By: Ted Biederman
Washington D.C. --- It’s rather disconcerting sitting on the rooftop of the historic Hays-Adams Hotel waiting for dinner service and a hearty discussion about the latest Volvo S80 that we had driven earlier in the day through the Virginia countryside, while peering down at the White House and the uniformed Secret Service agents stationed on the rooftop ...
By: Ted Biederman
CANTON, Miss. --- From this green-field town in central Mississippi you could hear the sounds of joy cascading throughout the state. From the capital in nearby Jackson to Natchez along the Mississippi River down to Biloxi on the Gulf Coast everyone knew that Canton was ushering in a new industrial revolution in a state starved for work that ...
By: Ted Biederman
In cooperation with another General Motors partner the wholly owned GM subsidiary Saab Automotive AB plans to expand its product line further with the introduction of the new Saab 9-2. Saab will develop the 9-2 off a Subaru platform. Fuji Heavy Industries, the Subaru parent is 20 percent owned by General Motors. The new small Saab is expected ...
By: Ted Biederman
First they said it was a merger of equals. Then they said they would never mix the brands. Then they said the outcome of the marriage was inevitable. The plain truth is that only the outcome of the marriage was almost predictable yet inevitable.
Chrysler knows how to design vehicles, perhaps as well as any company in ...