The plant’s new assembly line is the first using robots to ensure quality consistency for Peugeot’s new T73 C-segment sedan launching in Malaysia in coming months.
The auto maker plans to reopen its Thai plant March 26, with executives saying expansion of Indonesian production was in place well before last fall’s flooding.
The auto maker says it has negotiated a A$275 million co-investment package with the Australian and South Australian governments that covers a 10-year vehicle-development and manufacturing program.
The Chinese auto maker announces at the Melbourne Truck Trailer and Equipment Show it will partner with Australian vehicle-importer WMC Group to release its lineup of European-designed, Chinese-built Maxus vans and...
Australian auto makers have steadily improved fuel efficiency while lowering carbon-dioxide emissions, but consumer choices “ultimately will determine the fleet’s CO2 profile,” an industry official...
Honda production remained crippled in February, leaving industry new-car sales down 4%, but commercial-vehicles more than made up for the decline with deliveries jumping 33.4%.
Nadzmi’s departure is stipulated in the sales-and-purchase agreement between government investment company Khazanah Nasional and Proton’s new majority owner, industrial conglomerate DRB-Hicom.
“Economic purists may call our industry archaic, past our use-by-date,” FCAI CEO says. “The term ‘rust bucket’ seems to flow easily from…poisonous pens. But this characterization...