by Marty Bernstein | Mar 25, 2011
A Safe Driving Adult PSA Worth Watching Mercedes-Benz this week announced a teen age driving school, Toyota has had one for several years, BMW offers a teen driving school in South Carolina, Bridgestone has a special program too, but what about those beyond learner...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 25, 2011
A key part of Honda’s product development program could be out of action indefinitely in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devasted Northeast Japan earlier this month. With Japanese automakers still struggling to assess the damage done by the natural...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 25, 2011
Saab’s CEO Jan-Aake Jonsson will step down, in May, leaving the Swedish maker to find a new chief executive amidst its efforts to turn its fortunes around. Victor Muller, the Dutch entrepreneur who led the takeover of Saab from former owner General Motors Corp., will...
by Bryan Laviolette | Mar 25, 2011
Analyst statements that auto production could drop by as much as 30% as part shortages become a huge problem shows that automakers may need to rethink their strategy in choosing suppliers. IHS Automotive said Thursday that the crisis surrounding the mega earthquake...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 24, 2011
Scott Burgess, the often-outspoken auto writer who quit after his critical review of the Chrysler 200 was censored by the Detroit News, has returned to the paper following its decision to apologize to readers and the reporter. A former correspondent for the U.S....
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 24, 2011
The United Auto Workers Union is close to picking the automaker that will serve as the target of what it vows will become the largest consumer boycott in the history of the global economy — all part of its effort to organize workers at non-union plants in the...
by Jim McCraw | Mar 24, 2011
The 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine has been a staple of automotive propulsion around the world for decades — in places like Asia and Europe and Australia and Africa, anyway, but not so much here in the States. Americans have tended to shy away from little 122...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 24, 2011
Still struggling to get its Japanese plants up-and-running, Toyota has now delayed the planned April launch of its all-new Prius V. The maker has also warned workers it may soon be forced to temporarily idle some of its North American assembly lines. The hybrid...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 24, 2011
The next generation Saab 9-3 will introduce the Swedish maker’s first hybrid drivetrain, senior company officials confirmed during a conversation with TheDetroitBureau.com, a system that will provide an electric alternative to the current, mechanically-driven Saab...
by Bryan Laviolette | Mar 24, 2011
Mercedes-Benz USA has named one of its veteran retail strategists to take over the troubled Smart brand. Tracey Matura, currently general manager of retail strategic development, was named to take over the brand a month after M-B announced it was canceling the Penske...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 23, 2011
During the winter-that-never-ends it doesn’t take much to lure a sun-deprived Detroiter to Florida – especially if someone is waiting there with the keys to a new Maserati GranTurismo Convertible. Few brands have so much drawing power – or deliver such visual stopping...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 23, 2011
United Auto Workers President Bob King ripped into the pay package for Ford Motor Co. chief executive officer Alan Mulally, calling it “morally reprehensible.” Speaking with reporters following the union’s bargaining convention, King also said he believed Mulally’s...
