U.S. Car Makers Stand to Gain From Bush Plans – WSJ.com: “Though many factors have contributed to the industry’s woes, soaring health-care costs are a big part of the problem. The Detroit giants are paying the price for years of…
Mulally Pans `Paranoid’ Ford, Pushes Toyota-Style Production I criticized Alan Mulally earlier, via my criticism of Boeing. To be clear: I respect Mulally. I am really rooting for Alan Mulally. Mulally is such an outspoken promoter of the Toyota Production…
I can’t get the videos to play on my PC. CNBC did interviews today with the Big 3 big wigs, a big mullet, and a Toyota leader. I heard the Mulally interview on XM Radio, but didn’t hear the others.…
WSJ: At GM, Curbing Inventories Calls For Juggling Act From the article: At the end of December, GM had more than one million vehicles in stock in the U.S. That’s equivalent to about 41,000 vehicles for every point of its…
Here’s what jumped out at me from Friday’s WSJ articles on Alan Mulally: his “war room” and his “first impressions.” (both articles require paid WSJ subscriptions, I believe). The free version of the war room article is here. In the…
Not breaking news, but more article about Toyota’s expected leap to #1 in global auto sales in 2007. The NY Times and the International Herald Tribune both chimed in. All quotes below are from the IHT article. Toyota Motor said…
As Auto Prosperity Shifts South, Two Towns Offer a Study in Contrasts – New York Times Here’s a free Detroit News version of the article. My hometown, Livonia, Michigan is hurting with the prolonged slump in the auto industry. I…
Via Google News Archive Auto incentives… bribing people to buy the car they didn’t exactly want, but you built anyway. “As part of General Motors’ new brand strategy, the company will avoid rebates and other one-time discounts…” The punchline —…
GM raises price of some ’07s | Chicago Tribune: The other day, I complained about how GM was “forced” to raise prices due to materials cost increases and how wrong that concept is. Yesterday’s Chicago Tribune explained it better: “‘GM…
Materials costs force GM to raise prices Yet another example of a non-lean mindset company thinking they are entitled to price increases because costs went up. General Motors Corp. has raised prices an average of 0.5 percent on about one-third…
USATODAY.com – GM lengthens warranties to five years or 100,000 miles For all of their whining about how the biased media unfairly portrays GM’s quality, they are finally putting their warranty money where their mouth is. They claim quality has…
Camaro Homecoming – 08/11/06 – The Detroit News Online Yahoo News Photo So GM and Rick Wagoner aren’t “braindead” after all, as we might have suspected after his 60 Minutes appearance. GM is going to build the new Camaro after…
