All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Automotive

General Motors, battered for decades by hot-selling, stylish, dependable, vehicles from European, and Asian automakers, seemed to have the field to itself in the race to produce an electric vehicle. Now, it seems everyone want's to join the party. With its announcement last week that it expects...

The American OEM automotive industry has studiously ignored all of the market's warning signals and forced its supply base to absorb the raw material price increases stemming from huge Asian demand and a falling dollar. This was done out of fear of being priced out of their own domestic market as well...

The alliance of Freescale and Chery to develop MCU and chipset technology means tremendous potential for Freescale growth in Asia. Freescale's recent acquisition of SigmaTel could give Freescale an avenue to grow share of automotive multimedia and infotainment chipset applications. Freescale is well...

They may have been taken by surprise as they claim, but Ford had better put a game plan together quickly if they are to deal effectively with the latest bid by investor Kirk Kerkorian.

Toyota finds itself buffeted by a triple whammy of outside forces: An unraveling U.S. market, surging raw material costs and a Japanese yen that continues to rise in value against the dollar. 

On one hand, the automakers are trying to entice customers into their showrooms with gas price guarantees, rebates, and cash incentives, on the other hand, lenders are pulling back by tightening lending standards. Oh, and did we mention, bankruptcies are up 47 percent!

As I suggested in an article last week, Detroit is looking at gas as an incentive in place of cash in order to get sales moving.

The first industrial revolution in the west highgraded out the world's then known and accessible metal ores and energy minerals. Extraction and refining technologies have since kept up with the declining grades of ores and minerals accessible with today's infrastructures and machinery. But finally,...

The significance or the emerging markets in Russia, India, China, and Brazil should not be underestimated by any automotive OEM who wants to experience significant growth in the future. In addition, the implication that raw material sourcing and pricing as well as manufacturing and logisitcs cost control...

As car buyers switch from pickups and large SUV's the Detroit automakers have to be careful not to overlook one of the most important car markets in the world, California.