Automotive Manufacturing Market Statistics, May 2013

Scooter Innovation Trends In India: Yamaha Bullish On Indian Mkt, Launches New Scooter, Motorcycle Models

Company news
11 hours ago
by HT Media

Panjim (Goa), 2013-05-25 -- Further consolidating its position in Indian bike , scooter markets, Japanese 2-wheeler giant Yamaha Motor on Friday launched its 2nd offering in the scooter Sector - RAY Z , 2 bikes in the Yamaha SZ sport model series -SZRR , SZ-S, while pointing out that it sees India becoming 1 of its top 5 markets by 2016 as it plans to roll out many products...

Industries : Motorcycle
Countries : India

Scooter Innovation Trends In India: Yamaha Launches Ray-z Scooters

Company news
11 hours ago
by HT Media

PANAJI, 2013-05-25 -- Japanese 2-wheeler maker Yamaha Motors , while launching the Ray-Z model scooter on Friday, said it expects the Indian Industry to become 1 of its top 5 markets by 2016 as it plans to roll out many products in the volume-driven mass Sector here. Yamaha , which launched the Ray model scooter in September last year with a strategy of 'made by women for women', added ...

Industries : Motorcycle
Countries : India

Clean Vehicle Corporate Deals In China And Germany: German Ambassador

Company news
13 hours ago
by Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING , 2013-05-25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming visit to Germany will enhance the strategic partnership between the 2 regions, German Ambassador to China Michael Schaeffer said. The nature of their strategic partnership extends to all regions, including the economic, political , cultural sectors, Schaeffer said. Political dialogue has been elevated to an unprec...

Industries : Clean Vehicle
Countries : China, Germany

Electric Vehicle Deals And Alliances In Russian Federation And Serbia And Montenegro: Russian-serbian Declaration Taking Relations To New Dimensions

Company news
23 hours ago
by Itar-Tass

SOCHI, 2013-05-24 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin , Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Friday signed a bilateral declaration on strategic partnership. The signing ceremony was held upon the completion of talks between the Presidents. Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov said earlier the document took a long enough time to draft but its signin...

Industries : Clean Vehicle
Countries : Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro

Clean Vehicle Market In China: Delphi Automotive Plc At Robert W Baird And Company Growth Stock Conference - Final

Industry news
1 day ago
by CQ Transcriptions LLC

Presentation DAVID LEIKER , ANALYST, ROBERT W. BAIRD : Good afternoon. My name is David Leiker . I am the auto , truck analyst at Baird. The next presentation here is from Delphi. The Industry player is a supplier of electric systems , products, powertrain technology, safety systems , thermal management products. Delphi has a broad exposure to the 4 secular themes in the automotive space ...

Industries : Clean Vehicle
Countries : China

Passenger Vehicle Sector In China: Profile Of China's Passenger Vehicle Sector In Apr. 2013

Industry news
1 day ago
by Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING , 2013-05-24 (Xinhua) ? A total of 5.86 million sedans, multi-purpose vehicles (MPV), sports-utility vehicles (SUV) , crossovers were sold across China in the 1st 4 months of 2013, up 16.15 % from the same period of last year, statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) show. In April, China's passenger vehicles sales totaled 1.44 mil...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : China

Automotive Manufacturing Innovation In South Korea: Hyundai To Build New Research And Development Facility At Nurburgring

Industry news
1 day ago
by M2 Communications

Auto Business News - 24 May 2013 Hyundai Motors Industry player (KSE: 005380), a South Korea -based automaker, is planning to invest British Pound4.7m to build a new research , development facility at the Nurburgring in the Rhine...

Industries : Automotive Manufacturing
Countries : South Korea

Transporter Innovation Trends: The New Iveco Brand Dedicated To Passenger Transport

Company news
1 day ago
by Cision

Watford, 24 May 2013 Iveco Bus has today been launched as the new brand name for Iveco?s passenger transport business, replacing the former Iveco Irisbus , confirming the Industry player?s commitment to this key Market. The development marks the beginning of a new phase for Iveco?s passenger transport activities with the objective of expanding sales activity globally. It is the last step in an e...

Industries : Heavy Truck and Bus
Countries : World, Europe, South America

Electric Vehicle Industry In Japan And New Zealand: Address To The Nikkei Forum, Tokyo

Industry news
1 day ago
by M2 Communications

New Zealand Government -- Mr Chairman, ladies , gentlemen, I thank the Nikkei Forum for their invitation - it is great to be part of such a wide-ranging discussion on the future of Asia . , it is a special pleasure to be back in Japan at this particular time. It is almost 3 years since my last visit. A lot has changed. Japan , like my own region, has suffered a huge natural d...

Industries : Clean Vehicle
Countries : Japan, New Zealand

Truck Market Position In Asia: Strategic Fuso Truck Rolls Out Of Chennai As 1st Outcome Of Daimler Trucks 'new Asia Business Model'

Company news
1 day ago
by M2 Communications

ENP Newswire - 24 May 2013 Release date- 23052013 - Chennai, India / Kawasaki, Japan - Mitsubishi Fuso Truck , Bus Corporation (MFTBC), 1 of Asia's leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, , Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), today, unveiled its strategic plans to join forces as 'Daimler Trucks Asia' under the new 'Asia Business Model.' Moving ahead under t...

Industries : Light Truck and Van
Countries : Asia, India, Japan

Light Truck And Van Strategic Alliances In The United States: Used Gm 5.3 Engine Now Sold To Truck Owners Online At Usedenginesforsale.net

Company news
1 day ago
by PR Web

Beaumont, Texas (PRWEB) 2013-05-24 General Motors replacement engines are popular with secondary Industry sellers due to the amount of GM vehicle owners in North America . The supply of engines can fluctuate as well as pricing due to a number of factors. The usedenginesforsale.net Industry player has acquired more preowned GM motors in its inventory , is now selling the used GM 5.3 engine ...

Industries : Light Truck and Van
Countries : United States

Passenger Car Production Statistics In Australia: Fed:gillard Resists Call For Car Tariff Rise

Company news
1 day ago
by Australian Associated Press

CANBERRA , 2013-05-24 AAP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard is resisting pressure from unions , Labor MPs to raise tariffs or significantly boost Market assistance after Ford's decision to stop making automobiles in Australia . Ford says about 1200 workers will lose their jobs at its 2 plants in Victoria by October 2016 . The Industry player's profits have been squeezed by the high Australian doll...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Commercial Vehicle Market In China: China Zenix Auto International Declares Financial Results For The Q1 Of 2013

Industry news
1 day ago
by PR Newswire

ZHANGZHOU, China , May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- China Zenix Auto International Limited (NYSE: ZX) ("Zenix Auto" or "the Industry player"), the largest commercial vehicle wheel manufacturer in China in both the aftermarket , OEM Industry by sales volume, today announced its unaudited financial results for the Q1 ended 2013-03-31 . Financial Highlights...

Industries : Light Truck and Van
Countries : China

Large Car Production Statistics In Australia: Fed:recent Geelong Job Losses And Gains

Company news
1 day ago
by Australian Associated Press

RECENT GEELONG JOB MOVES: * June 2012 : Alcoa's Point Henry aluminium plant, near Geelong, receives more than US Dollars 40 million rescue package from federal/Victorian governments, saving 600 jobs for at lea2another two years. However, it declares 60 jobs will have to go. * July 2012...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Capacity In Australia: Survival Fight For Suppliers

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

THOUSANDS of jobs are at risk across Victoria's automobile parts supplier Market, with at least 50 companies that supply directly to Ford given a 3-year deadline to diversify or disappear. The Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers has called Ford's decision to kill off production a ``devastating day'' for the local Market. The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union has warn...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Capacity In Australia: What Future For Holden And Toyota? Ford Is Simply Facing Up To The Harsh Reality About Economies Of Scale

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

FORD'S decision to stop making automobiles in Australia from 2016 is built around 2 very grim realities that will continue to challenge the future of local automobile manufacturing by Holden , Toyota . The 1st reality is that Australia has become a very expensive place to build automobiles for a wide variety of reasons, , the knock-on effects of the Ford decision on removing scale from the local part...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Statistics In Australia: Time To Rethink Help For Sector

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

FORD'S decision to shut its Australian manufacturing operations was as inevitable as it is devastating for the families , communities of the 1200 Victorian workers who will lose their jobs when the Industry player's factories shut in October 2016 . Sales of Ford Falcons, once the region's most popular automobile, are at their lowest level since the Broadmeadows factory opened in 1960 , Ford's total Au...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Capacity In Australia: Ford Exit The Pits For Market Labor Offers Support But Unions Warn Thousands More Jobs At Risk

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

THOUSANDS of jobs in the automotive components Market are at risk in the wake of Ford's decision to close its Australian manufacturing operations from 2016 , consign the iconic Falcon to history. As Julia Gillard stepped in with US Dollars 10 million towards a $12m assistance package for the Marketts industry, , a further $30m towards a $39m joint federal-Victorian government rescue p...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Capacity In Australia: Thousands Await Their Fate As They Brace For The Fallout - Supply Chain - - Car Market In Crisis -

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

THOUSANDS of jobs in the components Market are at risk from Ford's decision to close its Australian factories, with Market warning of a devastating domino effect across the supply chain. Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Victorian assistant secretary Leigh Diehm said a ``rough estimate'' was that at least 3500 workers would lose their jobs in the components Market as a result of Ford...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Industry In Australia: Holden Pleads For Help As Ford Closes Shop Don't Let Us Be Next

Industry news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

HOLDEN says it still plans to build automobiles in Adelaide until at least 2022 but warns ``swift action'' is needed from political leaders to ensure the Australian auto Market remains viable. The partial reassurance follows Ford's bombshell announcement that it will stop making automobiles at its 2 Victorian plants from 2016, ending 90 years of manufacturing in Australia . Holden yesterday vowed ...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia, United States

Passenger Car Market Shares In Australia: Ford's Departure And The Limits Of Market Welfare

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

Being globally competitive is critical for manufacturing IT is more than half a century since Ford began building Falcons in Australia , a automobile the commercials boasted was ``for Australian people, Australian needs, for our kind of driving , our highway speeds''. It was to become the most successful Australian automobile ever, fighting a battle with Holden in the showrooms , on the slopes of B...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Industry In Australia: Future's Bleak For Staff - Workforce - - Car Sector In Crisis -

Industry news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

WHEN Mitsubishi closed its Australian production doors at Tonsley in Adelaide's southern suburbs in 2008, its remaining 900 employees were directed towards mining as the workforce's great saviour. But Andrew Beer , director of the University of Adelaide's Centre for Housing , Urban , Regional Planning, found only 4 per cent of workers gained jobs in mining, , up to a 3rd of the ...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Sport Utility Vehicle And Large Car Industry In Australia: Changing Tastes Driving Sales - Trends - - Car Sector In Crisis -

Industry news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

automobile dealers have enjoyed a stellar 12 months, achieving record sales on the back of an extraordinary 21 per cent increase in sales of sports utility vehicles. But the large-automobile Market, in which the Australian manufacturers compete, is having a terrible time, with sales slumping 29.4 per cent in the 1st 4 months of this year. The high currency has compounded the shift in consumer taste aw...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Capacity In Australia: Napthine Spurned On Offer Of Aid - Assistance - - Car Market In Crisis -

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

FORD rejected an eleventh-hour bid to save thousands of automobile Market jobs when it was offered taxpayer-funded financial assistance to keep manufacturing in Australia . The Napthine government revealed yesterday that Ford was told this week that a package of measures could be offered to keep the Geelong , Broadmeadows factories open for business beyond 2016. But this had been rejected by ...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Statistics In Australia: End Of The Road Looms After Ford

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

Opinion is divided on whether Aussie automobile manufacture will screech to a halt WHEN Ford's former global head Jac Nasser warned 6 weeks ago of the imminent end of the Australian automobile Market, he couldn't put a timeframe on it. But he knew what the trigger would be. ``Let's assume 1 of the 3 (automobile companies) decide to exit Australia in terms of manufacturing . . . once that happen...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Clean Vehicle Innovation Trends In Australia: Our Mangroves Are A Treasure

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

THE forest of mangroves in Darwin harbour holds US Dollars 460 million worth of carbon on Industryrbon market, research has found. A report by researchers at Charles Darwin University has discovered the Top End harbour contained more than 19,000ha of mangroves that are in a relatively pristine condition. The shrubs were revealed to be among the most carbon-rich vegetation forms, , store approxima...

Industries : Clean Vehicle
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Statistics In Australia: Ford Shutdown Just No Way Forward

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

FORD slammed the door on its Australian manufacturing operations -- , 1200 jobs -- by email after pocketing US Dollars 1.1 billion in taxpayer cash over the past 12 years to stay in the region. The motoring giant's local chiefs briefed the Federal Government on Sunday that the future of its historic manufacturing plants once the lifeblood of Geelong , Broadmeadows was in serious jeopardy. Bu...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Car Manufacturing Production Statistics In Australia: Holden, Toyota Commit Some Hope For Sector After Ford Stalls

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

MELBOURNE : The 2 automobile makers left standing following Ford's decision to get out have reaffirmed their commitment to Australia , for now at least. But the view is that the Australian automobile manufacturing Market is dying, which is a grave worry for the automotive component suppliers that represent more employees than the big automobile makers. Ford posted an US Dollars 141 million annual loss in Austral...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Statistics In Australia: Angry Fan Says Ford Is Cowardly For Giving Up

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

A TERRITORY Ford tragic said the American automobile manufacturer was acting like a ``cowardly dog'' by closing its Australian manufacturing operations. Classic Ford Club NT committee member Tim Bryan said he was ``devastated'' that Ford was giving up on Australia . ``I feel like it is a bit like a cowardly dog that has been bitten hard , has just rolled over,'' Mr Bryan said. Mr Bryan...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia

Passenger Car Production Statistics In Australia: Eleventh-hour Offer Of More Victorian Taxpayer Aid Was Spurned - Assistance - - Car Sector In Crisis -

Company news
1 day ago
by News Ltd.

FORD rejected an eleventh-hour bid to save thousands of automobile Market jobs when it was offered taxpayer-funded financial assistance to keep manufacturing in Australia . The Napthine government revealed yesterday that Ford was told this week that a package of measures could be offered to keep the Geelong , Broadmeadows factories open for business beyond 2016. But this had been rejected by Company...

Industries : Passenger Car
Countries : Australia