Subaru plans to introduce its first-ever production hybrid vehicle for the U.S. market at the 2013 New York International Auto Show. The automaker said the new vehicle is called the Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid and is based on the XV Crosstrek crossover introduced for 2013.
American Honda picked incumbent RPA to remain its advertising agency of record for the Honda brand after a three-month review while giving Acura’s creative business to Boston-based Mullen. The decision announced Monday changes a 26-year relationship between RPA and Honda. RPA has carried the Honda brand since the agency was formed in 1986. It landed the account […]
Mitsubishi is determined to stay in America, will gradually expand its lineup and has learned a lesson or two from a cool U.S. market response to its small electric car, a company executive says. With fellow Japanese auto maker Suzuki closing down its U.S. sales unit, many industry observers have predictedMitsubishi will leave, too. They say that’s because the […]
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Conway Jeffress has settled into his new role as global director of automotive at freight forwarding and logistics provider, Jas Forwarding Worldwide. Jeffress was previously vice-president of automotive at Panalpina but said that because of its restructuring of industry verticals and executive responsibilities, the time was right to make a move.
Carmakers and logistics providers are doing their best to cope with the sixth straight year of decline in European sales by adjusting transport networks to find efficiency savings and to better serve growing markets abroad. However, their efforts in finding more efficient multimodal solutions could be better supported by changes to existing EU legislation according […]
Reducing barriers in the supply chain could provide gains of between 5-6% greater than those gained by removing tariffs, equal to a GDP boost of $2 trillion, with direct benefits for the automotive industry. Speaking at last week’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference in Germany, Sean Doherty, director of Supply Chain and Transport Industry at the […]
Kenworth debuted this morning at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., a new T680 model with a 52-inch sleeper. The T680 released last year at the show has a 76-inch sleeper and is designed for long-haul application. The 52-inch model unveiled today, however, is ideal for regional haul applications, Kenworth said, and is designed […]
Meritor WABCO says its new hydraulic anti-lock braking system with integrated ESCsmart stability control now goes a step beyond pervious stability control systems with “breakthrough†continuous learning software. According to John Morrison, president and general manager of WABCO, the new system uses electronic control units to continuously monitor driver behavior and vehicle dynamics to establish […]
