The New Leviathan Blog

Toyota and the spirit of community  Japan's Toyota became the world's largest automaker in the first quarter of 2006, overtaking its struggling American rival General Motors in terms of sales and production. Toyota announced Tuesday that it sold 2.348 million vehicles worldwide from January to March. At the same time, it produced 2.367 million. All analysts expected Toyota, which is going from strength to strength in North America where local manufacturers are ...Read More >>

Rhineland capitalism: jolts or rebound? The European Commission wants to abolish the “Volkswagen law” which prevents a single shareholder from holding more than 20% of VW’s voting rights. Until now, this law protected Volkswagen from foreign investors by capping their voting rights. In 1960, when the German state privatized Volkswagen founded under the Third Reich, the federal government and Lower Saxony each retained 20 pc of the shares. At the same time the Bu...Read More >>

Automobile civilization: social and environmental destruction 1, Thus, while the Cold War was based on the atom, the hot war which began at the end of the 20th century is largely based on the automobile and its massive use on a planetary scale. The individual automobile characterizes the Western way of life, rapidly progressing throughout the rest of the planet, based on the accelerated plunder of natural resources and in particular hydrocarbons. However, what was already difficult t...Read More >>

Should road checks be reduced? Motorists would be more careful on roads where only the most essential information is displayed. Forgotten traffic lights, road markings and road signs... Some European engineers are pleading for minimalism in terms of traffic regulation, citing positive repercussions on road safety. According to them, motorists would be more careful on roads where only the most essential information is displayed. “It works,” says urban planner Ben Hami...Read More >>