71-year old Mercury is being killed off. Why?
Oldsmobile cost General Motors about a billion dollars to close. How much will it cost Ford to close Mercury?
These are questions that need [...]

Gordon Chang, Forbes and John Batchelor of the John Batchelor radio show talk about Geely’s volvo.
Does it matter that Volvos will be made in China?
Mercedes-Benz is made in China and [...]

Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index, hosted the nationally syndicated John Batchelor radio show. We talked about the 2010 plug-in conference, the price of the Chevy Volt and the difference between [...]

Tony Pasowatz was the first employee to be hired by General Motors to work on the Chevy Volt, back in 2006.
Pasowatz talks about the pricing for the Volt, and the [...]

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General Motors just announced the Chevy Volt range extender price: $41,000 including destination and handling. The lease price $349 a month (with $2,500 down) is the same as [...]

Simon Constable of Dow Jones, and Margaret Hoover of Fox News host the John Batchelor radio show on Saturday night.
We talked about Toyota and their problems. Is this the end [...]

Toyota Rating Cut to Aa2 by Moody’s
Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles, and halted production and sales on different vehicles.
They have paid the government $16.4 million, the highest [...]

Is Toyota’s historic maximum $16 million fine levied by the US government precedent for the amount or admission of guilt with hundreds of other lawsuits looming?
General Motors announces they will [...]

80th International Motor Show, 2010 Geneva, Switzerland – Nick Reilly, President GM Europe, sat down with us at the 2010 Geneva motor show. Reilly talked mainly about Opel.
Opel, like [...]

80th International Motor Show, 2010 Geneva, Switzerland – Wayne Brannon, President Chevrolet Europe, 2010 Geneva motor show.
Brannon sat down with a group of journalists to talk about Chevy Europe [...]