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Toyota Kicks Up V6 Plans (5/18/12)
… Cup race car. It will debut in race configuration. At the when he thirteen Daytona 500. The consumer version goes into production and later that year. Australian division holding all of stumbled a car. We knew buyer in come a fax auto sales but Jesse …
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Toyoda Rallies Home Team (5/17/12)
Home One Japanese auto executive wants to production in that region. But it's a tough task. Details ahead ..... association. And according to the AP go to is promising to keep production and jobs in Japan. To help the country recover from last …
Home -- One Japanese auto executive wants to -- production in that region. But it's a tough task. Details ahead.And according to the AP -- go to is promising to keep production and jobs in Japan. To help the country recover from last year's natural disasters. Toyota however says Japan's overly high tech station
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Ford's Prius V fighter (5/16/12)
… group plans to expand its plant in Lafayette Indiana. To this production of the outback crossover. And legacy sedan and game. This ..... releasing photos of a camel client first and plug in hybrid. Production and the super car is planned for September of next year …
Super group plans to expand its plant in Lafayette Indiana. To this production of the outback crossover. And legacy sedan and -- game. This 75 million -- pride Jack escalated to start this summer. Itcarmaker releasing photos of a camel client first and plug in hybrid. Production and the super car is planned for September of next year. The price -- a whopping 840000. Dollars. And as always you -
A 'cancer' for dealers? (5/21/12)
… drag. Which we get for free in the wind tunnel. Is equivalent to reducing vehicle mass 22 kilograms between kilogram mass production costs a lot of money you have to pay for carbon fiber and aluminum and magnesium. Here at an history. But it's appearing …
Is equivalent to reducing vehicle mass -- 22 kilograms between kilogram mass production costs a lot of money you have to pay for carbon fiber and aluminum and magnesium. Here at an -- history. -
Former Volvo exec Annvik joins Haldex as CEO
… supplier SKF, where he was head of business development in the automotive division. Haldex specializes in the development and production of brake, suspension and all-wheel-drive systems for global carmakers including the Volkswagen Group and Volvo. In 2011 …
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Future of Opel's Bochum plant still uncertain
… s decision last week to pull production of its Astra compact car from ..... Poland, from 2015, halting Astra production at Opel's main plant in Ruesselsheim ..... The move would likely mean production of the Zafira minivan would then …
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Fiat's Tata troubles could pave way for closer ties with Suzuki in India
… year. Struggling venture Fiat's venture with Tata Motors, meanwhile, has struggled. In 2007, the two companies began production in a joint venture with a capacity of 200,000 cars and 350,000 engines annually from a factory near Pune, western India …
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Toyota prods suppliers to grow in N.A.
As Toyota Motor Corp. expands production in North America, the company ..... suppliers keep up with our overall production requirements?" Young said in ..... prevent Toyota from reaching its 2012 production forecast. In North America, Toyota …
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Beyond crises, Toyota purchasing chief sees growth
… obviously up from last year, when our production was severely impacted by the earthquake ..... We're anticipating that our vehicle production will be up by more than 20 percent this ..... don't anticipate any impact to our production , but many suppliers are going to be …
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Despite yen, Toyota expects export surge to N.A.
… Akio Toyoda's commitment to keeping production capacity of at least 3 million units ..... million. Roughly 60 percent of its local production would be exported. "We have this special ..... mentality or principle of maintaining this production in Japan. This is not just a simple …
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Price dispute threatens Eberspaecher parts supply
… unless Eberspaecher agreed to a price increase. Eberspaecher's suit alleges that such a disruption could ultimately stop production of those vehicles using exhaust systems involved in the lawsuit, causing "assembly lines and workers at the OEMs to be idled …
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Uchiyamada backed U.S. in fight with Japan over Avalon
… University of Michigan who has written six books about the Toyota Production System and was briefed on the design meeting. Chief engineer ..... Angelo, who oversees all North American manufacturing and production engineering, says that's when Uchiyamada stepped in …
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German press expects Audi to shuffle exec deck
… American sales arm. Product development chief Michael Dick and production boss Frank Dreves are also thought to be on shaky ground ..... Duerheimer, the current head of Bentley and Bugatti. VW production chief Hubert Waltl is a possible successor to Dreves. Volkswagen …
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Suppliers had a great 2011, if they didn't sell to Toyota or Honda
… America. The list is available at autonews.com/topsuppliers . Vehicle sales by Toyota and Honda plunged last year after production of some parts was crippled, first by the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan and then by flooding at some suppliers' factories …
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For Hinrichs, CEO road runs through China
… Before that Hinrichs negotiated operating agreements with UAW locals in 2006-07 that gave the company the right to make Ford production workers perform a wider variety of tasks and allowed the plants operate at lower cost. Hinrichs, a manufacturing expert …
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Nylon scare shows need to switch materials
… from Evonik. Well, they know that now. "If there is a lesson to be learned, maybe it's that we have to take a deeper dive to identify production materials," Sharland says. "This underscores the complexity of the supply chain."
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Chevy SS takes on Chrysler rwd sedans
… has designated many high-performance Chevys over the years, starting with a 1957 Corvette prototype race car. The first production SS model was on the 1961 Impala. GM briefly sold a Holden-derived large rwd sedan as the Pontiac G8 before the brand …
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Daimler revamps M-B product development
… Vehicle Functions and Chassis division. It handles normal production and preliminary development issues relating to chassis and ..... partner Fuso. As head of quality activities, Boehm reports to production and purchasing chief Wolfgang Bernhard. Gorden Wagener continues …
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Chrysler will boost transmission production
… its three transmission plants in Indiana last week to boost production . On Monday, May 14, about 3,700 workers in Kokomo's ..... days. The result allows the automaker up to 49 more days of production a year at straight time, mainly because the plants operate …
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Suppliers ride the mpg wave
… Deliveries start in 2013 from the plant. The plant's production capacity is spoken for, the company says, and expansion ..... doors. The joint venture, founded in 2008, has said it has production contracts with six global automakers and expects to produce …
