By: Peter Wittwer China is seeing a huge increase in demand for SUV’s and crossover SUV’s. This bodes extremely well for Detroit auto manufacturers, who…
Month: April 2014
Ford to Introduce New CEO Mark Fields
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Current CEO of Ford Motors, Alan Mulally, plans to retire before the end of the 2014 year. Ford’s current COO Mark Fields will take his…
Why Rick Wagoner Had To Go
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While making my way through the Vlasic book, I came across an interesting article dealing with the fall of GM especially dealing with the former-CEO…
“Of course, I had it pimped out”
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In his talk today, Tom Wolfe seemed to fully embody the ideals and cultures that he explores in “Kandy-Kolored Taangerine-Flake Streamline Baby” and “The Last…
By: Peter Wittwer Tom Wolfe’s essay, “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” focuses on car customization during the 1960’s. Car customization was a growing movement, specifically…
Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places: Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry
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The paper investigates four different factors that might contribute to the regional industry agglomeration, which is a situation where firms locate near each other in…
Volti 6: Second Thoughts 1965-1990
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By 1965 the auto industry had reached its highest levels of success in its history. The market was very profitable, the cars were the most…
In the years after 1990 up to the present, the United States’ automotive industry did not see much in the way of intensive or radical…
The two decades after World War II saw incredible success for the american auto industry. Profits soared and technical innovation clipped along at a rapid…
The article “What’s in a Name?” by Helen V Hutchings describes the origin of the “Cadet”, the small car designed by Peter Brock that never…