The pain now appears over for Volvo cars. Volvo turned the corner in Canada and around the world in 2015. In Canada, after seeing sales plunge from 2012 to 2013 to 2014, Canadian Volvo sales jumped 7.2 per cent (to 4,788) in 2015. Globally, Volvo sold 503,127 units in 2015 — the first time Volvo …
Detroit’s automakers: re-born and reinvented
It is fashionable and easy to bash Detroit’s car companies, lazily painting them with the broad brush of incompetence and insularity, then concluding that Ford Motor, General Motors and the former Chrysler Group — now part of the world’s 4th-largest automaker, FCA — are pitiable industrial relics, soon to be overwhelmed by the great geniuses …
The Autonomous Vehicle Future: Driver as Programmer
The automotive world is racing ahead with autonomous and self-driving vehicles, arguing that when computer brains take the wheel away from humans, commuters will love the convenience and everyone will be safer. The Nissan-Renault Alliance is only the latest in a raft of car companies all staking claim to leadership here. Nissan-Renault says it will …
Ford as Inventor and Innovator? Look at a Ford Showroom and Then Consider the Stock
“What’s wrong with Ford is that investors and the broad marketplace think it is a tired old company from a dying town, Detroit. The facts suggest otherwise…” Pause for a moment and consider Ford Motor Co., a 112-year-old car company that emerged from the recession with a focused business plan and a clear vision of …
January 15, 2016 | Commentary, First on the Grid 1 Comments (0) |
VW is making diesel-gate worse, not better
What a shock it must have been this week when U.S. government officials delivered a massive smack-down to VW executives who clearly fail to fathom the depth and breadth of their diesel-gate dilemma. Make no mistake, VW’s problems are not going away quickly or inexpensively, and the company’s leaders are making things worse. Their arrogance, …
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