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Decision Close: Opel Will Close Bochum, Keep Ellesmere Port Open
Tomorrow, Thursday morning, GM will most likely announce that the new Opel Astra will be built at the Ellesmere Port plant near Liverpool, and no longer in Germany.
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Europe In April 2012: Car Sales Down 6.9 Percent
Listening to the news from Europe, one thinks that there is chaos in the streets of Europe. Not yet. But Europeans are clearing room for chaos by buying fewer cars
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Quotations From Chairman Carlos Ghosn
Ford wanted to hire Carlos Ghosn instead of Mulally. Ghosn said no.
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Reading The Chinese Tea Leaves: April Market Not As Strong As It May Appear
News of strong April results of key players in the world’s largest auto market China may indicate than China’s rest and recuperation period is over.
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Opel Commemorates May 8th With A Slow Strip
While other car companies are perfecting the art of the slow on-line strip-tease of their car pictures, over in Germany, GM’s Opel does a slow reveal of a name. Opel asks everybody to “get ready for May 8th, when we will announce the true name of our latest model.” Of course, the disrobing of the name has its own Facebook page
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GM Eats Its Children: Cuts Research And Development
If you want to pretty-up the P&L of a car company, there are two quick fixes: You cut marketing expenses, or you cut R&D. A cut of R&D expenses won’t show up negatively for three to five years, when you suddenly lack new cars to sell. In the meantime, you look like a hero.
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GM And Isuzu Want To Rekindle Old Tie-Up
Here some background on the GM/Isuzu tie-up.
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Gleanings Of The 2010 Beijing Auto Show: Breasts Draw Reprimand, Ears Cool
Beijing authorities have slapped organizers of the 2012 Beijing Auto Show with a “serious reprimand” for featuring scantily-clad models. Beijing’s Capital Ethics Development Office said that the revealing clothing of some models at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition has had a “negative social impact,” the state-owned news agency Xinhua reports. The ethics office criticized the “vulgar publicity” surrounding the models
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2012 Beijing Auto Show: Press Causes Monster Traffic Jam
First media day at the Beijing Auto Show. Accredited working press only.
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2012 Beijing Auto Show: Capture The Real Red Flag
So today The Tycho, proprietor of Carnewschina and expert on Mao-era-revival cars, intercepts me at the show and says: “You did it all wrong! You talked about the H7, but showed the L7!” “I beg your pardon?” It turns out he was right as usual. In my piece on the Red Flag car , the wrong pictures were added to the wrong text. Corrected
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2012 Beijing Auto Show: What A Dragon
The Jeep was the first American car made in China through a joint venture. Somewhere along the way, Jeep lost it.
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2012 Beijing Auto Show: Red Flag, Based On Meatball
Revival of the venerable “Red Flag”: The Hongqi H7.