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- BNET Auto's Jim Henry Hits the Airwaves
- BNET Auto's Two Jims -- Jim Henry and Jim Motavalli -- have had a busy week. If you've been paying attention, you already know about Jim Motavalli's on-air sparring with Neil Cavuto of Fox Business over global warming and the auto industry's response. Meanwhile, Jim Henry's been...
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Dear Jim Letters: The Electric-Car Future
- The two Jims have been friends for 20 years, but that doesn’t mean they agree on everything: Jim Motavalli thinks that environmental factors loom large and the EV revolution is right around the corner; Jim Henry thinks the inherent conservatism of American consumers will keep it a niche market for...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Cash for Clunkers Pilfers Renewable Energy Loan Program
- Cash for clunkers, the popular federal car trade-in program that ripped through $1 billion in a less than a month, has been extended thanks to money pilfered from a different stimulus fund that provides loan guarantees to clean energy projects. The Senate approved Thursday night extending the clunkers program by providing another $2 billion,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
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- AmeriCredit Remains Optimistic on Sub-Prime Auto Lending
- As pointed out by BNET auto industry analyst Jim Henry, U.S. auto sales for September fell 26.6% from the year-ago month, due to the credit crisis that's making it harder for some consumers to get auto loans and for automakers to finance their own operations. Operating results at Texas-based AmeriCredit...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- AmeriCredit Optimistic on Sub-Prime Auto Lending
- As pointed out BNET auto industry analyst Jim Henry, U.S. auto sales for September fell 26.6% from the year-ago month, due to the prolonged credit crisis that's making it harder for some consumers to get auto loans and for automakers to finance their own operations. Operating results at Texas-based AmeriCredit...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Detroit Auto Show: Subaru VP Tom Doll on U.S. Sales Gains With Lower Incentives
- Subaru was the biggest-selling brand to manage a year-over-year sales gain in the U.S. market in 2008. U.S. sales were 187,699, up 0.3 percent, or about 600 units. Subaru Executive Vice President Tom Doll said Subaru managed this feat without having to resort to extraordinary discounts. That’s partly because Subaru...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Detroit Auto Show: Subaru VP Tom Doll on U.S. Sales Gains Without Incentives
- Subaru was the biggest-selling brand to manage a year-over-year sales gain in the U.S. market in 2008. U.S. sales were 187,699, up 0.3 percent, or about 600 units. Subaru Executive Vice President Tom Doll said Subaru managed this feat without having to resort to extraordinary discounts. That's partly because Subaru...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Detroit Auto Show: Henrik Fisker on Start-Up Pros, Cons
- If he can pull it off, Henrik Fisker of Fisker Automotive could be the first guy to put his own name on a start-up car company and make it into production since the late John DeLorean did it in the late 1970s. You can't do that if you're a shrinking violet...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Detroit Auto Show: Mini Boss Jim McDowell on the Mini Cooper's Success
- In a disastrous automobile market, U.S. sales of the fuel-efficient Mini brand gained 29 percent in 2008 to a U.S. record 54,077 units. The U.S. overtook the U.K. as the brand’s biggest-selling single market in the world.That’s a development few people would have foreseen when parent company BMW first revived...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Lamar Doesn't See Auto Bailout Money Helping Dealer Ads
- Will any of the $17.4 billion bailout of the Detroit auto industry show up in the coffers of advertising agencies? It depends on who you ask. Ad Age recently reported that some cable networks are seeing an uptick in car advertising, and IAG Research shows the same....
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Tougher Fuel Standards To Drive Big Oil's Exodus From Retail Biz
- President Obama's soon-to-be-announced plan to establish tougher fuel-economy and emissions standards for cars and trucks already has folks busy tabulating the potential affect on the environment, auto industry and consumers. The stricter regulations -- expected to curb tailpipe emissions 30 percent by 2016, as BNET Auto points out -- also will...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- BNET's Worst Ads of 2008
- It was a banner year for truly awful advertising. Here's BNET's Worst Ads of 2008: Extended Stay Hotels "farting" ad Extended Stay wanted viewers to know that you'd feel so comfortable at their place you'd feel free to break wind any time you wanted. So they...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Headin' South: A Songwriter Looks at the Auto Industry
- Danny Schmidt is an Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter. He drives a beat-up 1990 Honda Civic that is a hand-me-down from his father, who is a mechanical engineer at the University of Texas (and incidentally, a sometime technical media consultant to Toyota on the ultra-green Prius). ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Auto Industry and Green Groups Agree on Landmark Climate Policy
- In a swift bit of Congressional maneuvering September 24, the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed amendment from longtime global warming skeptic Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that would have effectively killed President Obama’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. What’s interesting is that the auto industry itself opposed...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Omnicom, Publicis Worst Hit in Auto Brand Axings
- The news that General Motors and Chrysler are to cut or scale back several automobile brands will fall most heavily on Omnicom and its BBDO and PHD units. Publicis's Leo Burnett and its media group will also suffer. Coming out of the fallout somewhat less lethally injured...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- EPA Transportation and Air Quality Chief Talks to BNET Autos About 35.5 MPG
- Margo Oge , a Toyota Prius driver, is the director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s office of transportation and air quality, and she sat down with BNET Autos just after a public hearing on the EPA and Department of Transportation’s proposed standards mandating that cars sold in the U.S. reach...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Pontiac's End Appraised -- Could Its Aussie Sedan Be the Next LA Cop Car?
- Pontiac and its legacy will be feted in the weeks and months to come, its history alive with milestones. Others are not so maudlin about the departure of the 83-year-old brand, but there is little doubt that General Motors' Pontiac brand played a big role in auto...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Will Ford Lead in Contracting When the Feds Own Stakes in GM and Chrysler?
- If the federal government ends up owning significant equity stakes in GM and Chrylser, will the automakers be able to participate in competitively-bid contracts? Will Ford -- and perhaps foreign automakers -- have a real edge as a result? BNET Auto blogger Steve Miller ponders the procurement consequences of the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Tesla Gets $465 Million Government Shot in the Arm
- It's been a big week for Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. And it's only Tuesday. Musk started the week by firing off a detailed rebuttal of sorts -- in a lengthy blog post -- to Martin Eberhard's lawsuit against him. Today, Tesla received $465 million from the Department of Energy to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Senate Returns Funding to Hydrogen -- What's Next?
- In another reversal to the Obama administration, the U.S. Senate has decided to give back funding to hydrogen vehicle development that Department of Energy head Steven Chu tried to pull back in May The administration has tried to back away from various projects it sees as unreasonable...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
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