Sentences with phrase «auto executives»

Why work for a furniture guy with no previous experience in the auto industry when you can work for an experienced auto executive who understands the auto industry.

Indeed, auto executives at every launch last week talked about how prices would be kept as lean as possible on all new models because of consumer resistance.

Beyond the baby boomers, safety is increasingly a selling point, particularly among more affluent car buyers, analysts and auto executives said.

Like most auto executives, he's quick to point out that customers will have the choice to opt in to services that require sharing information, such as their location or driving habits.

Some American auto executives remain optimistic in the face of the latest competition.

This annual confab is a chance for dealers to speak with auto executives in person, especially at closed - door «franchise» meetings where goals, strategies and conflicts are discussed.

DORTMUND, Germany (Reuters)- Chancellor Angela Merkel kicked off her re-election campaign on Saturday with a stinging attack on German auto executives, pressing them to innovate to secure jobs, and win back trust lost by a diesel emissions scandal.

He also notes, as do many auto executives, that higher gas taxes would go a long way toward ensuring there's a market for the efficient cars the government is ordering carmakers to build.

But today, dealers, as well as auto executives who will attend the big pow - wow at the Moscone Center, are feeling much better.

They want to feel that engine, touch that technology,» said Houghton, who earlier this year gave a presentation on the history of sportiness in automobiles at a recent convention of auto executives in Detroit.

Expensive hires may also have sucked away chunks of Fisker's funding: Sources I've talked to say that Fisker filled the upper levels of the company with seasoned auto executives from Detroit.

Sources claim the move is part of a broader push by Detroit auto executives to pad profitability.

But that fateful appearance by the Big Three auto executives turned out to be a crucial wake - up call — a sign that Flying Colours was over-exposed to one geographical market, however large.

In Detroit where auto executives marvel at Tesla's stock price rise despite its losses and production problems, quiet cheers over the company's troubles were almost a certainty.

Auto executives emphasize that data - crunching will allow them to build a better driving experience — enabling cars to predict flat tires, find a parking space or charging station, or alert city managers to dangerous intersections where there are frequent accidents.

Global auto executives at the Detroit auto show are highlighting their investments in the United States, mindful of President - elect Donald Trump's attacks on automakers for building vehicles in Mexico.

Zimmer has had plenty of meetings with auto executives over the years, but it was strange to explain his vision of the future and have one respond with «I agree,» he says.

His fanaticism to quickly toss off the debt albatross has its roots in a relatively modest upbringing, despite the fact that his father is a successful auto executive.

Bob Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors, is a lifelong auto executive, so when he wrote over the weekend that «we are approaching the end of the automotive era,» people paid attention.

But they are not auto executives.

Canadian auto executive Keith Henry was enjoying a vacation in Florida this week when Donald Trump's Twitter feed caught his immediate attention.

Keaton plays Jack Butler, a happily married auto executive and father of three in suburban Detroit.

Remnants remain of what was once a city of neighborhoods, such as the historic Boston Edison district of old auto executive homes.

One auto executive working on fuel economy strategy told AN that «essentially no notice was given,» and that business is ordinarily conducted based on a known playing field, and «To have it change suddenly without notice and without the ability to respond is really troubling.

What auto executive contemplated the prototype of this plastic pile, grinned, and pronounced, «I think we're done here!»

Auto executives often lament that young people just don't get excited about cars these days.

Its proportions alone gave other auto executives and engineers varicose veins — but at the car's estimated $ 80,000 base price, it would have been the Karma's salespeople who would have been truly overwhelmed.

International auto executives say they are in no rush to shake up their joint ventures with Chinese carmakers, despite Beijing's promise to loosen limitations on foreign investment.

When Toyota rolled out its Lexus brand 15 years ago, rival auto executives snickered at the idea of a Japanese automaker hitting it big in the tough U.S. luxury - car market.

It could be the Overeaters Anonymous group where she ran into John DeLorean, the disgraced auto executive who had beaten government drug trafficking charges and was at OA because he'd «started eating lots of junk food during his trial» and needed to find «a self - empowering Christian way to lose weight.»

The message on the lips of every major auto executive at the LA Auto Show this year essentially seemed to boil down to: «Trust us, we're green.»

President Trump pressed automakers to build more vehicles in America and launched a fresh attack on NAFTA, which has benefited the companies, while auto executives urged him to work with California to keep nationwide vehicle emissions standards.

The new hire is Marco Mattiacci, an award - winning auto executive who led Ferrari North America and Ferrari Asia Pacific between 2006 and 2014, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Just a few years ago, parent company Hyundai and its sister, Kia, picked up a bunch of highly - esteemed and very experienced German auto executives to run the show.

Many auto executives and Wall Street analysts expect auto sales to weaken slightly this year compared with 1997 sales.

Big Three auto executives are revved up about their new products and the narrowing gap with the Japanese in quality; however, few think 1991 will be a strong year for the industry.

This, it seemed, was a return to normalcy in the Motor City, where auto executives are royalty.

As general manager of GE Plastics, Nickel tries to coax auto executives to use more plastic parts.

CHIBA, Japan (Reuters)- The debate over the best medium - term solution for cleaner cars looks set to lengthen as auto executives in Japan for the Tokyo Motor Show this week discussed more, not fewer, options for weaning cars off oil.

But as Reuters reported, the project is part of a 2015 negotiation with the United Auto Workers union — not a direct result of Trump's recent meeting with auto executives.

That challenge is not lost on Big Auto executives.

If the Dems pick a candidate that can pick up the votes of the auto executives that live in the Northern parts of this District, the Dems will win this seat.

Among the auto executives who joined him in a show of industry - wide backing for the regulations, there were a few faces missing.

If an auto executive loses his job, he takes his severance and finds another job.

Many auto executives are worried, but the people at Hyundai, at least for the moment, are not among them.