Nothing semi about this HEMI

I rarely speak about any car in particular — I'm more interested in trends than trim levels — but allow me to make an exception. Because...

Mitsubishi Motors: Going, going ... gone?

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) is trumpeting record profits. I'm not convinced things are so rosy: they've also just restructur...

“Buy a Car, Get a Check” and the recent NADA White Paper on Incentives

ruggles: the following is a collection of notes and has not a published column. NADA recently published a long awaited white paper on incent...

The Bad Old Days: Chrysler Mack Stamping

I often wonder how many people read this blog. I was thus heartened by a substantive comment on my previous post on Mack Stamping in the Ci...

Taxpayers Will Lose Money on GM Investment

... calculate what it would have cost to NOT rescue the auto industry... Below are comments on the following article. GM Share Price Needs t...

Mack Stamping, or a Tale of Detroit's Decline

...[Mack] was a six-story structure [from] 1916... Detroit is in bankruptcy for three reasons. One is that a city is a fixed cost enterprise...

What Does Mullaly Do?

Guest Blogger Blake Grady, edited from April 30, 2013 post on the Econ 244 site For those of us who do not have much of a business or even e...

Detroit's Biggest Mistakes

Detroit’s Worst Mistake Ever Nov. 7, 2012 by Drew Winter in Ward's Automotive Final Inspection Detroit auto makers wasted at least $50...

Understanding the Mortgage Crisis

By David Ruggles Preface : The following is the culmination of over 4 years of research. At one time I thought the mortgage crisis was due t...

Auto Bailout Redux: Warren Buffett

...it was Bush who bailed out GM -- Obama forced it into bankruptcy... Steve Rattner's blog points out a February 27th CNBS interview w...

Bad News for Toyota? – the Detroit 3 are Back

...the Detroit 3 are returning to the midsized-car segment... I'm tossing out back issues of Automotive News to try to fit into a corne...

Auto Bailout Redux and Mitt Romney

See the post on my parallel blog, US and Economics on Mitt Romney's puzzling statements on the government-led bankruptcy of GM and Chry...

The Politics of the GM-Chrysler Bankruptcies

By David Ruggles During the recent Republican debate held in Mitt Romney’s home state of Michigan, the presidential hopeful was asked about ...