At the 2012 Los Angeles auto show General Motors showed off their newest edition of infotainment, an Apple voice activation product called SIRI. Sarah LeBlanc, global program manager for General Motors MyLink is still enthusiastic about Apple, “when Apple made the announcement last summer to work with OEMs, General Motors jumped at the chance. We [...]
Los Angeles, CA - Mark Fields, Chief Operating Officer, Ford Motor Company, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, about how critical California is to Ford Motor Company. Ford brought the Flex out to what would seem to most mild sales. But to Ford, those sales were critical because they were in California, a territory [...]
John Humphrey, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Global Automotive Division, J.D. Power & Associates, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com before the 2012 Los Angeles auto show. Some of the statistics were startling, some we knew. Twelve percent of the nation's automotive sales are in California, making California critical to the United States [...]
Good Morning Warren and friends, We're back from Los Angeles auto show. Some of my favorites were a Ford Fiesta 3 cylinder 1-liter that many of us got 50 miles per gallon. Chevy Spark is bringing out an EV with SIRI. Volkswagen and Mazda are bring out diesels, VW in the Beetle Convertible and Mazda [...]