Filed under: Japan, Nissan, Earnings/Financials
Carlos Ghosn has the honor of being the highest-paid foreign executive of any Japanese company. The Nissan CEO brought home a staggering $12 million for his efforts at the automaker last year alone, which marks a 10-percent increase over his take-home pay last year. For the sake of comparison, The Economic [...]
Filed under: Aftermarket, SUV, Jeep, Off-Road
Xplore Jeep Grand Cherokee – Click above for high-res image gallery
We saw the Xplore FJ Cruiser at SEMA, and then the company appeared in Moab to show off its all-new Xplore Wrangler. Now the adventurous minds at Xplore are ready to pull back the sheet off its latest creation – [...]
Filed under: Etc., Plants/Manufacturing
Combine rising raw materials costs, reduced production capacity and manufacturing bottlenecks, and the result for the world of tires is this: not enough hoops to satisfy automaker demand. According to Automotive News, even before The Great Recession hit, a Bridgestone tire executive said that plant closures alone killed 71 million units of [...]
Filed under: Convertible, Rolls-Royce, Luxury
Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coup
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Filed under: Classics, Truck, Auctions, Etc., Bentley, Misc. Auto Shows, Australia, Luxury
1956 Bentley S1 pickup – Click above for high-res images
Bentley and Bugatti may be under common ownership these days, but back in the day, they were bitter rivals. That rivalry lead one Ettore Bugatti to deride his English competition as “the world’s fastest lorries” [...]
