27 January 2012, 8:08 am
The language was dry, but the tale that the economist Gary Banks told at a Canberra gathering of businesspeople one night in November had all the scary elements of a bedtime story, of a land once great whose citizens squandered their good fortune through a trick of their own imagination.... Read More »
26 January 2012, 1:43 am
The Big Three were so driven by short-term profits that they forgot – or ignored – basic accounting practices that could have helped guard against production decisions with long-term damage, according to an award-winning study by Michigan State University and Maastricht University in the Netherl... Read More »
25 January 2012, 11:33 am
Also in this episode: Bugatti brightens up a Veyron, the Saab museum is saved and a video pays homage to the beauty of racing.... Read More »
13 January 2012, 9:58 am
"Today the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields."... Read More »
12 January 2012, 4:40 pm
Reducing automobile emissions is a major goal of environmentalists, and we are living at the leading edge of what looks like a significant shift away from gas-guzzling vehicles of the past toward cars that run cleaner and run farther on less fuel.... Read More »
10 January 2012, 6:17 pm
It's only three years since the car industry was last rescued. Meantime, other parts of manufacturing have got on with the job of lifting productivity. Read more on the blog...... Read More »
9 January 2012, 9:34 am
On Jan. 5, 1914, Henry Ford, the head of the Ford Motor Co., stunned the business world by announcing that, henceforth, Ford employees would not only share in the car company’s profits, they also would be paid the unheard of sum of $5 a day. That doubled their previous wage.... Read More »
8 January 2012, 12:54 pm
ONE of Ford's most senior global executives has admitted the company's manufacturing base in Australia is not guaranteed beyond the lifespan of the current Falcon and Territory.... Read More »
8 January 2012, 6:49 am
Australian manufacturing base not guaranteed beyond lifespan of Falcon, Territory.... Read More »
5 January 2012, 8:07 am
A GOVERNMENT minister has been dispatched to Detroit in a desperate attempt to rescue the Australian car industry.... Read More »
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