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Clouds Gathering on the Horizon?

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW DETROIT, Michigan – The U.S. automotive industry has been on an impressive five-year run since the 2009 Great Recession, posting substantial profits and break-through technology achievements, all leading to record unit volumes in 2015. Even recurring business issues such as workforce readiness, challenging global market… Read more »

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The Winds of Change

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW DETROIT, MI – Cultural changes. Market changes. Ideological changes. As we move through this decade, the one constant we can expect is rapid change. In our current political climate, it has become a given. For the automotive industry, perhaps more than others, change is a… Read more »

Detroit Auto Show 2016

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW January 22, 2016 OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FLOOR OF THE SHOW Industry hits record sales volume in U. S. – Cars plus light duty and medium duty trucks topped 17.6 million in sales volume in 2015, which is an all-time volume record. With the arrival of technology… Read more »

Innovating to Make Things Better

DETROIT, Michigan – During this decade, the automotive industry has been a bellwether in its development of leading-edge technology – offering the world commercial solutions that promote vehicle safety, new mobility platforms, environmental achievements, and measurable energy efficiency. Despite the weight of product recalls and intense global socio-economic uncertainties, the industry has contributed mightily to… Read more »

Let’s Return to Purposeful Teaching

NASHVILLE, Tennessee. – The stunning economic rise of China and India over the past decade has changed the financial prospects of many American industries. Coupling this with the United States’ inability to counter its loss of manufacturing jobs, we are staking our future on advanced technology in that sector, and it has brought us to… Read more »

All Roads Lead to Silicon Valley

DETROIT, Michigan – Each day the auto industry readies itself for more culture shock as it embraces technological change by an order of magnitude. What are the innovation factors driving the technology curve in global automotive development? Connectivity, safety, personal mobility, comfort, convenience, and more. With the arrival of technology giants Google, Apple, Microsoft and… Read more »

Saving the Planet One Car at a Time

DETROIT, Michigan. – For the past seven years the U.S. auto industry has introduced new technologies and product development changes at a blistering rate. The pace of technology adoption has pushed product cadences from 6-year cycles to 2½-year cycles with modifications and vehicle enhancements virtually every year. As technology has proliferated, so today has industry… Read more »

Is Your Car Safe From Hackers?

DETROIT, Michigan. – Is your car safe from hackers? In a word…no. Greater awareness of the seriousness of car-hacking was raised over the past two weeks since two professional hackers – one of whom is a former National Security Agency employee – proved they could wirelessly hack into literally thousands of Fiat-Chrysler vehicles wirelessly and… 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 »

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    Getting Our Momentum Back
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    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 »

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    Observations from the Detroit Auto Show
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    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 »

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    Engineering Call of Duty
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    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 »

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    Riding the Texas Eagle
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    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 »

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    In the Christmas Spirit
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    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 »

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    Engineering Productivity Is Job One
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    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 »

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    Jeep Wrangler Rules!
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    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…