If you throw a party and all of your invited guests show up but your caterer bails, who should you blame when some of those guests post about it on Facebook? The guests? Or the no-show caterer? For David Sloan, president of the Chicago Automotive…

The author is a senior analyst on the Transportation Efficiencies team at Navigant Research

In a market where SUVs are moving into customer hands at breakneck speeds while cars languish, you might think that a company like Ford would be refreshing its utilities on a regular basis. While true for some of its higher volume utilities, the two…

Two years ago at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Acura rolled out the Precision Concept, a sleek four-door coupe that introduced the brand’s new design direction. As much as the enthusiasts among us might have preferred Acura…

Living here in southeast Michigan, seeing as yet unreleased cars on the road is fairly commonplace. Heavily camouflaged machines regularly traverse the region’s freeways as they move between technical centers, proving grounds and supplier facilities.…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is one of the more polarizing figures in modern business. There is no doubt that he has accomplished far more than most people would have thought possible with his companies and he deserves plenty of respect for his sheer tenacity…

Ride-hailing pioneer Uber is expanding its approach to eventually eliminating the human driver component from its platform. A new deal announced this week will eventually add automated Mercedes-Benz vehicles to the Uber platform. This will mark the…

Street addresses are a fundamentally problematic means of trying to input a destination into a navigation system. In the best of situations, they aren’t particularly precise and in the worst of cases, they may not be defined at all. As we move into a…

In the days since the announcement that Ford Motor Company had acquired the long-abandoned Michigan Central Station in Detroit, executive chairman Bill Ford has given numerous interviews about his hopes to spur the city’s rebirth around this icon of…

From a product perspective, the Kia press conference that kicked off the 2016 Chicago Auto Show today was all about electrification with the global debut of the production Niro hybrid crossover and the launch of hybrid and plug-in hybrid variants of…