by Mike Davis | Mar 28, 2016
The fairly new head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Dr. Mark Rosekind, a veteran of the highly regarded National Transportation Safety Board, announced that NHTSA will seek 100% completion of safety recalls in the U.S. This comes in the wake of...
by Mike Davis | Sep 11, 2014
It’s difficult to keep up with the headlines. If my count is right, we’ve already hear from Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Nissan, all revealing plans to introduce autonomous vehicles in the coming years. And that doesn’t even include Google, the high-tech firm...
by Mike Davis | Jun 19, 2014
In the nearly 70 years that I have covered the auto industry, I don’t recall a major story that has been so poorly reported as the controversy about GM’s ignition switches. I attribute this to my belief that, unfortunately, relatively few journalists and editors – not...
by Mike Davis | Apr 15, 2014
A full 50 years ago this week, a new car burst onto the scene that revolutionized the automotive business. But the original 1964-1/2 Mustang was almost an after-thought, a design that was rushed to market when then-Ford President Lee Iacocca pulled the plug on a far...
by Mike Davis | Dec 9, 2013
Automakers are always looking for maximum splash with the launch of a new vehicle, but Ford pulled out all stops during the 6-city debut of the new 2015 Mustang last week. But perhaps the most significant bit of news was buried in the press package for the 50th...
by Mike Davis | Jul 23, 2013
A German manufacturer best known for its heavy duty truck engine components could re-write the rules when it comes to passenger car powertrains. The company is the Mahle Group, and it’s presently showing off a “demonstration vehicle” with an experimental ...
by Mike Davis | Jan 18, 2013
TheDetroitBureau.com’s resident historian, Mike Davis was yet to get his license when the first Corvette rolled into GM’s private auto show, known as Motorama, 60 years ago. But he’s been watching and reporting on every ‘Vette since then. Davis recently released a...
by Mike Davis | Jul 17, 2012
Okay, we’re about half way between the Chevrolet Corvette’s 59th birthday, June 30, and the Woodward Dream Cruise, August 18—at which there likely will be more Corvettes parading than any other model. For one thing, America’s only mass-production sports car has never...
by Mike Davis | Mar 13, 2012
Ripley V. Winkel, the third generation Chevrolet dealer in Shaughnessy, NY, up the Hudson from Manhattan, decided to take his demonstrator, a 1992 Chevrolet K1500 4×4 up into the Catskills for a little R & R from the pressures of business and family. Even in...
by Mike Davis | Jan 3, 2012
Here we go again. Years ago, I wrote a column for Publisher Paul (at one of his previous enterprises), concerning the gems to be found in the world’s least read book of useful information: a new car or truck Owner Manual. This time my particular candidate is the...
by Mike Davis | Dec 30, 2011
Eagle-eyed–and certified car-nutty—auto enthusiasts have been mystified the last couple of days by an obvious anachronism in the funeral procession of Dear Leader Kim-Jong-il: a real, if elderly, Detroit Lincoln stretch limousine leading the parade, coffin on...
by Mike Davis | Dec 12, 2011
You can barely read the auto section of your local newspaper, never mind the enthusiast magazines, without getting immersed in the new world of “electrification.” That is, of course, a fancy term for what most folks would call battery power. And regular readers of...
