All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Automotive

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.

As sales fall, and gas prices rise, automakers may well turn to marketing programs that include free gasoline.

Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian plans to make an offer to Ford Motor Co. that would expand his stake to 5.6%, saying Monday he sees signs the automaker's turnaround plan is working. 

The CEO of Toyota, the one and only only global car company with experience at mass producing vehicles using hybrid, gasoline-electric, power trains said, just a month ago that the lithium-ion battery is not ready for mass production. GM has received, so far, after an investment of , perhaps, one billion...

In March I did an article on billionaire Eddie Lambert's latest investment in the country's largest public dealer group, AutoNation. At the time I questioned the move in light of the U.S. experiencing the worst year in sales since 1998. Today AutoNation reported a drop of 37% in its first quarter...

Ford's financials may be atrocious and their market share may be down, but there may be some hope for the automaker in the form of an industry outsider, Alan Mulally and an industry insider, Jim Farley.

Massive losses, dismal sales and now another blow for GM, it drops to number four in the Forbes 500.

If Chrysler hasn't demonstrated the ability to engineer a great vehicle in a market segment, hire somebody else to do it. The seeds of a strategy to do that lie in last weeks deal with Nissan. The question is whether Chrysler will decide to maximize its strengths or continue to dilute its...