This week our guest is Lonnie Miller the VP of Marketing and Industry Analysis for Polk. One of the questions we’ll be asking him: just how bad is the Detroit Three’s addiction to fleet sales? Of course, we’ll be exploring other hot subjects as well including John’s recent drives in the Kia Optima, Sorento and the 5.0 Mustang. Also, August sales… [[Continue reading]]

This week we invite Joe Serra on the AAH stage to talk dealerships. As a dealer principal, Joe has seen a lot in the past couple of years, and we’ll be asking him how business is and what kinds of cars are moving out of the lots these days. As usual, we’ll review some of the most interesting news of… [[Continue reading]]

Tonight “Autoline After Hours” goes retro from the site of the world’s largest one-day automotive event, The Woodward Dream Cruise. Well, actually the Cruise occurs three days later, but crowds and cars start populating the sidewalks and parking lots early as many of the 40,000 classics get Woodward warmed up for the big day. And that’s what the AAH crew… [[Continue reading]]

This week we invite Chris de Boer, head of R&D at Transonic Combustion to join us in the AAH studio. We’ll be asking him if his technology is really the big breakthrough we’ve been waiting for, and how he can get 30% better fuel economy just by changing the fuel injection. As always we’ll be getting into the big news… [[Continue reading]]

This week the gang is all back together and they invite Amy Marentic, the marketing manager for the newly-revealed Ford Explorer, onto the show. We’ll be asking Amy just how many people she thinks Ford can bring back to the SUV segment. Of course, the panel will also get into the news of the week like the EV number wars… [[Continue reading]]

This week we welcome Peter Hofbauer, a former diesel-engine designer at Volkswagen who’s now the Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of EcoMotors, the company that’s developing a revolutionary opposed-piston engine.  We’ll be talking all about the future of the ICE and what his company’s new powerplant can offer the auto industry as it shoots to deliver better fuel economy. … [[Continue reading]]

It was the natural wonder that was there when I fell in love with Richard Dreyfuss. My mother wouldn’t let me see Jaws (and with good reason- my father had convinced me that the government had released sharks into Conchas Lake when I was 8 years old leaving me terrified of swimming in the fresh water lake in Northern New Mexico). I was 10 years old When Close Encounters of… [[Continue reading]]