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November 27, 2009
Who needs Formula One racing anymore? It burns up billions of dollars, pollutes the atmosphere, and can tarnish a company's image in these environmentally-conscious ...
November 25, 2009
What to do about Opel? It is a question that has plagued both the German government and parent company General Motors for much of the past year. And with GM now ...
November 18, 2009
General Motors raised union hopes that there could be fewer redundancies at Vauxhall now the U.S. parent company has decided not to sell the historic car marque. ...
November 10, 2009
Many refer to the man in charge at the corporate headquarters of General Motors (GM), housed in the five glass towers of the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit, as...
November 6, 2009
GM is playing down the spectacular volte-face over the sale of its European business this week as a simple matter of industrial logic. But the now-defunct deal always ...
October 27, 2009
Following its sale by parent company Ford (F) last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to face the thorny problem of cutting itself loose from Ford's web of ...
October 27, 2009
BMW (BMWG.DE) became the first major blue chip German company to link the bonuses of its top managers to those of its assembly line workers, amid growing global ...
October 21, 2009
First came the drums. Then other celebratory sounds rang through the factory halls as a shiny silver autobody hovered over the honorary guests gathered below. Russian ...
October 12, 2009
In a bid to boost sagging sales, Daimler Financial Services AG, the financial services arm of auto giant Daimler AG, has open two new companies in the Middle East that...
October 5, 2009
It is said that all good things must come to an end. And for German car dealers, that end came in September. Throughout the year, automobile sales had been kept at an ...
September 17, 2009
At the Frankfurt Auto Show this month, electric cars are the new black. Everyone from BMW (BMWG.DE) to an Atlanta startup called Wheego Electric Cars is trotting out ...
September 16, 2009
Daimler's executive board has moved offices within the southwestern German city of Stuttgart a number of times over the years. They first relocated across town from ...
September 15, 2009
It's pure coincidence that the biannual Frankfurt Auto Show opens a little more than a week after Germany wound down its cash-for-clunkers scheme, and as other ...
September 14, 2009
Anyone who thought the deal was done, can think again. Over the weekend all sorts of tricky issues have arisen around the announcement of the sale of General Motors' ...
September 3, 2009
For months, the automobile industry celebrated the subsidy, but now Germany's cash for clunkers bonanza is over: The government fund to pay so-called "scrapping ...
September 2, 2009
Angela Merkel likes to govern by telephone. When she wants to consult with her counterparts in other countries, the German chancellor usually reaches for the ...
August 7, 2009
Could the City of Lights soon become the City of Electric Cars? Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, building on the success of the city's popular Vélib curbside bike rental ...
August 4, 2009
The recent power struggle between Porsche (PSHG_p.DE) and the Volkswagen Group (VOWG.DE) produced one loser, dismissed Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking, and one winner, ...
July 24, 2009
As Michael Macht replaces Wendelin Wiedeking as the CEO of Porsche AG (PSHG_p.DE), a new era has dawned at the luxury sports carmaker. And the contrast between the two...
July 23, 2009
It's the end of an era at the luxury sports carmaker Porsche. The once-mighty Wendelin Wiedeking is stepping down as CEO of Porsche AG. The news was announced early on...
July 22, 2009
Sports car maker Porsche entered a severe crisis in the early 1990s. There had been a sharp slump in the US market, where Porsche sold half of its vehicles. Toyota ...
July 20, 2009
Talk to people in the auto industry, and you'll hear lots of reasons why electric cars are years away from practicality. But "those are just excuses," scoffs Tilo ...
July 20, 2009
Germany's economy minister has indicated that takeover plans for the struggling European car manufacturer, Opel, are still some way from being completed and that rival...
July 20, 2009
The histories of German automakers Volkswagen (VOWG.DE) and Porsche (PSHG_p.DE) have been intertwined since the 1930s, when Porsche founder Ferdinand Porsche designed ...
July 20, 2009
SPIEGEL has obtained information that Volkswagen (VOWG.DE) is planning a complete takeover of beleaguered sports carmaker Porsche in a series of two transactions. The ...
