January Car Sales -- a Final Reckoning Begins in Earnest ?
Until the travel business picks up and businesses in general start replacing their vehicle fleets, Detroit will be outside looking in.
Until the travel business picks up and businesses in general start replacing their vehicle fleets, Detroit will be outside looking in.
Steve Parker | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
Monday brought three conference calls, each about an hour, with executives from each of the Detroit Three announcing, dissecting and, most of all, spi...
Steve Parker | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business
Happy New Year! We've had the pleasure of helping to create and now write and and moderate this automotive blog beginning in June, 2008, and so far i...
Steve Parker | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business
Congress took a perverse pleasure in giving Detroit's CEOs and the UAW president the third degree -- unnecessary theater while our country suffers this economic decline.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business
This post has the latest news on the billions in subsidies which off-shore transplant carmakers have received from state and local governments.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business
Late last night, Senate Republicans derailed a bill, passed the day before by the House, to loan $15 billion to the Detroit Three, with 10 Republicans joining 40 Democrats and two Independents in favor.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business
And now, it's on to the Senate! The House today passed, 237 to 170, HR 7321, the automotive loan bailout bill, and has sent it on to the Senate. H...
Steve Parker | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business
How anxious are the Detroit Three carmakers to make sales? My wife and I were at the Los Angeles Auto Show last night, "Black Friday," at the Los Ang...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
Detroit is a place where workers are unionized; Wall Street is not. And right-wing Republicans and conservative pundits have made it clear they want the union workers to suffer.
Steve Parker | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business
Obama has consistently shown his support for an American car-making industry, a modern and green industry able to build the kinds of cars and trucks people will want to buy.
Steve Parker | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business
They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...
Steve Parker | Posted 09.23.2008 | Business
It's the same story we've been hearing from car-makers, especially those in Detroit, for the past 30 years: "Just wait a little longer and we'll have those new cars and trucks you've been hoping for."
Steve Parker | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green
Sometimes, it's the incongruities, not the new models, which make the auto industry so interesting.
Steve Parker | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business