Ford’s (F) sales may have passed GM’s in the US in February, but GM is still well ahead of its rivals in China. GM sold 174,306 cars on the mainland last month between its own vehicles…
GM had to recall 1.3 million cars this week, which took away much of its current marketing advantage over Toyota. The perennial No.1 domestic car company could claim that its Japanese rival had lost…
Many experts expected that February would be a bloodbath for Toyota (TM) due to its recalls of 8.5 million cars worldwide and a large amount of negative publicity about potential cover-ups of safety data.…
Car recalls have become an epidemic with the sickest patient being Toyota (TM), which has recalled 8.5 million cars this year. GM, one of the car companies with a chance to benefit from the woes…
The United States may be Toyota’s largest market, but the largest car market in the world is China. After a grilling by Congress and meeting with the Transportation Secretary and employees meant to save as…
Toyota’s (TM) sales in the US market are supposed to fall and some of its large rivals like Ford (F) and Honda (HMC) are supposed to benefit from customers who will no longer consider buying vehicles…
Hummer is dead now, the victim of years of making large trucks which got ten miles per gallon and a failed sale of the firm by GM to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines in China.…
Hyundai has recalled 47,000 of its Sonata sedans to fix door lock problems. It does so in an environment in which American consumers are becoming more and more suspicious of the auto industry. Hyundai was…
Consumer Reports released its study of the best vehicles sold in the US. Honda (HMC) finished in first place, Subaru in second, and Toyota (TM) in third. The firm said that it suspended ratings on…
The press has pointed out that Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, does not spend a lot of his time out of the office shaking hands and kissing babies the way that his US counterparts do.…
Toyota (TM) should never have had a chance to be the No.1 car company in the world. It began as one of the small corporations built during the industrialization of post-WWII Japan. It eventually became…
“Toyota Lied” is a good headline and catchy enough to get a reader to look further into a story. In this case catchy is not where it ends. According to The Wall Street Journal,…
By Douglas A. McIntyre Yet another damaging revelation has undercut Toyota’s (TM) reputation for disclosing safety issues and the fixing potentially dangerous problems with its cars. The latest twist has a new angle: Toyota…
Whatever happened to the $1 a year men? When the federal government gave Chrysler $1.5 billion to stay in operation, CEO Lee Iacocca worked for $1 until the taxpayers were received their money back.…
Akio Toyoda, the head of Toyota (TM), will go to Washington to testify before the House Oversight Committee. He did not want to visit Congress, but he ended up with little choice. The committee’s chairman…