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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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    Choosing the Right Path
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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW March 1, 2013- 9:30 am ET DETROIT, Mich. – Developing effective alliances to insure that you don’t end up doing the wrong thing really well has become the new strategic standard in the global automotive industry. More than ever it is essential to pick the… Read more »

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    Extreme Makeover for Car Dealers
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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW February 19, 2013  3:30 P.M. ET DETROIT, Mich. – Recently your father’s car dealership is starting to look a lot different. With the punishment of last decade’s runaway overcapacity in the North American car market, all of the players in the automotive value chain have… Read more »

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    Photos from the 2013 Detroit Auto Show
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    Detroit Auto Show
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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW January 22, 2013   10:30 A.M. ET DETROIT, Mich. – The 2013 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) wrapped up last week in Detroit, and once again there was plenty of focus on advanced technology, alternative powertrains, new concepts, and the key business issues facing the… Read more »

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    If We Build It…Will They Come?
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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW January 3, 2013  1:30 P.M. ET DETROIT, Mich.– As 2013 begins, what is the commercial future for the electric vehicle? Will it ever be an industry success?  When can we expect to see increased demand and appropriate volume growth?  Here are a few observations of… Read more »

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    Into the Minefields
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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW October 16, 2012 – 9:30 am ET DETROIT, Mich.– As we approach Election Day, we are once again reminded of how divided our nation has become and that very few issues are easy to resolve anymore.  Socio-political disagreements litter the national landscape making it much… Read more »

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    The Workforce Dilemma
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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW August 20, 2012 – 9:30 am ET TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.– Last week at the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefings there was quite a bit to celebrate – industry sales up 14% from last year, 20 million new U.S. drivers expected on American roads this… Read more »

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    Chrysler’s New Road Home
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    buy cigarettes online usa Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW August 1, 2012 – 2:30 pm ET AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Life is a lot better for Chrysler today. Seeing sales drop from 2.6 million units in 1999 to only 1.4 million last year, Chrysler deeply suffered the sting of the Great Recession… Read more »

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    Transforming Mexico
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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW April 10, 2012 – 9:30 am ET COBA MAYA, Mexico – Dotted all along the eastern corridor of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula are the resorts and vacation communities that support a significant part of the Mexican economy.  These communities that stretch from Cancun to Coba Maya… Read more »

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    Gas Prices Got You Down?
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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW March 16, 2012 – 2:30 pm ET GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Making weekly drives to the east side of the state, I cannot help but be keenly aware of rising gas prices.  We all felt a harsh “shock at the pump” in 2011, with even… Read more »