“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 Best Selling Vehicles by State

David Ruggles I found this chart from Dealer Communications quite interesting. Business Insider notes the following on the topic: The auto ...

Why Pay for Science?

Mike Smitka In my Industrial Organization class we chatted about the logic of funding basic science in a world of which the US is an ever-sm...

BK + Five Years

Automotive News has a retrospective with brief quotes from various participants. Let me briefly mention three that I found thoughtful despi...

Data update: November 2013

Here are assorted data for your perusal – unfortunately due to the government shutdown data releases are delayed or (for certain data) a mon...

Jay Alix Now Takes Credit for GM Bailout

Editor’s Note: Lots of people–including President Obama–have trumpeted their role in the success of the government-backed turnaround plan th...

Transparency and the Retail Auto Business

The new buzz word in the Auto Industry these days is “Transparency.” Auto manufacturers have fallen in  love with the word, as have vendors ...