by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 15, 2013
Despite record sales this year, Hyundai expects its market share to shrink in the U.S. because of a continuing – and growing — shortage of vehicle resulting from a lack of production capacity. “We see more demand for our products than we do production,” Hyundai...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 12, 2013
By most accounts, China is expected to become the world’s largest market for luxury cars before the end of the decade. But BMW is apparently in a rush there and expects the booming Asian nation to overtake the U.S. as its lead market by the end of 2013. Locked in a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 12, 2013
After years of going it alone and developing the impressive technology that’s been deployed on Mercedes-Benz E and S Class vehicles, Daimler AG is reaching out to a German software supplier to develop driver assistance software. Elektrobit (EB), which is...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 12, 2013
To many of those in the Motor City, even a century after it was founded, the nation’s second’s largest automaker is still known as “Ford’s,” a reference to the family that founded it and to the men who have run it. Indeed, Ford Motor Co. still has a family member at...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 12, 2013
Europe’s car market has been akin to a black hole for the past for the past six years, leaving manufacturers desperate to find a way out of the morass. Ford Motor Co. has been one of the hardest-hit, last year running $1.7 billion into the red on the Continent....
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 11, 2013
General Motors has promised at least eight of its U.S. vehicles will get 40 miles per gallon or better by 2017, while also pledging to reduce the CO2 emissions of its fleet 15% by 2015. The mileage target, listed in GM’s latest sustainability report, would double the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 11, 2013
So you dodged the speed traps and cut an hour off your drive from New York to Boston, but you’re still going to pay for that lead foot. The faster you go the worse your fuel economy, studies have routinely demonstrated, but just how much may come as a surprise. A new...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 11, 2013
Struggling to cope with worsening smog problems even as the roadways in places like Shanghai and Beijing become choked with traffic, Chinese regulators plan to enact new restrictions limiting the number of vehicles that can be sold in a many key cities around the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jul 11, 2013
Another experienced executive has elected to quit a senior post with General Motors’ vital overseas operations in a sensitive and fast growing emerging market where GM has been pressing to gain market share. Martin Apfel, president of GM South East Asia...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 10, 2013
Ford Motor Co. becomes the latest automaker to slash pricing to try to boost sales of its slow-selling battery-car, the 2014 Focus Electric. Sales of both battery-electric vehicles, or BEVs, and plug-in hybrids have generally lagged proponents’ expectations prompting...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 10, 2013
Even as demand for its little Leaf battery-electric vehicle begins to gain momentum, Nissan has temporarily pulled the plug on plans to bring the Infiniti LE to market, though sources tell TheDetroitBureau.com that the luxury electric vehicle is still very much part...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 10, 2013
With new products like the GT Speed convertible, its fastest ragtop ever, Bentley recorded a big surge in demand for the first half of 2013, the maker reports. Worldwide sales rose 9%, to 4,279, over the same period a year ago, according to the British luxury brand....
