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Toyoga Goseo will build a plant in a São Paulo suburb for the production of rubber and plastic automotive components to meet growth in the Brazilian auto market.
Cadillac are including new semi-autonomous safety technologies on three 2013 models: the new ATS sport sedan; new XTS sedan, and revamped SRX crossover are
Continental and BMW have signed an agreement to jointly develop an electronic co-pilot for highly-automated driving on European freeways
Toyota’s annual awards recognise suppliers whose innovations allow Toyota vehicles to be equipped with the very latest technologies. Continental were awarded in
Consumer Reports, a magazine very influential amongst the American auto-buying public, released the results of their 2013 auto study last week, during an event in
Automotive sales in China jumped 46% year on year to more than 2 million units in January 2013. The passenger car market grew 48% to 1, 7 million units in the month,
Gilles Boussac is the new president of Changan PSA Automobile Co., a 50-50 joint venture between PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and China’s Changan Automobile Co.
Qoros will build their cars in China, and Chery is a significant investor in the project. They are a venture brand, rather than a Chinese domestic nameplate. And although
Paul-Henri Matha is a graduated Engineer from Ecole Des Mines, Saint Etienne, France. He has been with Renault for 13 years, first as lighting project leader on the C-Range vehicles (Mégane Scenic), then as chief executive in charge of lighting pre-development and innovation in Guyancourt, Renault’s technical seat in France.
He is now responsible for lighting, seats, safety, and instruments at Dacia in Bucharest, Romania. He is also a member of the VISION congress scientific and organisation committees.
We asked him four questions:
DVN: Was it easy for you, an executive with a French education and background, to take this new responsibility in Romania?
P-H Matha: No, it was quite a challenge. In automotive industry, especially in lighting, we have to study in detail numerous topics simultaneously (styling convergence, perceived quality, electronics, control plan, validation plan). We need to enter into the smallest details, to take time to converge, to do the best product that will look like a jewel.
In Romania, engineers are not used to develop this way. They prefer to develop in one shot, very quickly, without taking the time to enter into specific details. I think this way of thinking is linked to the very fast evolution Romania has had during the last decade.
So my task is to change their way of working if we want to increase the perceived quality of our Dacia headlamp and rear lamp. On the new Logan presented last year, you can see the first step of this evolution.
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