Monthly Archives: April 2008
Ford Agrees To Preliminary Terms with Canada’s CAW Union
In an interesting development, considering the difficulty of negotations in late 2007 between the Detroit 3 and the UAW, plus the increasingly belligerent statements from the...
2008 Mercury Sable Premier AWD Review
Last week, Ford dropped off a 2008 Mercury Sable Premier AWD for me to evaluate. I had actually requested this car because so many people have told me over the past few years that...
Chrysler Figures Out How to Make Good Cars and Nissan Figures Out How to Make...
Significantly expanding the product sharing agreement announced a this past January for Nissan to produce a version of its Tiida (Versa) for Chrysler to sell in the South American...
Declining Broadcast TV Audiences Mean a Move to Alternative Advertising
Although network and cable television viewership steadily declines as more and more alternatives are pulling consumers' eyeballs from their TV sets and to things such as the...
The Odyssey of an Imp
By Roger Boylan04.11.2008One of the best small British cars of the ‘60s and ‘70s, a sparsely populated field to be sure, was the Hillman Imp, built by the Rootes Group (later...
Ford Pledges to Reduce CO2 Emissions By 30% Between Now and 2020
By Chris Haak04.10.2008Today, Ford Motor Company pledged that it will reduce CO2 (greenhouse gas) emissions by 30% between now and 2020. Shareholder environmental activists who...
The US is Suddenly a Low-Cost Manufacturing Country
By Chris Haak04.09.2008Thanks to two relatively recent developments – the falling value of the US dollar relative to other currencies and the significantly lower cost structure...
Ford-Commissioned Study Shows Quality on Par with Honda and Toyota
By Chris Haak04.08.2008According to a release from Ford, the first quarter 2008 U.S. Global Quality Research System (GQRS) study conducted on its behalf by RDA Group of Bloomfield...
Consumers Responding Well to Isuzu’s Going Out of Business Sale
It's extremely unlikely that Isuzu's management is reconsidering its decision to withdraw from the US market in early 2009, but a funny thing happened on the way to shutting down...
2008 Toyota Camry Hybrid Review
Ever since I spent a week in a 2008 Toyota Prius - and wasn't really impressed with much other than its fuel economy and the underlying technology - I had been looking forward to...
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