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Autoline After Hours with John McElroy: Demise of Saturn Edition

On this week's Autoline After Hours, John McElroy, Peter "Autoextremist" DeLorenzo and BusinessWeek's David Welch are joined by Erich Merkle, President of Autoconomy, to discuss the week that was in the world of automobiles. We suspect a large part of the discussion will center on the imminent demise of Saturn after Penske pulled out of its deal with General Motors to take over the ailing brand and its considerable dealer network. Make the jump to get in on the insider conversation, and be sure to posit your own thoughts in the chat window ... Read more →

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Why Car Names Really Matter What's in a name? Does it really matter what you call a car, or will a car sell well as long as it's well designed? As an enthusiast, I always felt that the name of a ...

Autoline Detroit LIVE with special guest Tom Stephens, GM VC of Global Product Development John Neff

Join John McElroy and his journalist colleagues for an all-new LIVE webcast discussion with Tom Stephens, GM Vice Chairman of Global Product Development. First, you'll get to see a LIVE taping of ...

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TOYOTA'S HYBRIDS COULD BE BANNED FROM THE AMERICAN MARKET In a shocking development Toyota faces a lawsuit filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission that seeks to ban the import of all ...

Autoline After Hours with John McElroy, Peter DeLorenzo, David Welch and David E. Davis, Jr. Chris Paukert

In this week's episode of Autoline After Hours, John McElroy, Peter "The Autoextremist" DeLorenzo, and David Welch of BusinessWeek are joined by the dean of automotive journalism, David E. Davis, ...

Autoline After Hours with John McElroy, Jason Vines, and Peter DeLorenzo 4 months ago on Autoblog

In this week's episode of Autoline After Hours, John McElroy, newly minted Christian publishing mogul Jason Vines and Peter "The Autoextremist" DeLorenzo gather for another unusually frank discussion about the motoring industry's ups and downs. You can even join in by submitting questions to the ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 6 months ago on Autoblog

PLENTY OF LIFE LEFT IN THE PISTON ENGINE There are all kinds of ways to boost the fuel efficiency of a vehicle. Hybrids are becoming more and more popular. Clean diesels seemed poised to make major inroads in the market. And even though they're a ways down the road, hydrogen fuel cells sure look ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 7 months ago on Autoblog

They're After Your Freedom You've undoubtedly read the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's report and seen the videos it released when the organization pitted sub-compacts against mid-size sedans (if not, one is posted below the fold). They really went after the safety of small cars, trying to ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 7 months ago on Autoblog

IT'S A FUEL PROBLEM, NOT A FUEL ECONOMY PROBLEM Every single day, the United States ships $600,000,000 out of the country. That's what it costs us to pay for the oil we buy from other countries at $50 a barrel. It is the single biggest cause of our massive trade deficit. The U.S. uses roughly 20 ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 8 months ago on Autoblog

BREAKTHROUGH AUDIO SYSTEM, ALL THANKS TO SOFTWARE I just experienced one of the most amazing sound systems that that I ever heard in a car. What makes it so amazing is that it doesn't use a power booster, or equalizer, or better speakers, or anything like that. Instead, it's all done with ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy - 2010 Chevy Camaro Edition! 8 months ago on Autoblog

2010 CHEVY CAMARO: DRIVING IMPRESSIONS I'm sure there are a lot of Autobloggers out there who know the specifications of the new Camaro far better than I do. But numbers on paper don't mean much until you experience them through the seat of your pants. So here are my driving impressions of the new ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 8 months ago on Autoblog

BIG THREE SITTING ON $10 BILLION GOLDMINE There's no question that the Detroit-based auto industry needs a lot of help. There's a 100-year history of how it got into the problems it's in, and some of those problems are beyond management's control. But there is one area where General Motors, Ford ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 8 months ago on Autoblog

THE AMAZINGLY STUPID DETROIT CITY COUNCIL Nobody reading this blog needs to be told how much trouble Detroit is in. Whether it's the Detroit Three, the city of Detroit, or the greater Detroit area, the story's the same: we're in trouble! One of the very few events that provides positive media ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 9 months ago on Autoblog

HYBRID BATTERIES SURPASS ALL EXPECTATIONS When Toyota's Prius first hit Japanese showrooms in 1997, I was highly skeptical that hybrids would catch on. Not only was the technology really expensive, I thought the nickel-metal hydride batteries would prove to be the Achilles Heel in the system. ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 11 months ago on Autoblog

FORD REPORT: DIESEL VS. HCCI VS. STRATIFIED CHARGE To hear Ford's CTO tell it, all these painful layoffs and budget cuts going on at the company can actually be beneficial. "It gets you really focused on what's really necessary," says Gerhard Schmidt, the Chief Technology Officer at Ford. Ford now ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

GM IS ON ITS LAST LEGS There is only one number that really matters in today's financial report from General Motors: how much cash it has in the kitty. And the answer is, not enough. GM is now burning through its cash reserves at a rate that will run short before Christmas. Every month GM spends ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

WHAT IF GM COLLAPSES? Anyone watching the auto industry these days is acutely aware that General Motors is hurtling towards disaster. It's burning through cash reserves at a rate that will put it in Chapter 11 sometime next year, no matter how much management says "that's not an option." It's ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

GM-CHRYSLER, WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? The headlines say General Motors is feverishly putting a plan together to take over Chrysler. From my standpoint, only two theories can explain why this is happening. Either the billionaire boys from Cerberus have a master plan to revamp the American auto ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

I'M LOSING MY BET ON DIESELS A few years back I made a bet with a former Director of Engineering at General Motors. I bet him five bucks that Americans would fall in love with modern diesel engines and would want them in their cars. Specifically, I predicted that diesel sales in passenger cars ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

THE DOWN SIDE TO LITHIUM BATTERIES Uh-oh. In the pell-mell race to develop lithium-ion batteries for plug-ins, EV's and hybrids, has any automaker taken a hard look at where all that lithium is going to come from? Guess what? Not only are global lithium supplies pretty tight, prices are about to ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

SIX QUARTERS TO DOOMSDAY 2010 is shaping up to be a pivotal year in the American auto industry. From a product standpoint there will be a lot of interesting hardware in showrooms, including range-extending EVs, plug-in hybrids, clean diesels, pure electrics, and flex-fuel vehicles running on ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

TELL THE FEDS TO FREEZE THE REGS! Every day Chrysler LLC builds Euro-spec versions of the Chrysler 300 at its assembly plant in Canada, bolts a V6 diesel engine into most of them, and ships them off to Europe. That diesel 300 gets better fuel economy, over 30 mpg, than all the other vehicles in ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

THE AMAZING SHRINKING CAR MARKET As car sales continue to spiral downward, some product planners in the industry are beginning to ask the unthinkable: is the American car market going to shrink permanently? They are starting to consider the possibility that the days of selling 17 million new ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

HEY GM, BRING BACK THE EV1 A decade ago General Motors put one of the coolest cars of all time on the road, the EV1. While there were a number of hard-core EV enthusiasts who became passionately committed to the car, it never caught on with the masses. But that was then and this is now. GM should ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

HOW MANY BRANDS ARE TOO MANY? With gas prices soaring and SUV sales sinking, General Motors just put its HUMMER brand under "strategic review." That's generally the term used when a company is getting ready to dump a brand. And that begs the question, how many brands does a car company really need? ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

FORD'S AMBITIOUS MAKE-OVER It could be the most dramatic retooling effort since the early days of World War II, when Detroit earned its nick name as the Arsenal of Democracy. Word leaked out yesterday that Ford is calling its plant managers and top union leaders to the company's headquarters in ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

FIRST-HAND LOOK AT FORD'S ECO-BOOST TECHNOLOGY I just spent a day at Ford's proving grounds driving a number of vehicles that use Eco-boost technology, which is the centerpiece of the company's strategy to improve fuel economy. I wish I could tell you more about my driving impressions of these ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

WHY USE BATTERIES IF FLYWHEELS WILL DO? Formula One could be on to something big. Next year all teams will be allowed to capture the energy that their cars produce under braking, and then re-use that energy at opportune moments, like passing on a straight. It's really a hybrid system, but they don't ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy: Driving the Dodge Challenger SRT-8 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click for more Dodge Challenger SRT-8 pics from John McElroy's drive A couple of weeks back I wrote a bit about the new Dodge Challenger SRT-8. But to honor the embargo that the Public Relations people put on driving impressions, I had to hold the best stuff until now. And man, was it worth the ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

SAE WRAP-UP This is what we call SAE week in Detroit. It's when automotive engineers from all over the world get together here to share their ideas on the burning engineering issues of the day. And there's no question that boosting fuel economy and reducing CO2 topped the agenda. I can't pretend to ...






Autoblog Podcast #153: With Phil Berg

Phil Berg puts his reputation on the line and hangs with the podcast crew.

 
 

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