Archive | June, 2010
Renault Wind Roadster video
Saab Sets Global, U.S. Targets; May Use BMW Parts For 92
What Can This Chronic Loss-Maker Do To Turn Red Into Black? A year ago, bankrupt General Motors was trying to dump its Swedish premium pretender Saab. By the end of 2009, it looked like curtains as a deal with exotic sports car maker Koenigsegg Group AB crashed and burned. But Dutch entrepreneur Victor Muller made […]
Investors Look Again At Peugeot And Like What They See
When Government Loan Repaid Will Varin Look East Again? PSA Peugeot-Citroen has been facing tough times, but is starting to impress investors.Although the company is considered to be too Eurocentric, too weak in Asia, and unable to profit from the expected upturn in the U.S. sales, investors reckon CEO Philippe Varin, now in the job for […]
Goldman Sachs Reckons Dire Europe Projections Overdone
Global Acceleration Set For 2012 With Promise Of Fat Margins But Others Battening Down The Hatches For Hard Times Most investors are circling the wagons to protect themselves from the gathering storm in European auto markets, but investment bank Goldman Sachs and forecaster J.D.Power beg to differ. Goldman analyst Stefan Burgstaller believes that most of […]
Battery Cars Need Subsidies, So Budget Slashing Ominous
More Authoritative Forecasts Point To Marginal Future For Battery-Only Renault-Nissan Hanging Out On 10% Forecast Limb I didn’t think I could come with another reason why battery-electric cars make no sense for the foreseeable future, but try this. The only way that unaffordable, impractical, battery-only cars will sell is because of huge government subsidies, and […]
Saab 9-5 video
Mazda 6 review
Reeks Of QualityTrouble Is, So Does The Formidable Competition New Mazda6 Has Been Improved With Tweaked Body, More Stuff **** out of 5 INVERNESS, Scotland Mazda is one of those brands which I find hard to place. It’s not mainstream but it’s not premium either. It’s not like Ford, Renault, Peugeot or Vauxhall/Opel – (blue-collar, sells on […]