Mitsubishi Motors: Going, going ... gone?

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) is trumpeting record profits. I'm not convinced things are so rosy: they've also just restructur...

“Buy a Car, Get a Check” and the recent NADA White Paper on Incentives

ruggles: the following is a collection of notes and has not a published column. NADA recently published a long awaited white paper on incent...

The Bad Old Days: Chrysler Mack Stamping

I often wonder how many people read this blog. I was thus heartened by a substantive comment on my previous post on Mack Stamping in the Ci...

Taxpayers Will Lose Money on GM Investment

... calculate what it would have cost to NOT rescue the auto industry... Below are comments on the following article. GM Share Price Needs t...

Mack Stamping, or a Tale of Detroit's Decline

...[Mack] was a six-story structure [from] 1916... Detroit is in bankruptcy for three reasons. One is that a city is a fixed cost enterprise...