Posts Categorized: Automotive

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    From the floor of the 2015 Detroit Auto Show…

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    The Rise of the South

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW December 28, 2014 – 12:30 pm ET NASHVILLE, Tennessee – It’s not just the SEC and college football that have gained national stature in the southern tier of the United States in recent years, it is also our domestic auto industry. Over the past twenty… Read more »

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    Deeper Problems in Mexico

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW November 11, 2014 – 10:30 pm ET CELAYA, Mexico – Along Mexico’s northern border, south to Mexico City, the automotive industry has made its presence felt here for three decades. Automakers from around the globe targeted Mexico as a regional manufacturing destination in the mid-1980’s. … Read more »

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    What’s Happening at Lincoln?

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW October 16, 2014 – 1:30 pm ET DEARBORN, Michigan. – In the midst of our all-out industry recovery, one of the fastest-growing and most competitive vehicle markets is the F-segment or full-size luxury car. Today, as factors other than cost drive vehicle investments, nowhere have… Read more »

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    Fuel Cell Furor

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW September 14, 2014 – 10:50 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – As vast amounts of technology and leading-edge development pour into the auto space, new organic automotive initiatives continue to emerge to create previously undeveloped business segments such as Self-Driving Vehicle (SDV), V2V (Vehicle-to-vehicle), V2I (Vehicle-to-infrastructure),… Read more »

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    Will 2014 Sales Keep Up the Pace?

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW July 17, 2014 – 11:00 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – Most auto industry experts euphorically proclaimed optimism for continued growth late last year as 2013 finished with sales of 15.6 million new passenger cars and light trucks. But in December when none of the world’s… Read more »

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    Losing Weight to Make Room

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW June 26, 2014 – 12:30 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – Not a reference to the growing number of Americans and our never-ending trek to shed pounds, but instead the automotive industry’s innovative efforts to take weight out of vehicle lineups. OEMs are devoting enormous time… Read more »

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    Natural Gas Has Arrived

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW May 19, 2014 – 11:30 am ET NASHVILLE, Tennessee. – With gasoline prices soaring over the past several years, many American car buyers are looking at available powertrain alternatives for relief, and chief among those options is compressed natural gas (CNG). The private commercial drilling… Read more »

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    Doing Things the Right Way

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW March 28, 2014 – 11:30 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – The enormous array of new technology aimed at the automotive industry coupled with the constant splintering of demographic segments and the ever-growing complexity of building the vehicle brings exciting challenges most days for the OEMs,… Read more »

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    What’s Next for the UAW?

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW February 26, 2014 – 8:30 pm ET CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee. – By all accounts, Bob King and the UAW leadership were not expecting the decision they got recently from the Volkswagen workforce in Tennessee. The outcome validated yet another certainty about the American worker: “If you… Read more »