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Friday, Nov 13

2010 Car of the Year - The Year the Car Biz Changed

BMW 7 SERIES BMW Z4 BUICK LACROSSE CHEVROLET CAMARO FORD FUSION FORD MUSTANG FORD TAURUS HONDA INSIGHT HYUNDAI GENESIS COUPE KIA FORTE KIA SOUL LEXUS HS 250H MAZDA3 MERCEDES-BENZ E-CLASS COUPE MERCEDES-BENZ E-CLASS NISSAN 370Z NISSAN CUBE PORSCHE PANAMERA SUBARU LEGACY

Friday, Nov 6

Enthusiasts On GM's Board Saved Opel

It takes two generations of a vehicle to establish a reputation in mature markets like Western Europe and North America. Hyundai is growing quickly here, but most models have gone through a couple of generations with a 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty. And Hyundai needs to more than double...

Tuesday, Oct 27

American Car Quality Improves, but Asians Still Dominate

Ford is the only domestic automaker with world-class reliability," Paul says. While Fusion/Milan beat Camry/Accord on the number of quality/reliability problems reported, the all-wheel-drive Fusion was rated lower. More on such anomalies later.

Wednesday, Oct 21

Tokyo Motor Show, We Hardly Knew Ye...

TOKYO, JAPAN - I covered my first Asian auto show in the Spring of 1999. It was in Seoul, South Korea. Displays and press conferences were limited to Korean brands, Hyundai, Kia, Daewoo, Samsung and Ssangyong. Press conferences started at 9 a.m. and were done by noon.

Wednesday, Oct 14

Is Toyota Paying the Penalty of Leadership?

Yes, we've heard that from Lutz before. The big difference isn't The New GM. It's too early for that. The big difference is that now, Toyota is firmly, unquestionably ahead of GM in global sales, even if GM counts tiny trucks built in its co-owned Chinese factories. If/when GM completes the sal...

Thursday, Oct 1

September Sales -- Ford Strengthens, Hyundai is up 27 Percent

Hyundai reported 31,511 cars and trucks sold, up 27 percent compared with last September. For the year so far, Hyundai is up 1.4 percent. If it combined its sales with Kia, it would be just 3,000 units short of Nissan North America sales, which includes Infiniti. OTHERS ...

Friday, Sep 25

True to the Brand? Proliferating Chryslers and Competing with Cadillac

Press understood that Chrysler had become a niche automaker by popular demand and knew that is its long-term future. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Honda is a niche brand here, compared with GM, Toyota and Ford. For now, Hyundai and Kia are niche brands, although probably not for...

Wednesday, Sep 16

Frankfurt Show: Light at the End of the Tunnel?

For example, Frankfurt 2009 is giving the world the first glimpse of the new Bentley Mulsanne, the new Rolls-Royce Ghost, and Ferrari's 458 Italia. Less glamorous perhaps, but no less important to their companies, are debuts such as the Ford C-Max, Renault Fluence, Citroen C3, Opel Astr...

Tuesday, Sep 8

Can GM Keep Opel?

I can't say whether the car business has improved enough over the summer in Europe, China and North America to put GM in a better financial position and let it hang on to Opel/Vauxhall. We won't get an official answer until GM posts its next quarterly results. Or, maybe, if something actually...

Tuesday, Sep 1

August Sales: Will Cash For Clunkers Help Autumn Numbers?

DETROIT - Ford Motor Company's August sales were up 17 percent (21 percent retail) over August 2008. Toyota Motor was up 10.5 percent and American Honda rose 14.2 percent. Like last month, Toyota outsold Ford in the United States, 225,088 to 176,323 (not including Volvo). General Motors' sal...

Tuesday, Jun 2

May Sales: Hummer Outsells Civic â€¦ to Chinese Heavy Duty Truck Manufacturer

Total sales of GM's Core Four was 168,623, still ahead of Ford-Mercury-Lincoln's 155,954 and Toyota-Lexus-Scion's 152,583. Chevrolet alone sold 127,510, still below Toyota division's 135,661 and the Ford brand's 137,167. Hyundai posted its second 14-percent decline in a row, to 33,...

Monday, Jun 1

The Product GM Needs If it Survives Bankruptcy

And under Smith, GM went from a mostly rear-drive to mostly front-drive automaker in one quick, ugly decade. Even with the 2012-16 CAFE standards, it needed better balance; front-drive for small and midsize cars and rear-drive for big and premium cars. Besides various-sized premium RWD...

Thursday, Apr 9

2009 New York: Equus -- Why Hyundai Has Nothing To Lose

Barely two years ago, many Americans would have laughed at the idea of a $60,000 Hyundai sedan. But the smooth and refined Genesis sedan is rapidly changing consumer perceptions of the Korean automaker. The Equus is a gamble, but Hyundai really has nothing to lose.

Wednesday, Apr 8

2009 New York: It's Tough Out There

U.S sales are currently running under 10 million vehicles, well below Ford's worse case estimates, and unless demand for pickup trucks spikes dramatically in the fourth quarter as the federal stimulus money begins to kickstart a bunch of construction projects, it's hard to see them imp...

Wednesday, Apr 1

March Auto Sales: Have We Bottomed Out?

DETROIT - Year-over-year percentage drops remain dismal, with General Motors again looking the worst with a 45-percent drop. Yet the automakers sounded a bit more upbeat, citing strong end-of-month sales as Ford Motor Company and GM announced Hyundai-like consumer protection progr...

Wednesday, Mar 25

Camaro V-6 vs Genesis Coupe

Last week I flogged the 210 horsepower, turbo four cylinder Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T and wrote about it in my weekly Lohdown column. Among the responses I received were the following pearls of wisdom: â€œWow all these new Camaros, Mustangs, Zs, and now the Genesis are going to create a hu...

Wednesday, Mar 18

Opinion: The Lohdown: A Midnight Run in the Genesis Coupe 2.0T

â€œBut there is hope with Hyundai. It's already committed to building a rear-wheel-drive sports coupe from its new Genesis luxury-sedan platform. And should it thread the needle and bring to market a Tiburon that hits the rest of the trifecta (rear-wheel-drive, affordable, turbo four-...

Tuesday, Mar 10

Audi Finds "Flat" Profitable

DETROIT - Dave Zuchowski said it best last month at the Chicago Auto Show. "Flat is the new up," the Hyundai Motor America sales veep said. Subaru, which had flat sales in North America last year, understands that. And Volkswagen Group's Audi AG, which broke records globally for production,...

Tuesday, Feb 24

2009 Hyundai Genesis: A Car Detroit Can Now Only Dream of Building?

I'll let you into a little secret: the Hyundai Genesis came close to winning the 2009 Motor Trend Car of the Year title. You will recall Hyundai's big rear drive sedan secured votes from two of the COTY judging panel. But what you won't know is that it was the second choice of six of the judges. (In...

Tuesday, Feb 3

Bloody January: Shutdowns Kill Fleet Sales, Hyundai's Assurance Program Works

DETROIT - You've heard about the Hyundai Assurance Program, the one that guarantees the South Korean company will buy back your new car if you lose your income? It works. Hyundai Motor America announced Tuesday a 14-percent increase in sales compared with January 2008. Hyundai sold 24,51...

Wednesday, Nov 12

2009 Motor Trend Car of the Year Contender: Hyundai Genesis

Yogi Berra's great line, "deja vu all over again," has often been repurposed to automotive occasions, but it's hard to think of a better one than this case of the new Hyundai Genesis luxury sedan. Way back in 1989, Toyota introduced a big luxury sedan it called the Lexus LS 400 -- a car, Toyota...