhouse gas emissions standards, and will increase the fuel economy of all new passenger cars...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 1, 2010
Aiming to build on its current momentum, Kia rolled out a quartet of new products at the New York International Auto Show – and promised more will soon follow, including the brand’s first hybrid-electric vehicle. The most significant of the new offerings on display at...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 1, 2010
For a brand that was long a symbol of the most basic, cheap-and-cheerful products, Hyundai is doing a surprisingly effective job of redefining the luxury car market – a process it hopes to take a giant step further with the upcoming launch of the 2011 Hyundai Equus...
by Ken Zino | Apr 1, 2010
Dealers for General Motors delivered 189,000 vehicles during March of 2010, up 21% from March of 2009. Total combined sales for GM’s Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac brands in the U.S. were 185,406, up 34% from February. Combined Total and Retail sales for...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 1, 2010
Those hip-hop Kia hamsters are coming back, TheDetroitBureau.com has learned, and should be strutting their stuff, so to speak, in a new ad campaign for the Korean maker’s edgy Soul crossover sometime this spring. The original ad campaign, which helped launch the 2010...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Apr 1, 2010
It came close to being a clean sweep for Volkswagen and its subsidiaries, the German maker capturing three of the four trophies handed out in the annual World Car of the Year awards – the VW Polo taking the namesake Car of the Year honors. The World Car of the Year...
by Ken Zino | Apr 1, 2010
Nissan has released the first image of the next generation Quest minivan and is attempting to change the image, not for the first time, of a vehicle in a class that exists because of utility. The Quest in one of its previous versions attempted to use radical styling...
