Brian Douglas has driven everything with wheels during his career in the automotive technical, marketing, and journalism professions. He is currently a contributing expert for KGO Radio, WHEELS editor for the San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Baltimore Examiner newspapers, automotive features writer for the Minneapolis/St. Paul Times Tribune, and automotive editor for Gentry and Ranch & Coast magazines.
Got $1.75 million to spend? The Aston Martin One-77 just unveiled in Geneva is a real bargain.
What if the president hired people like Jay Leno to oversee reforming Detroit instead of beltway bureaucrats?
Italian car company Fiat is in line to benefit from the taxpayer bailout of Chrysler.
Fuel economy mandates to save gas? That's like fighting obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make only slender sizes.
Eight-cylinder luxury cars are out; extended-range plug-ins and gas-sipping hybrids are in.
Detroit's automakers have many problems, but poor quality and ignoring consumers are not among them.