6 February 2012, 8:38 pm
Moments after the energetic Madonna entertained fans during the halftime show at Sunday's Super Bowl, millions of television viewers got an emotional jolt back into reality.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 7:56 pm
Former U.S. President George W. Bush told car dealers gathered at a convention in Las Vegas he “didn’t want to gamble” with a depression in defending the loans he gave to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 5:52 pm
Amid the close-up shots of factory workers and Midwest families, were there political undertones in Chrysler's Super Bowl ad featuring iconic actor Clint Eastwood?... Read More »
1 February 2012, 5:34 am
When the likes of Jaguar, Porsche, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen, Renault and Chrysler introduce a new model series, it is equally or more reliable than the model it replaces. Right? Wrong! New information has been released this week which indicates all of the above companies have replac... Read More »
25 January 2012, 11:23 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 »
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, 6:06 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, 9:04 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 »
9 January 2012, 1:22 am
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 »