Okay, August new car sales in Britain were bad. Very bad. And they should give people like the Chancellor Alistair 'we're doomed' Darling and the grandees on the Bank of England's interest rate rev...

Going to Paris?

If you are going to Paris for the auto show next month and planning to be there on the press day (Oct 2), my advice would be - get your accommodation booked quick. I should have learned my lessons ...

Transatlantic product issues, segmentation and oil

I've come across an interesting posting on GM's corporate blog 'driving conversations'. Carl-Peter Forster very succintly explains GM's position on getting its smaller European cars into the US mar...

Nano Argy Bhaji

Sounds like it's been 'kicking off' lately at a still-under-construction Tata Nano plant in the troubled Indian province of West Bengal. Construction work at the plant has had to be 'indefinitely s...

'Interesting times' for Volvo Car

So, Fredrik Arp has left Volvo Car Corporation. As far as I can see, he is 55-years of age and that's a bit young for retirement I would think. I interviewed him a few years ago and found him to be...