At the depth of the recession when there was a falling market for new cars, strikes were almost welcome in the US and EU. Most car companies had so much inventory that…
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made a number of important observations during his testimony before the Congressional Oversight Committee. The most outstanding of these is how much money from the TARP investment has…
GM is likely to go public within the next three quarters, particularly if the economy avoids a double dip recession. The rumor is that JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:…
VW wants to be the world’s No.1 car company, and may reach that goal through its merger with Porsche. The top spot has changed hands in the last two years moving from…
GM will spare 900 of the nearly 2,000 dealerships it planned to close. That will leave it with 5,000. The revised plan will save GM money. Closing dealerships adds to the company’s…
The auto industry is trying to recover from a 2009 when U.S. companies sold only 10 million vehicles, down from 16 million in 2005. In another example of how the large manufacturers…
Douglas A. McIntyre GM better have that $40 billion IPO this year or early next. It is giving cars to baseball pitchers and putting people and dealers out of work at a torrid pace. It…
Douglas A. McIntyre Ford Motor (NYSE: F) has announced that it will recall 236,642 Focus cars in China, one of the largest in the history of the People’s Republic. China is now the world’s largest…
The incentives that drove March domestic car sales have begun to go away. These were driven primarily by manufacturers who needed to match Toyota’s (NYSE: TM) discounts as it tried to regain market share…
American cars have now passed their Asian competitors in the quality race among US consumers. The new Associated Press-GfK Poll shows that “38 percent say U.S. cars are best and 33 percent prefer…
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is crowing this morning. The company claimed that it is the leader in European sales for the month of March, displacing Volkswagen AG for the top spot.…
“Never look over your shoulder. Something might be gaining on you.”–Satchel Page Jack Welsh once said that GE would sell any division of the conglomerate that was not No.1 or No.2 in…
Car sales in China during March rose 63% to 1.26 million according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. US domestic vehicles sales for the same period were 1.07 million. When trucks…
Reuters: British Air and Iberia signed a merger deal. Reuters: US Airways (LCC) and United (UAUA) are in merger talks. Reuters: A Toyota (TM) executive warned about defects in January. Reuters: Geithner…
GM and Chrysler are short about $17 billion in contributions to the pension plans of their workers, or so says the a report from the United States General Accountability Office on the…