Canada to Invest $34 Million in Toyota Plant to Build Lexus RX Hybrid
28 Jan 2013, 14:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the fact that the Canadian automotive industry is not what you`d call under-developed, the Americans' neighbours from the north do not currently build any hybrid vehicles. However, ...
Tesla Now Building 400 Cars Per Week - 20,000 Per Year
27 Jan 2013, 10:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Tesla Motors, as a fledgling automaker, has a few advantages the established leviathans just don`t have. One of these is flexibility, and the fact that when a change is made, its effect is felt imme...
Volkswagen Inaugurates Huge Solar Park in the US
25 Jan 2013, 10:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Automakers are now on a quest to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by streamlining their operations, as well as adding as much new green tech as is currently financially possible and viable. Vol...
Genk Protest Ends - Ford Resumes Production
24 Jan 2013, 08:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation at Ford's plant in Genk, Belgium, where production had been stopped due to workers blocking and cutting the supply of parts, as well as disrupting the plant in other ways. Up unti...
Nissan Pondered Closing Down Infiniti
24 Jan 2013, 08:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Infiniti, Nissan's premium Lexus-rivaling brand, has been on the market for the last 24 years, they have struggled right from the start, with cars not nearly up to the standard of their G...
VW Ads Factory Shift to Boost Golf VII Production
23 Jan 2013, 16:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Ford, Opel and basically all the French automakers are closing plants, cutting shifts and firing workers. But Volkswagen is doing just fine. In fact, demand for their latest Golf is more than just f...
GM May Close Opel's Bochum Plant By the End of 2014, Not 2016
22 Jan 2013, 13:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation over at GM's European arm, Opel, seems to be really bleak. The American giant is now pressuring Opel to speed up the application of cost-cutting measures, and this may bring about...
Renault Creates Joint Venture With China's Dongfeng for 150,000 Cars Per Year
22 Jan 2013, 12:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault is not as present as some other mainstream manufacturers, on the Chinese market, yet they plan to change that, and the first order of business is the creation of a joint-venture, with a loca...
Jaguar Begins Production of XF in India
22 Jan 2013, 12:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In an effort to be able to offer Indian customers the XF at lower prices, Jaguar has just announced the start of local production for the 5-Series-rivalling sedan. Thanks to lower taxes and the vari...
SRT Viper Almost Ready for 2013
22 Jan 2013, 08:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Everybody has been really excited since the 2013 SRT Viper arrived, and some seem to have forgotten that it arrived slightly later than originally planned. The cars were supposed to arrive in dealer...
Toyota Aims to Build All-US Bound Vehicles Locally
21 Jan 2013, 16:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Toyota is one of the Japanese manufacturers (very) present on the US market, whose vehicles account for a very large chunk of the 'mundane' car sales of the country. They are well-known fo...
Ford Production in Genk Still Stopped Due to Protests
20 Jan 2013, 12:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ford has already announced that it will be closing down its Genk plant, in Belgium, the historic home of all big Europe-bound Fords, like the Sierra, Scorpio and Mondeo, and moving production to Spa...
Renault to Cut 7,500 Jobs in France by 2016
17 Jan 2013, 11:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault has recently announced that it too will be joining the club of European automakers desperate to make ends meet, in these times of economic turmoil. Following the model set by PSA and Opel, R...
Volvo Boss Confirms Nine New Models by 2015
16 Jan 2013, 11:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The new CEO of Volvo, Hakan Samuelsson, has confirmed that the Swedish automaker will be updating and/or replacing eight of the nine models currently in the range, within the next 12 months. The inf...
General Motors Announces Creation of New Jobs and Additional Shifts
16 Jan 2013, 09:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the European automotive industry is experiencing the worst period in the last 30 years, in the US things are very different. Following an announcement made by Ford, regarding the addition of n...
UK - Honda Fires 800 Swindon Plant Employees
11 Jan 2013, 13:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Honda has just announced that it will be cutting jobs at its production facility, in Swindon. A reported 800 workers will be sent home, as demand for the vehicles produced there is not as high as fi...
Honda to Build 2014 Accord Hybrid at Ohio Plant
11 Jan 2013, 10:52 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Honda has announced that it will build the 2014 Accord Hybrid at the Japanese manufacturer’s Marysville, Ohio plant. However, the plant requires $23 million in investment before production can...
Bugatti to Keep Building Veyron Grand Sport Through 2014
11 Jan 2013, 09:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite rumors of a new model being on its way, Bugatti has announced that it will keep building the Veyron Grand Sport, and while it has not been specified how long it will go on, production is exp...
Kia Plans to Match 2012 Record Output at Slovakian Plant
10 Jan 2013, 16:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Last year was great for Kia’s Slovakian production location, where the Korean carmaker builds the Cee’d, Venga and Sportage SUV. They managed to make a very impressive 292,000 units thro...
Nissan Releases Video Detailing Leaf Production at Smyrna Plant
9 Jan 2013, 14:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Nissan`s plan to produce the Leaf at their Smyrna plant, in Tennessee, is well underway, and cars should begin rolling off the production line soon. It was originally planned to enter production in ...