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China Should Skip Internal Combustion Altogether
If you're a car industry fanatic like many of us are, you may recall that in the early days of the U.S. auto industry, there were far more than only three companies (or a few more...
Volkswagen Plans Ten New Plants By 2018
Volkswagen plans to be the world's largest automaker - a title that has been surprisingly in flux for the past several years, after three quarters of a century of GM occupying...
Intellectual-Property Theft Will Impact China’s Auto Industry Development
It's well-known that China has some serious issues with protecting intellectual property. From cars that are knockoffs of the name brand models (the Brilliance H530 is so...
Spyker Sues GM for Saab Bankruptcy
Put this one in the "no good deed goes unpunished" file. Today, Spyker (the former owner of Saab, before Saab went belly-up last year) announced that it is suing GM for $3...
Chinese Knock Off the Ford F-150
By Chris Haak These may be some of my favorite kinds of stories to write about. My very limited understanding of Chinese culture , gained from talking to a few Chinese friends,...
Japanese Auto Manufacturers Demand Weaker Yen
By Chris Haak The Japanese Automobile Manufacturer's Association (JAMA) and the Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers’ Unions (CJAWU) released a joint statement yesterday...
Ford Expects to Increase Sales By 50 Percent By 2015
By Chris Haak Yesterday in New York, Ford Motor Company executives told reporters and investors that the company expected to increase its global sales by 50 percent by 2015 to...
Beijing’s New Traffic Curbs Will Harm Vehicle Sales
By Chris Haak In China today, Beijing's municipal government imposed some dramatic new rules that will curtail the number of new cars that can be registered in the city starting...
China’s 2010 Auto Sales Could Top 18 Million
By Chris Haak Fresh from snatching the title of the "world's largest new-vehicle market" from the US last year, China's new-vehicle sales could top 18 million vehicles by the end...
BYD E6 Electric Crossover Expected to Sell for $40k in US
By Chris Haak Chinese automaker BYD, fresh off announcing acquisition of a North American headquarters in Los Angeles, plans to sell its E6 electric vehicle in the US for about...
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