Center for Automotive Research

At this year’s CAR MBS 2022, held in August in Traverse City, Mich., most sessions pivoted around, or intersected with, the automotive industry’s shift to vehicle electrification. This is a dynamic transition period. Automakers and other insiders weighed in on the EV evolution’s impact on the inherent revolving roles and musical chairs.

The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) has named Alan Amici as president/CEO following the retirement of CEO Carla Bailo after five years of leading the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based nonprofit.

The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) has appointed three new members to its board of directors and selected a new board chair. Dr. James Jacobs, president emeritus of Macomb Community College, has been appointed board chair. He has been a CAR board member since 2010 and assumes the chair role...

The Center for Automotive Research, Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced the resignation of Lisa Hart, senior vice president and corporate secretary/treasurer on the board, and board member Mitch Bainwol, as well as the retirement of Neil De Koker, board chair, at the end of September 2020. Hart has...

2012 has the markings of a transitional year for the automotive industry. If the sales and efficiency gains achieved by the industry, which began in 2009, can be sustained, there is ample reason to believe that salad days lie ahead of automakers, suppliers, and dealers alike.

Selling Chrysler only nine years after the merger is a de facto admission that it was a mistake. While some analysts publicly wondered if Daimler would not eventually sell Chrysler, the suddenness of the declaration was unexpected.