Category Archives: people

Honda Title Sponsor of Formula One Japanese Grand Prix

Posted on 31 August 2018 by Ken Zino

“I want to have a venue for motor racing. Automobiles cannot be improved if they are not put through their paces on the racing circuit,” said founder and president Soichiro Honda. This was late in 1959 during a meeting to propose the construction of a welfare facility for the Suzuka Factory. It led to the birth of Japan’s first full-scale road racing circuit Continue reading →

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Ford Reorganizes Again Under Product Line Management Flag

Posted on 28 August 2018 by Ken Zino

Ford Motor is traveling well-worn pothole ridden roads. The move comes as Ford stock continue to languish below $10 a share of common as Wall Street remains skeptical of it future earnings potential. Continue reading →

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Ford Retirements Set Off String of Exec Changes

Posted on 27 August 2018 by Ken Zino

Motor Company says the retirement of two global leaders. Bruce Hettle and Steve Biegun will result in management shuffles in Labor and Government Affairs. Continue reading →

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Peter Sellers DB4GT at Hampton Concours of Elegance

Posted on 20 August 2018 by Ken Zino

A comedy crime caper revolving around a gang of criminals who impersonate policeman, the DB4GT provided a getaway vehicle for the thieves. The DB4GT led a high-speed chase through Uxbridge Moor, followed by a Wolseley 6/90 police car. Post-filming, Peter Sellers himself took ownership of the car. Continue reading →

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Rain Shortens Fourth Annual Roadkill Nights – Street-legal Drag Racing on Woodward Avenue

Posted on 15 August 2018 by Ken Zino

A total of 128 street-legal cars were on a specially prepped 1/8-mile drag strip on Woodward Avenue between Rapid Street and South Boulevard to compete in high-powered drag racing for cash prizes. Heavy rains ended the races early, so 16 total finalists split $20,000 in cash prizes. Continue reading →

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Global Warming Floods Big Population Coastline Counties

Posted on 7 August 2018 by Ken Zino

“With the exception of 2005 to 2006, a year marked by an intense hurricane season that included three of the costliest hurricanes on record (Katrina, Rita and Wilma), the population in Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties grew every year from 2000 to 2016,” says Darryl T. Cohen is a geographer in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Division. Continue reading →

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Repetitive Motion Injuries Cut by Exoskeletal Technology

Posted on 7 August 2018 by Ken Zino

Since 2005, Ford says incidents in global facilities that resulted in lost time fell 75%. The 2018 incident rate was one of the lowest on record. Ford is introducing wearable technology globally after a successful trial in two U.S. plants. Continue reading →

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Sergio Marchionne Dead at 66

Posted on 25 July 2018 by Ken Zino

An intense, yet approachable CEO, smitten with black sweaters and Apple products, Marchionne was capable of referring to business theories – some of them wryly his own about, say, the collective madness of the industry over autonomous and electric cars during auto show executive braggadocio, with references to linguistic philosophy, current politics and history during a single press conference. Continue reading →

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Gravely Ill Sergio Marchionne out at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Trucker Mike Manley now CEO

Posted on 23 July 2018 by Ken Zino

“In the meantime, to provide for his full authority and operational continuity for the company, the Board has with immediate effect granted Mr. Manley all the powers of CEO. He will also assume responsibility for the NAFTA region. Continue reading →

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Baseball All Stars – Alex Bregnan and Chevrolet

Posted on 18 July 2018 by Ken Zino

With one batsman faced, it was off to the showers for Jimenez. This portends what will happen to the Tigers this post-season – if they get there – going down with one team faced. Continue reading →

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Rising Income Inequality Differs in Racial, Ethnic Groups

Posted on 16 July 2018 by Ken Zino

Asians overall are the highest-earning racial and ethnic group in the U.S., but it is not a status shared by all Asians. Continue reading →

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First Time US Resettles Fewer Refugees Than Rest of World

Posted on 7 July 2018 by AutoCrat

This represents the first time since the adoption of the 1980 U.S. Refugee Act that the U.S. resettled fewer refugees than the rest of the world. The U.S. has historically led the world in refugee resettlement. Since 1980, the U.S. has taken in 3 million of the more than 4 million refugees resettled worldwide. Continue reading →

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Connectivity is Good? Connectivity is Bad? Both? Time to Reflect, Emotions Perpetuate and Increase Divisiveness

Posted on 5 July 2018 by Ken Zino

Many experts praise the benefits of connectivity and easy access to knowledge in their everyday experiences. However, some rue digital life’s health-threatening qualities, loss of privacy and diminishing trust. Sound familiar? Continue reading →

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Fourth of July 2018 – a Divided Nation That’s Lost Its Way

Posted on 4 July 2018 by Ken Zino

On our latest Fourth of July, we unfortunately, find some of our beliefs as outlined in the U.S. Constitution once again under attack by tyrants from the Royalty of Riches that makes its own laws in defiance of our binding pledge to “We the people.” Continue reading →

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Bosch Claims Diesel Record Readings of 13 mg NOx per kilometer. Too Little, Too Late to Clean Dirty Diesel Image?

Posted on 25 June 2018 by Ken Zino

The Volkswagen dieselgate scandal exposed clearly fraudulent conduct. VW, one of the world’s largest automotive groups, deliberately lied about diesel emissions and cheated during testing by using control software that resulted in dirtier diesel exhaust that was far dirtier in real driving than in the lab on a dynamometer. Continue reading →

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