«Two weeks after @POTUS met
with auto execs... Ford plans «significant» investments in 3 plants,» she said in a tweet.
«It was the one show where Korean, Japanese and
German auto execs showed up at,» AutoPacific analyst Dave Sullivan said of Detroit.
Auto execs understand this phenomenon well, rattling off examples of vehicle features that the public initially resisted: seatbelts, airbags, antilock brakes, cruise control, even automatic transmission.
We know the where and the when, too: not on Mars or Krypton but right here on Mother Earth, possibly as soon as 2021 if you believe some
optimistic auto execs.
Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer was the most
recent auto exec to take a stand against the problematic practice of exotic car flipping, saying in a tweet July 4 that if the brand discovers customer plans to flip a Valkyrie allocation, it will withhold the car from that customer.
«Everyone will have 5 years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap», says the
former auto exec.
But design legend Henrik Fisker and
longtime auto exec - slash - fighter jet enthusiast Bob Lutz remain committed to ripping out that hybrid engine and shoving a supercharged Corvette engine inside, as well as bringing us the wildest - looking Viper ever.
According to Reuters, the Congressional committee is
calling auto execs up to testify to gain insight «on the appropriate role of government in promoting innovation including removing unnecessary hurdles, and their strategy to grow consumer adoption of this new technology,» the Committee announced, as reported by Reuters.
You'd think that about one in four people drove a hybrid, that tiny electric cars are more popular than SUVs, that heavy trucks were all but thing of the past, and that Justin Timberlake hung out with
German auto execs.
His father, after all, was
auto exec, while Mitt made his great fortune as a consultant and fund manager.
Mazda taps Americas chief as CEO; Audi skipping Detroit; Trump,
auto execs to meet; Profits drop at Subaru; Trimming up inexpensive cars; Nissan, Toyota aid nursing moms, premature babies.