All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Automotive

What does the Ford Tata Motor deal have to do with the seeming decline of automotive jobs in the U.S.? In a word, "everything."

Plastech Engineering, now in bankruptcy, was advertised as the largest minority owned and operated OEM automotive plastics supplier. In fact, it was a synthetic business, a money losing enterprise, created by the pressure, for minority content, which was generated by various Federal and State agencies...

If there were a king of German automaking, Volkswagen supervisory board chairman, Ferdinand Piech has crowned himself as such.

Another rise in the cost of gas could be all it takes for almost a third of new-vehicle car buyers to seek out a more fuel efficient ride.

Last week GM's most important 'car guy' let the cat out of the bag. GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz let it be known that for the first time the market is driving GM's decisions on which products to take forward on a green path. The public clearly does not want a car for which there is no fuel available today...

Not that anybody was passing the hat for Bill Ford, Ford Motor Co's Chairman, but the annoncement may be significant because it could portend that Ford will soon return to profitability. Particulary, coming on the heels of Fords announcement of the sale of Jaguar/Land Rover to Tata M...

The global auto industry will get a major new player when Indian automaker Tata Motors finalizes its purchase of Jaguar and Land-Rover. But, not everyone is happy about it.

The announcement by GM at the Geneva Motor Show that it will be offering for sale, next year, a high end SUV with a lithium iron phosphate battery equipped two mode hybrid power train followed the announcement the day before by Daimler of a high end Mercedes S-class hybrid to be introduced next...

Porsche's takeover of Volkswagen should result in improvements for both companies. Porsche will have access to a much larger base of research and development capital for future Porsche models, will have access to Volkswagen distribution network and supplier base, and will certainly see financial...

Any new battery technology for use in a passenger or freight carrying vehicle will start out as very, very, expensive; its cost of development and prototype production will have to recovered somehow in the selling price of the cars. Assuming even that Daimler corporation has in hand, or is extremely...