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Bail-outs and bio-fuels, product redundancy and the promise of natural gas: the American automobile industry stands at the brink of a revolution almost as complete and cataclysmic as Henry Ford’s introduction of the modern assembly line.

Brand new on the web and factory-equipped with a new point of view, Automotive Industry News looks forward to reporting all the details about the American and international auto industries’ reinvention of themselves to meet the demand of a post-modern world and a post-modern economy.

Stopping Dependance On Oil

And the 21st century automotive revolution seems long overdue, because Henry’s century-old break-through was the last significant American automotive advance anyone can recall. All the rest has been about bigger is better and faster is nicer…until we began running out of oil and the bottom fell out of the domestic market.

America has lived and coped with an ever-deepening “oil crisis” for nearly five decades, yet neither our vehicles nor our habits have changed very much until we felt the vice-grips really tightening on our wallets. Car makers and car buyers believed they could put new and advanced technology on-hold, in the folder called “cars of the future,” until the national average for a gallon of gas hit $4.00. Then, all of sudden, we began understanding the Europeans’ passion for tiny cars with 1600cc engines and about a gazillion miles to the gallon.

Now, we look forward to seeing and reporting on all those “cars of the future” as they quickly become the great new products of today.

At Automotive Industry News, we stay abreast of all that’s happening today and all that shows great promise for tomorrow. We still love our classic cars, and we still
enjoy an occasional flex of the old v-8 muscles, but we eagerly anticipate great discoveries and radical alterations. We like Smart Cars as much as we like Super Sports. And we like bio-fuels as much as we like nitro-octanes.

Lexus SUV

We report all the industry news from a variety of perspectives, covering family-friendly vehicles available now and gas-stingy prototypes we hope soon will become available. We look at the after-market, the emerging market, and the stock market. And we keep wondering why Ford clings to its Mercury line and why GM builds three different cross-over vehicles under three different brand names when they’re all the same car with different accessories?

What about hydrogen fuel cells, the promise of a car that might run on water, and T. Boone Pickens’s suggestion that we immediately should convert all American cars to natural gas, our own most plentiful fuel resource? Meanwhile, what is the smart, sassy, stylish carpool mom going to drive back to school in September? We’re not shy about expressing our likes and dislikes, but we remain practical and prudent and, for the most part, we make our choices reasonably and objectively. After all, we share the roads and gas pumps with all of America.

We examine all of the automotive industry news.  Daily.  So, keep checking back.