Few people take cars more seriously than Michiganders

You might have been to the home of BMW in Germany, to Kia‘s HQ in Korea or you might have seen Honda‘s goods in Japan. No one, from the factory worker to the executive in her pinstriped suit, is more obsessed with cars than Michigan Inc. If you’re reading this in New York, Silicon Valley, or one of the automotive heartlands listed above, you do care about this. If Michigan rethinks its approach to the car business – and makes moves to become more competitive – that affects you the consumer and enthusiast. It’s jobs. It’s technology, and it’s a competition to see who’s going to be the leader.

More than a century after Henry Ford made mass production a thing, more than 70 years after Detroit’s Arsenal of Democracy helped win World War II, and nearly a decade after the historic bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler, the car business is on solid footing again and looking to the future. What’s next? Michigan is still home to thousands of auto workers, tech centers (including gleaming facilities built by Toyota and Hyundai), and the headquarters of the three American automakers. Read more