Last month saw the 15th annual World Excellence Awards (WEA) ceremony at which Ford Motors celebrated 35 suppliers who demonstrated the ‘Go Further’ attitude and were awarded special honours.
Last month saw the 15th annual World Excellence Awards (WEA) ceremony at which Ford Motors celebrated 35 suppliers who demonstrated the ‘Go Further’ attitude and were awarded special honours.
Fiat has delivered its first 3,000 Fiat 500L vehicles to the North American market. The vehicles, which are being produced across the Atlantic at the company’s Kragujevac plant in Serbia, were brought by Grimaldi from the port of Bar in Montenegro.
Ford is ending production after 88 years, but it’s not going away. Rather, it will become a full importer. Officials say it costs four times as much to build a car in Australia as it does in Asia, and twice as much as in Europe.
Analysts peg OnStar’s revenues at about $1.5 billion annually, with a margin of 30 to 35 percent. That’s about five times the 6.2 percent margin from GM’s first-quarter adjusted earnings before interest and taxes in North America — where the vast majority of OnStar’s business is today
The Japanese-based carmaker will move 15,000 vehicles annually through Georgia, importing five of its models through the Port of Brunswick.
Volvo has put together a new department responsible for optimising the value chain, from supplier to manufactured car, through material planning, logistics and manufacturing, headed by Lars Wrebo, currently Senior Vice President Manufacturing.
Germany’s DB Schenker has secured two recent automotive contracts in quick succession that will see it supply comprehensive services for DAF Trucks’ new plant in Brazil while its joint venture with Saito opens a new warehouse for BMW in Japan.
Toyota is now building models of its Yaris compact car in France for export to the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, the first ever model to be built in Europe for the North American market. Previously the North American-sold Yaris has only been made in Japan.
General Motors has turned to Nissan Motor Co. to put Chevrolet dealers into the small cargo van market. GM, in a statement today, said it will rebadge Nissan’s new four-cylinder NV200 commercial van as the 2015 Chevrolet City Express in the fall of 2014.