Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EST
No matter who 'wins' in the protracted protest over land in India's impoverished West Bengal region, the innovative Tata Nano will lose.
For the most part, China's auto industry is developing nicely with many partnerships between domestic and foreign automakers. But there are exceptions. Take Fiat Auto. Yang Jian is the managing editor of Automotive News China.
Mandatory arbitration is an invaluable tool that many dealers, including me, use to settle disputes related to auto sales. In countless situations, arbitration has saved me and my customers time, money and courtroom-induced headaches.
A couple of weekends ago in different parts of the country, Americans once again demonstrated that they love cars. In Detroit, the Woodward Dream Cruise drew well over a million people with more than 30,000 old cars.
I have to admit that I don't find it appealing to consider a future in which we'll all be driving electric cars. I don't have anything against using electrically powered public transportation, and I do so regularly.
Many big corporate mergers and buyouts, in my estimation, are the result of restless, ego-driven rich boys playing with billions of dollars simply because they can Richard Truett is the engineering beat reporter for Automotive News.
When Schaeffler Group made its bid for Continental, it looked like there was no chance things would end well for Conti CEO Manfred Wennemer.