By: Ted Biederman
The first major auto show of the 2003/04 season opens this weekend in Frankfurt, Germany with great expectation that the product to be previewed will one day soon help the worldwide auto market to rebound from what has been a market based on incentives instead of product.
Here’s just a peek at some of the introductions to be ...
By: Ted Biederman
It's probably been more than 20-years since General Motors first introduced its Continuous Protection Plan for used cars. Initially it was a three-month or 3,000-mile extended warranty for those used cars that could cut the mustard on a 100-point inspection.
In those days it was a tool to cut in on the profits of outside insurers offering service contracts. ...
By: Ted Biederman
Iconic cars are on the roll again at BMW with the rebirth of famed 6 Series Coupe, missing from the German automaker’s lineup since the 1990 model year.
Coupes, generally in public disfavor for the last decade have made a modest comeback in the last several years. BMW enthusiasts have been clamoring for a new coupe and BMW ...
by: Ted Biederman
Mercedes-Benz has taken the stinging in recent J.D. Power and Associates quality reports seriously. (The Westlake Village, Calif. marketing and research firm had the high-end automaker ranked at and below industry average in several studies on initial and three-year quality surveys).
In a determined effort to keep a high profile and a good image among premium luxury car buyers ...
By: Ted Biederman
In the cyclical history of the automobile manufacturing industry, an industry filled with peaks and valleys, with success and failure and with complexity far beyond our ordinary understanding the one thing that always comes to the forefront is product. Product and still more product.
In an industry that today boasts maybe 100 real producers of automobiles and has seen 10,000 ...
By: Ted Biederman
Brian Williams is the deputy mayor for transportation and the environment for the City of Los Angeles. A former city prosecutor, Williams now takes that kind of tenacity in trying to help the city develop and execute plans that will provide the constituency with better and alternative means of transportation through what is some of the worst traffic ...