Susan Carney

Jeep Grand Cherokee will have third row of seats

Jurgen Schrempp, Chairman of DaimlerChrysler AG, says the company will offer a Jeep Grand Cherokee with a third row of seats. His assurance comes as the company's Chrysler group in North America is reviewing product plans in an effort to cut costs…

Donlon sent back to USA to help lower costs at Chrysler

DaimlerChrysler has sent a top financial executive back to North America as it tries to cut costs at its struggling Chrysler operations. The company sent Jim Donlon back to Chrysler group headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, as senior vice…

Sheila Gallucci-Davis

Title: VP, General Counsel and Secretary Company: Subaru of America Inc. Age: 42 Education: B.A., pre-law, Pennsylvania State University J.D., Dickinson School of Law First automotive job: General Corporate Counsel at Subaru, 1987 Proudest…

Dealer, son he fired reach settlement

A Louisville, Ky., Ford dealer and his son have ended their court battle with a mediated settlement after nine days of testimony in Jefferson County Circuit Court in Louisville. Terms of the agreement reached between Gary Collins and his father,…

Letters

Retiree: Smale gutted Chevrolet Your June 5 article on John Smale retiring from the General Motors board of directors was a bit brief and incomplete. He was a GM director for 18 years - 10 of them before he led the 1992 boardroom coup that ousted the…

Penske gave a luster to Detroit Diesel

The Detroit Diesel Corp. that DaimlerChrysler AG is buying is a far different company from the one Roger Penske took over from General Motors in 1988. DaimlerChrysler gets a proven performer that today holds about 25 percent of the heavy-duty diesel…

Continental uses Six Sigma to slash production costs

As automakers continue to pressure suppliers to cut prices, suppliers are exploring ways to cut costs and increase profits. One option: The Six Sigma quality program. Continental Teves Inc. supplies about 350,000 master cylinders annually to…

AutoNation stores take old name in Florida

AutoNation Inc. will rename 28 of its 30 dealerships in South Florida after dealer-president Mike Maroone. The move continues AutoNation's strategy of uniting local bricks-and-mortar stores under one brand while maintaining a national brand for…

How desperate dealer's subprime plan works

Buy-here, pay-here dealers have more money invested in inventory than they can collect in down payments. It can take months of waiting for payments to come in before a dealer sees anything but paper profit. Tom Reed, a Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac…

They have the technology, but why can't auto suppliers impress the investors?

Automotive suppliers at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress in Detroit this month showed a vast array of advanced technologies that could transform the driving experience as we know it. In other industries, such innovation would…

Delphi 4-wheel system improves SUV handling

DETROIT - Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. has a new four-wheel steering system for big sport-utilities that could make the vehicles significantly more maneuverable. Quadrasteer improves the handling and stability of full-sized vehicles by…

Success is in stock at Audi

Life is good at Audi. So good, Audi dealers now are dealing with the pitfalls that often accompany rapid sales growth: shortages of product, parts and staff. That was the state of the company that emerged from Audi's franchise meeting during the NADA…

J.T. reshapes top team at Delphi

DETROIT - It has been J.T. Battenberg III's mission to forge 'Team Delphi' from the collection of former General Motors units that is Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. The chairman, chief executive and president of the world's largest automotive…

Digest

Dorland wins Volvo business COLOGNE - Volvo has awarded its euro 28 million advertising business in Germany, Switzerland and Austria to Grey-owned Dorland, Berlin. The appointment followed the recent resignation of the account by FCB Wilkens,…

How Castaing helped fuel the SUV craze

Francois Castaing was among the creators of the sport-utility trend that is now sweeping western Europe, and has propelled the North American automotive industry for the past decade. A former technical director for Renault motorsport programs,…

Quotes about Henry Ford

'It will take a hundred years to tell whether he helped us or hurt us, but he certainly didn't leave us where he found us.' 'If it were possible to preserve alive, for the interests of history, one man from each century and country - not, of course,…

Toyota consolidates e-commerce activities

Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. has unveiled an ambitious plan to help dealers sell cars over the Internet. Through its new Office of the Web, Toyota has centralized its e-commerce activities. Its mission: Entrench the company in the virtual…

Indictment of Officer in Fatal Shooting Rejected

With Officer Charged in Shooting, '96 Case Divides Many