David Kiley

No Super Bowl. No Facebook. But General Motors' chief marketer is saying "Yes, mate" to a major sponsorship and marketing initiative with the world's best-known soccer team, Britain's Manchester United. The Detroit News first reported the deal.

The move to align Chevrolet with Manchester...

When Ford's chief marketing executive James Farley showed media the new Ford C-MAX last year, he said all the versions of the small crossover vehicle would be hybrid and plug-in electric, with no traditional internal-combustion engine model. The strategy was clear: Take on Prius.

Farley came to Ford in 2007...

What's not to like about a mad, sad, murderous clown?

The Michigan Opera Theatre is amidst its production of "Pagliacci" at the Detroit Opera House. Opening night was last weekend and there are three more performances May 18, 19 and 20.

The opera, by Ruggero Leoncavallo and written...

As editor of a leading auto research channel, and a HuffPost columnist, I do a lot of radio and TV interviews and travel frequently. In recent weeks, I have been asked a battery of questions about the U.S. auto industry and the City of Detroit.

I thought it...

Sixty-seven years ago today, the German army surrendered to the Allied Forces in a little schoolhouse in Rheims, France. The news that the war was over was broken by the Germans in a broadcast between surrender signings in France and Germany. The first American reporter to break the historic news...

A few days after Chrysler reported its best quarterly earnings since its 2009 bankruptcy, the automaker announced it would move around 70 employees to the historic Dime Building in downtown Detroit.

The Dime Building is one of Detroit's architectural treasures. When completed in 1912, the tower was named...

The light rail project that would run for three miles up and down Woodward Ave. is not dead yet. But I think it should be.

The private sector group backing the project has said that it not only has the money to build the line, but it is also

I am not the first writer or reviewer to call "The Pearl Fishers" Georges Bizet's "other opera," referring to his crowd-pleasing masterpiece, "Carmen." But it's hard not to.

Like Bizet's better-known "Carmen," "The Pearl Fishers" offers a big, powerful, lavish story and staging, with lots of crowd scenes, memorable melodies...

Congratulations Michigan. Seriously. Congrats all around for being the 31st state in the union to not require motorcyclists to wear a helmet.

Freedom reigns! We are taking our country back! Government just got a little smaller! Hooray! Get government out of our lives! Gov. Snyder rocks it!

My favorite response...

There is a reason why John Wayne and his career advisers thought the name "The Duke" was better than his given name -- Marion Morrison.

There is something in a name. This week, General Motors is showing off the 2014 Chevy Impala, a car that looks like the...

Gilbert and Sullivan operas don't seem to be performed with great regularity these days. But the Michigan Opera Theatre Children's Chorus (MOTCC) on March 24 brought "H.M.S. Pinafore" to life for a local audience, most of whom probably had never seen Gilbert and Sullivan.

It was my first exposure to...

It's hard to knock Chrysler's ongoing effort to boost the image of Detroit, and to link its own resurgence with the struggling comeback of the city. But I'm going to.

As anyone who watches "Mad Men," or has worked in advertising, can attest, everybody thinks they're an expert in advertising....

Having failed at its organizing efforts with Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz in the U.S., the United Auto Workers has turned its sites to Volkswagen's growing manufacturing facility in Tennessee for new members.

It will be a tough slog for the union. The outcome will be perhaps the biggest single...

Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn could be Ford's chairman and CEO today if Bill Ford had agreed to give up his chairman's title in 2006. Former Chrysler CEOs Bob Nardelli and Tom Lasorda tried to form a major alliance with Ford that would have eliminated thousands of jobs in southeast Michigan...

In an era when executive pay is under heavy scrutiny, and the 99 percent are pitted against the 1 percent, Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally is in the spotlight for receiving $58.4 million in company stock as part of a 2009 long-term incentive pay package, the automaker...

There's an ongoing squabble between Chrysler and the apparel and gifts firm Pure Detroit over trademark issues -- and what is actually meant by the word "Detroit" -- that seriously misses the point of what both companies are trying to do. It's time for a mediator to step...

As Michiganders get bombarded with political ads and stump speeches in advance of next week's Republican primary, GOP hopeful Mitt Romney has begun re-emphasizing his dislike of the United Auto Workers, and defending his opposition of the auto industry bailout by criticizing the White House for "giving the companies to...

Whitney Houston's mother brought her daughter home to the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark on February 18 to be memorialized by her friends and family; remembered for when her voice reached the heavens like no other, and when it broke down, ravaged by drugs, hard living and bad choices.

Former Massachusetts Governor and GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney is spending more than $1 million dollars in ads in the two weeks before the Michigan Republican primary, possibly outspending rival candidate Rick Santorum roughly 2.5 to 1 if the trend continues.

Romney, a Michigan native who breezed...

When I saw Chrysler's Super Bowl ad at halftime on Feb. 5, I emailed the executive who conceived it, Chrysler marketing chief Olivier Francois, and told him I didn't like it so much.

It was my first viewing of the ad, and thus my initial reaction from the gut. I...