Spyker Cars is enjoying the perks of owning SAAB and their dealer network as they have just announced that they will be using it to sell their own products as well. Spyker C8 Aileron That might make for an interesting day out if you tell your wife you’re going to buy a sensible Swedish creation [...]

Today, Chrysler and Fiat announced that the Chrysler Group, LLC and Fiat have finalized their Global Strategic Alliance. According to the press release on the Chrysler Media website, this alliance facilitates the forming of “a ‘new’ Chrysler that has the resources, technology and worldwide distribution network required to compete effectively on a global scale.” It [...]

General Motors says Edward E. Whitacre, Jr., will be its new chairman. The former AT&T chief and ExxonMobil board member will lead newly downsized automaker as it seeks a way out of the government fold when the company is launched later this summer, a GM press release says. Interim chairman Kent Kresa will give up [...]

EEStor is a company purportedly on the cusp of commercializing a potentially disruptive technology. EEStor president, former hard drive scientist Dick Weir has been trying to develop something called the EESU or electric energy storage unit. The device is a solid-state battery-like material that stores energy in a composition-modified alumina-coated barium titanate compound that is [...]

There’s no question that there have been better summers to be the chief executive officer of General Motors. Bankruptcy hearings, plant closings, job cuts and a near certain pay cut will no doubt put a damper on Fritz Henderson’s backyard barbecues. The CEO job is so undesirable that it cracked Late Show host David Letterman’s [...]