Author: Automotive News Feed

2018 Automotive News All Star Joe Jacuzzi, executive director of brand communications for General Motors, moved into the top spot in charge of PR for all four of GM’s North American brands this year.

Carvana CEO Ernie Garcia, a 2018 Automotive News All Star, has overseen the company known for its oversized vehicle vending machines, with rapid growth in the last year in revenue and sales.

Bill Ford has been attempting for years to position his family company to succeed in an uncertain future. His latest bet to secure his legacy involves a relic of Detroit’s past.

Black Friday hasn’t just taken over Thanksgiving weekend: Big sales run all month, especially in automakers’ and dealers’ marketing efforts.

Gill Pratt has become a distinctive voice on both safety issues and the potential for autonomous drive technology to augment human drivers, rather than just replace them.

2018 Automotive News All Star Mathew Vachaparampil, president of CareSoft Global, leads a company offering automakers millions of dollars in savings through its scan technology.

As she approaches the five-year mark, Mary Barra is calling on her crisis-management skills and lessons again to help drive the company and its work force of 180,000-plus through its next transformation and further away from the shadows of “old” GM.

Rivian Automotive is set to debut two vehicles, an SUV and a pickup, this week at AutoMobility LA and teased at least one of them in a video on its YouTube channel.

The race among carmakers to put fully autonomous vehicles on the road is poised to drive a competition of a different kind, as Hollywood revs up to jump deeper into the world of in-vehicle entertainment.

A consummate leader versed in manufacturing, engineering and sales, John Krafcik has brought Waymo from an experimental engineering program to one of the first real-world deployments of autonomous ride sharing.