Motor Racing Reacts to Worldwide Recession
With car sales suffering worldwide, the marketing and advertising budgets, where many companies keep their racing dollars, are often the first budgets to be trimmed.
With car sales suffering worldwide, the marketing and advertising budgets, where many companies keep their racing dollars, are often the first budgets to be trimmed.
Steve Parker | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business
How anxious are the Detroit Three carmakers to make sales? My wife and I were at the Los Angeles Auto Show last night, "Black Friday," at the Los Ang...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
At this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, the 205-mile per hour, $100,000, 2009 Corvette ZR1 is relegated to the very rear of the Chevrolet exhibit, like the "adults only" section in video stores.
Steve Parker | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business
Sen. Reid's new bailout bill for the Detroit Three does not set additional fuel-economy requirements, nor does it establish a government oversight board. That's two strikes against getting our money's worth.
Steve Parker | Posted 10.13.2008 | Business
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Steve Parker | Posted 10.07.2008 | Green
This post was written originally for the Santa Monica Daily Press newspaper (www.smdp.com) so please excuse the few Southern California references ......
Autobloggreen | Jeremy Korzeniewski | Posted 10.01.2008 | Green
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AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 09.23.2008 | Green
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Steve Parker | Posted 08.15.2008 | Green
GM is promoting the non-existent Chevrolet Volt, telling Olympics viewers it will be manufactured in 2010, but that's not definite. They say its gasoline powers a "generator" which keeps on-board batteries juiced-up.
Steve Parker | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
That the Detroit Three have to build cars and trucks which make sense now and in the future, and which Americans want to buy.
AP | Posted 12.07.2007 | Business
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Steve Parker | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business