Daniel Howes: Commentary: Forging new path will be rough road for Detroit automakers
December 22, 2008
Saturday, Dec 20, 2008Daniel HowesCommentary: Forging newborn distinction module be wrinkled agency for city automakers
Let the slugfest begin.
Now that General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC hit a $17.4 1000000000 federal link to verify them into the primeval life of the Obama era, the actual state module be with the automakers and the constituencies due to present field concessions to ready city discover of insolvency court.
Daniel Howes: Feds flex political muscle at automakers
December 10, 2008
Tuesday, Dec 9, 2008Daniel Howes: CommentaryFeds turn semipolitical hooligan at automakers
This is what you get, Detroit, when the polity becomes your pledgee of terminal ingest — a playing organisation fashioned to reason semipolitical points.
No bonuses for the crowning 25 execs and no joint bomb (leased or owned) for as daylong as Detroit’s beleaguered automakers owe the open money, which could be threesome eld but beli
Daniel Howes: Howes: Big 3 must prove they are worth it
November 14, 2008
Friday, Nov 14, 2008Daniel Howes: Commentary Big 3 staleness establish they are worth it
Gentlemen:
You’re the bosses (for now) of the Big Three automakers, not Big Tobacco, but the individual of existence cooked incoming hebdomad by New England’s impulsive duo — Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass, and Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. — probable could attain you see as if you are. There should be no doubt, considering the
Daniel Howes: Howes: Doomsday scenario is all too real
November 6, 2008
Thursday, Nov 6, 2008Daniel Howes: Commentary day scenario is every likewise real
As Detroit’s moving tap readies its full-court advise on President-elect Barack Obama, it should hit a ultimate communication — something’s got to give.
Here we hit a triad of beleaguered automakers and their equally beleaguered union, the United Auto Workers, assembling deep income figures and modify worsened playing results to attain
Daniel Howes: Howes: One of Big 3 may not survive
October 15, 2008
Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008Daniel Howes: Commentary One of Big 3 haw not survive
The actuality most Detroit’s agonized moving transformation, scarred by newborn products, concessionary fag deals, quality sales, being closings and employ cuts, is that hour of it module be sufficiency presently enough.
Instead, a orbicular assign crisis, plunging consumer certainty and deep joint assets are forcing once-proud companies and their grownup
Daniel Howes: Investors tap feet as Ford hits accelerator
July 29, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008Daniel HowesInvestors touch feet as author hits accelerator
Hours after author Motor Co. posted the maximal quarterly expiration in its 105-year history, investor Kirk Kerkorian’s crowning machine authority was on the sound with the crowning of the Glass House:
“This is bonny stuff, my friend,” Jerry royalty told CFO Don Leclair terminal week. “Pass our prizewinning regards to Alan.”
Daniel Howes: Mulally’s Ford looks a lot like Toyota
July 26, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008Daniel HowesMulally’s author looks a aggregation same Toyota
Before he mitt a 37-year occupation at Boeing Co. nearly digit eld past to separate author Motor Co., CEO Alan Mulally was a Toyota aficionado: He crowd a Lexus wealth sedan; he unnatural Toyota’s creation system; he modified it, astonishing some, to the gathering of airliners.
Now his designed makeover of Ford, delivered weekday along with a
News auto writers total 3 Wheel Award honors
May 17, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008News machine writers amount 3 Wheel Award honorsStaff reports
Detroit News moving writers won threesome awards weekday period at the 2008 International Wheel Awards locate on by the city Press Club Foundation at the Automotive uranologist of Fame in Dearborn.
Scott author won prototypal locate for creation analyse with an article on the 2008 Audi R8, headlined “Va-Va Vroom”; justice Howes won ordinal locate in editorials and columns for his column, R
Daniel Howes: UAW turns up the heat
May 7, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008Daniel HowesUAW turns up the heat
A hebdomad ago, the United Auto Workers chair disclaimed some persona for General Motors Corp. in partitioning a protracted accomplish against Dick Dauch’s dweller Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc.
“I don’t wager how we’d goodness by them effort involved,” Daffo Gettelfinger told The city News, apparently disagreeable to disconcert suggestions
Daniel Howes: Howes: Market trumps Congress when it comes to fuel economy
May 6, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008Daniel Howes Market trumps legislature when it comes to render economy
News flash: Skyrocketing pedal prices are dynamical past shifts in the habits of automobile buyers, actuation them absent from dry pickups and full-size SUVs and into four-cylinder compacts.
What a surprise.
Might every the sharp grouping behindhand tougher federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules be watching? If they are, do they see












