China's Auto Industry Meltdown: The Last Shall Be First?

Mike Smitka, economics / Washington and Lee First to exit, that is. The rush to enter China has led to a market with too many players with ...

World Cars, World Trade

GM is positioning Buick as a global brand drawing upon global product. As we've earlier blogged , this will work only if there is a conv...

The Tariff Advantage of Mexico

Adapted from a post by Griffin Cook on the Econ 244 blog, May 18, 2013 Audi's decision to place the plant that will build the new Q5 cro...

Honda as Japan's Exemplar

...Make where you sell, and that's not Japan... For a while the impact on the auto industry of 3/11 – the earthquake and tsunami – and ...

Why site assembly in Mexico?

...tariffs are 0% on vehicles shipped from Mexico... Honda is building a full-sized assembly plant (200K units per year) as is Mazda; Nissan...

Europe's Troubles: BMW postscript

...my quick analysis suggests no European OEM will weather the coming storm without taking on a fearful amount of water... According to an A...