The Supplier Auto Parts Fixing Scandal is Just Getting Started

Auto parts price-fixing probe rattles industry Star-Telegram, May 16 By Eric Tucker, Associated Press WASHINGTON — An investigation into pr...

Summers and Marchionne on 2009 Auto Bailout: No Alternative

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2014/05/summers-marchionne-2009-auto-bailout Discussion by some of the players in the G...

Transparency, and Some Retail Auto Industry History

Ruggles “Transparency” is one of the new buzz words in the retail auto industry these days. Dealers are urged to be transparent with their...

ZENRIN Datacom integrates mobile navigation app with QNX CAR Platform

Don't know if you've noticed, but a variety of navigation software vendors have been integrating their solutions with the QNX CAR Pl...

The Auto Industry: Journals from Detroit

My students have now a cumulative 150+ blog posts on the auto industry, plus 13 separate journals from our visits to firms and other events ...

Using a smaller BOM to make less boom

Don't know about you, but where I live, the price of gas has rocketed through the troposphere and is fast approaching the upper stratosp...

Technological Surprises: PACE and PNGV at 20

I've test driven a number of cars the past week, and what I've seen is a cautionary tale on mapping technological trajectories. Two ...

Detroit Student Trip, Detroit Bankruptcy

I'm now back from a week on the road with students that provided an intense exposure to the auto industry and to the greater Detroit are...

Tom Hudson on "One Price."

Tom Hudson on One Price . The lede: No Haggle? No Problem. Or Not. The tag: The magazine’s legal wiz believes that dealers who advertise n...

Wanted - a small car for city driving in Malaysia

Wanted a small, affordable second car for city driving in Malaysia. The maximum budget is RM 40K (approx £7298). If I had that budget here i...

Subaru Forester & XV - for those who love the rural life

Have you watched the recent Subaru ads? They show their two vehicles  from their all-wheel drive range, the  Subaru Forester & XV in ac...

Infotainment gets an upgrade

So, a few weeks ago, we invited a group of Canadian journalists to come visit the QNX garage and get a hands-on intro to our latest concept ...

A Perspective on Ford and the Automotive Business

Here is a student's perspective on a day spent with Bill Cosgrove, a retired Ford executive with experience at the senior level in Ford ...