I am truly baffled that the industry that created a lot of great MBA course studies missed out on this one big time.  GM, Chrysler and Ford failed to cover their market segments.   And they capitalized on a trend for short-term gain, forgetting that a trend is just that, a trend that will not last. I am talking about SUVs and large ...

There’s hardly any British auto industry these days.  MGB is still around, but that isn’t exactly what I call an industry for a first world country.  And it certainly isn’t even a shadow of the once mighty and proud British automotive industry that thrived along with their German and Italian counterparts. US car marks might not be so fortunate as to find benevolent companies to bail them out. Everyone is reeling from the global financial ...

The US auto makers are to blame.  Ever since the 50s, US cars have been known to be engineered in excess.  They are large gas-guzzlers that are often the butt of jokes among the Europeans and Japanese who refer to engineer compact and fuel efficient cars. And for the last 20 years, the US industry has been basking on SUVs that just ...

The Brits have long ago lost their thriving automobile industry.  Those famous marquees associated with the King and Queen of England are gone.  The Bentley has gone to German car maker Volkswagen.  The Rolls-Royce is now with BMW.  And so are the Rovers and the Jaguars. Now, it looks like the same will happen with the US auto ...

GM and Chrysler are being sustained by the US taxpapers through bonds.  They are effectively asking the people for load.  Unless Barack Obama goes ahead with his restructuring scheme for the ailing US auto industry, GM and Chrysler are now at the brink of bankruptcy. GM has been asking its bondholders to swallow a 70% reduction in the ...