Volkswagen
Review: 2012 Volkswagen Passat SEL 2.5
As an automaker, how do you take a good - but slow selling - car and improve its sales by two or threefold? Volkswagen faced this very question during the development of the...
Review: 2011 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen TDI
I just finished reviewing a large, seven-passenger Chrysler Town & Country minivan, and now find myself moving onto my next task. In the Town & Country review, I laid...
GM Could Regain “World’s Largest Automaker” Title in 2011
By Chris Haak It's not easy being number one. And, if you listened to GM executives after their company lost the global sales crown in 2008, being the biggest doesn't matter,...
Good News and Bad News for Speed Lovers
By Chris Haak According to a report over at The Detroit Bureau, Texas lawmakers are considering raising that state's maximum speed limit to 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) on the...
Not All New Cars are Better Than Their Old Models
By Chris Haak A typical pattern in the life cycle of products in a competitive market is that a new product will be introduced, and it will be incrementally better than the one...
NAIAS Preview: 2012 Volkswagen Passat
By Chris Haak Talk about anti-climactic news. The night before the NAIAS in Detroit, Volkswagen revealed its long-awaited New Midsize Sedan (NMS), and surprise - the car is to...
German Automakers Driving a US Diesel Boom
By Chris Haak US consumers tired of the complexity and poor acceleration performance of hybrids (not to mention an unnatural driving feel) have been flocking to diesels in the US...
VW Considers a Full-Size SUV for Fat, Dumb Americans
By Chris Haak Of course, the headline is written tongue-in-cheek. I'm a proud American and think we live in the greatest country in the history of the world, and I'm thankful...
Platform Sharing Set to Increase Dramatically
By Chris Haak Automotive News reported this week on an analysis prepared by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers that projects huge global production volumes for shared...