Lindsay Chappell
Automotive News
Zirconia, NC, United States
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Outside the norm: ZF's external airbag predicts crash
When ZF demonstrated its new external airbag in Germany, it was more than a variation on a familiar theme. The new game is all about predictive sensing. → Read More
Suppliers turn to matchmaking events
Auto parts suppliers in Tennessee mingled and table hopped from customer to customer here last week in a bid to 'speed date' their way to new business contracts. → Read More
Why are some Nissan dealers so unhappy?
As retailers gathered for the 2016 National Automobile Dealers Association convention, audiences seemed to nod in agreement at criticism that Nissan has used its elbows in its race to become America's No. 2 import automaker. → Read More
Millennials drive industry to rethink parts
A rear-seat display screen shown at the SAE World Congress in Detroit last week illustrates the auto industry's challenge in appealing to millennials -- and the need to develop components that resonate with young, tech-savvy customers. → Read More
With free services, 'business is exploding'
Priority Auto Group CEO Dennis Ellmer challenged his managers to give customers free maintenance for life, and the growth never stopped. → Read More
Sealing giant Freudenberg ready for non-combustion
Freudenberg-NOK, with its global fortunes built on sealing internal combustion engines to keep them leak-free, isn't blinking at a future of battery-powered electric vehicles. → Read More
Toyota gets a glimpse at Clemson students' vision of future mobility
Toyota planners are scrutinizing a concept for an urban youth vehicle created for them by Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research vehicle development program. → Read More
Lightweighting stars at PACE Awards
New technologies in the race for lighter-weight vehicles dominated the 2016 Automotive News PACE Awards on Monday night. The annual awards for outstanding supplier innovations singled out seven new concepts that are helping automakers trim weight. → Read More
There's big money in the recall crisis
Companies are capitalizing on recall mania. A number of companies are designing products and services to make money on recalls at the dealership level. → Read More
Sales-effectiveness ratings can kill a franchise
Dealers who are struggling with the sales effectiveness metric from automakers say it can be a cold, inflexible standard -- one that can cost them a franchise. → Read More
Nissan counts on commercial vehicles
Fred Diaz, former sales and marketing chief for Nissan North America, is now tasked with cranking up Nissan's commercial vehicle sales in the U.S., Canada and Mexico - a key part of Nissan's goal of increasing market share. → Read More
Nissan softens some policies on dealer incentives
Nissan will take further steps to smooth its aggressive sales-incentive program this month at the request of its dealers. Nissan North America Chairman Jose Munoz told dealers at the brand's make meeting Friday that its national sales growth plan will be revised for the second time in a year. → Read More
Nissan hits all-time sales record in March
Nissan North America posted the biggest sales month ever in March, selling 163,559 cars and trucks, despite tight inventories of the Nissan brand’s two top-selling models. → Read More
New Nissan sales chief shifts ad approach
Nissan's new sales and marketing boss orders up a new approach to U.S. advertising. → Read More
Nissan to launch vehicles earlier in the model year
Nissan, responding to dealer requests, plans to redraw production schedules to get 2017 vehicles into showrooms earlier, says Jose Munoz, chairman of Nissan North America. The significantly restyled 2016 Altima and 2016 Sentra, for example, are only now reaching U.S. showrooms in substantial volume. → Read More
Nissan promotes North American managers on several fronts
Nissan is giving several of its key managers in the U.S., Mexico and Canada more authority as it enters the final 12-month stretch of its global Power 88 business plan to increase profits and grow market share. → Read More
Nissan readies the Titan's volume model
Nissan today unveiled the volume portion of its plan to take a bigger share of the burgeoning U.S. pickup segment, a half-ton version of its redesigned full-size 2017 Titan. → Read More
Nissan tries tiny mobility concept on New York
Nissan's Future Lab wants to determine whether consumers in urban markets will use the ultra-compact New Mobility Concept, from Renault. → Read More
Don't fear the tech giants, Ghosn says
Google, Apple and other super-rich tech companies should not be feared as auto industry disrupters, Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says. They should be embraced. → Read More
Nissan hushes the beast in GT-R
Nissan is giving the GT-R supercar the biggest design and engineering overhaul since its U.S. debut in 2008, making it simultaneously more threatening and more refined. → Read More