The PSA Group has announced its intention to re-enter the US market - again. It last announced plans to analyse whether the US market was good for their brands three years ago. Now the company has said that it is committed to do it - in five years time! The PSA Group holds the rights to the Citroen, DS, Peugeot, Vauxhall and Opel marques and all of them in some form have … [Read more...]
Update on the Sale of Opel to the PSA Group
About a year ago General Motors sold its European business of Opel and Vauxhall to the PSA Group who own the Peugeot and Citroen marques. It was an interesting deal because Peugeot and Citroen have had their financial difficulties in the recent past and the GM Europe business has had 16 years of losses and only managed to take 6% of the European market. For General Motors it … [Read more...]
Ernest Henry
Born: 2nd January 1885, Geneva. Died: 9th December 1950, Paris. Ernest Henry was a Swiss engineer and the man who made a big leap with internal combustion engine technology - he developed the first double overhead cam engine! He studied engineering in Geneva before working on marine engines for a company that made a variety of products including bicycles, … [Read more...]
Hillman
William Hillman was first known as a designer of the velocipede, a forerunner to the bicycle and he had been involved with a group of entrepreneurs who were importing them from France. He was born in 1849 and worked for the Coventry Machinist Company, a company that made small machines. In the mid 19th century, Coventry in England was the centre for sewing machine … [Read more...]
Peugeot Slows Down Development of “Hybrid Air” Technology
I read about this a few weeks ago. Like many manufacturers, Peugeot inside the PSA Group has a "skunk" works looking at different types of engines and propulsion systems. One of their ideas was to take a concept widely used in commercial vehicles and add it to their passenger vehicles to improve fuel consumption - the age old desire to extract more out of every gallon or litre … [Read more...]