Posts Categorized: Automotive

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW February 19, 2014 – 5:30 pm ET DETROIT, Michigan. – With the dazzling excitement of the auto shows in Detroit and Chicago long behind us now, and the enthusiasm and promises of the NADA Convention just a speck in the rear-view mirror, now what? All… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW January 23, 2014 – 8:30 am ET New General Motors CEO Mary Barra was the talk of the town… Certainly by now you know that Mary Barra is GM’s new CEO, with background in engineering, an MBA from Stanford and herself a GM-lifer. Her ascension… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW January 6, 2014 – 1:30 pm ET DETROIT, Michigan. – Now that 2013 has drawn to a close, most automakers have realized a nearly double digit year-over-year gain in the U.S. car and light-duty vehicle market, and that’s a pace we haven’t seen since 2007…. Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW December 10, 2013 – 6:30 am ET CHICAGO, IL – Quite a feat for me the last few days trying to creatively draw up a plan to get home from Dallas to Michigan. With the weather causing havoc not only in Texas but throughout the… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW December 8, 2013 – 7:30 am ET DALLAS, Texas. – I flew to Dallas for business meetings for two days this week, and upon arrival everything unfolded as it normally does…in a fairly routine, typical way. Typical that is until Mother Nature intervened. A blast… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW December 5, 2013 – 4:30 pm ET DETROIT, Mich. – Perhaps the most critical issue of all facing the automotive sector is workforce readiness and deployment as the industry regains its momentum. The workforce areas most acutely affected are the training of assembly line workers to… Read more »

While the EVs and other alternative powertrain vehicles are struggling to achieve commercial success, the very cool looking Jeep Wrangler continue to do brisk sales in North America among the Echo Boomers…

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW October 21, 2013 – 1:30 pm ET GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – If you take a close look at some major global industries you’ll see what you’d expect to find…companies that fight hard to win in the marketplace. Not surprisingly, many of these are fierce competitors… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW September 30, 2013 – 10:30 am ET DETROIT, Mich. – With volumes surging over the past two years and record OEM earnings reported, the auto space has rebounded smartly from the dark days of the Great Recession. Nevertheless, there is seemingly an endless parade of… Read more »

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW September 5, 2013 – 6:30 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – Events the past two weeks in Syria remind us how fragile the United States has become regarding its oil dependency, and have put a spotlight on our glaring lack of a national energy policy. Regional… Read more »