Quote Of The Day: Help Wanted Edition
A person that’s a motivating, inspirational leader that’s familiar with big companies — manufacturing or industrial — would be helpful… We can’t pay people a whole lot of money here Ed Whitacre offers...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: The Teflon Automaker Edition
As soon as the vessel embarks, all risks related to the vessel are the responsibility of the distributor. All payments for the cars have been made, while the cars are also insured. From a Hyundai...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: Ed Whitacre’s Big Lie Edition
It’s a bit early in the day to be crowning a QOTD, especially considering there are sure to be plenty of juicy quotes coming out of the NAIAS today. Still, this one deserves a special place at TTAC...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: Chry The Beloved Automaker Edition
Chrysler may file a suit challenging the congressionally mandated dealer cull arbitration, reveals CEO Sergio Marchionne to Automotive News [sub].Why? Because it’s just not fair that dealers pressured...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: Cash For Geezers?
Letter to the editor of the New Times by Robert Pankhurst: “On my drive home yesterday, an advertisement over my car radio told me how much the Cancer Society needed old cars donated to help them...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: The DetN Can’t Count
“About 13.8 million vehicles were sold in 2010 in China compared with 11.6 million in the United States.” The Detroit News Yesterday, we had a short seminar on Chinese new car statistics. Apparently,...
View ArticleQuote Of The Weekend: Heavy Duty Demand Edition
In his New York Times comparison of heavy-duty pickup trucks, Ezra Dyer opens with a provocative comparison: Heavy-Duty pickup trucks are the supercars of the truck world. They have more power than...
View ArticleQOTD: PSA, Renault Cars Lack “Ambition”
“When you do everything right but too late, you do it all wrong. Before reaching a dead end, PSA decided to forge a partnership with a manufacturer [General Motors] that I don’t consider to be among...
View ArticleQOTD: “You Are Full Of Shit”– Ralph Gilles to Donald Trump
Pursuant to our continued discrediting of the “Jeeps built in China” lie, Donald Trump took to Twitter to further propagate that falsehood. And the Donald ended up getting a virtual earful from Ralph...
View ArticleQOTD: What Makes A Good Track Package
The V6 Mustang reviewed yesterday wouldn’t be the car it was without the Track Package, which provides pretty substantial upgrades to the brakes and suspension. As Sympatico’s Brian Makse points out,...
View ArticleQOTD: How The Cadillac ATS Almost Became FWD
The multi-billion dollar endeavor of developing a new car has effectively ended the one-off specialty car that many enthusiasts still clamor for and wronglyassert is feasible in this era....
View ArticleDan Ammann Disses Deutschland’s Drive For Volume
Cadillac may be gunning too hard for Germany’s domain of rear-drive sports sedans, but one area where The Standard of the World won’t be gunning for them is in the volume race. GM CFO Dan Ammann told...
View ArticleQOTD: Honda Insight Failed Because Of Marketing
Did the second-generation Honda Insight fail in the marketplace because of a lack of marketing resources? If you said “yes”, then you may want to look at a gig at American Honda. Speaking to Ward’s...
View ArticleQOTD: In Defense Of The Toyota Camry
We treat the physical results of capitalism as though they were an inevitability. In 1955, no captain of industry, prince, or potentate could buy a car as good as a Toyota Camry, to say nothing of a...
View ArticleQOTD: Why There Will Be No “Made In China” Lexus Products
Currently, there is only one Lexus plant outside of Japan. A Toyota factory in Cambridge, Ontario makes the Lexus RX crossover, while Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky plant will come online in 2015. Like...
View ArticleQOTD: Regulation Is Ruining Car Design
Today’s installment of Quote of the Day comes from Mark Adams, design chief for Opel/Vauxhall and creator of the Monza concept, which is expected to set the design direction for the two brands in the...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: The Colorado Pricing Paradox
The pricing announcement for GM’s mid-size trucks raised a big question at TTAC – namely, how are they supposed to compete with GM’s full-size trucks when there are such hefty rebates already...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: Obama –“Enjoy Cheap Gas, It Won’t Last”
“I would strongly advise American consumers to continue to think about how you save money at the pump because it is good for the environment, it’s good for family pocketbooks and if you go back to old...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: The Golden Fleece
Today’s Quote of the Day actually comes from someone I know, with a used car question. “this guy im sleeping with wants to sell me 05 caliber 125k [77,000 miles] for $6k. Good deal?” You don’t need...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day: Mercedes-Benz NEEDS MOAR MODELS!!!111
In the never ending quest for volume uber alles, Mercedes-Benz has announced that “four new vehicles without a predecessor model will be launched”. The need for scale in the auto industry has never...
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