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May 23, 2013

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Supplier Roundup

A roundup of this week’s news involving automotive suppliers....More
May 23, 2013

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Ford to Shutter Australian Plants in 2016

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....More
May 22, 2013

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Chrysler’s Jeep Grand Cherokee, Wrangler Plants Open Through Summer

Continued output of the SUVs is key to building Jeep’s global presence and responding to customer demand....More
May 22, 2013

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Spain Vehicle Sales Up 10.3% in April

Spain vehicle sales totaled 70,279 units for April 2013....More
May 22, 2013

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Ford Cutting Back on Summer Shutdowns to Meet Demand

Ford’s North American plants are pushed to the limit, with total capacity utilization at 114.0%, up from 103.2% year-ago, according to WardsAuto data....More
May 21, 2013

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Used-Car Demand Reflects Spain’s Depressed Economy

Industry officials expect this year’s proportion of used-car to new-car buyers will match last year’s record of 2.3:1, more than double the ratio in the pre-recession year of 2007....More
May 21, 2013

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Website Lists Family Cars Vanishing From U.K. Roads

A number of these cars had more than a million made, and yet there only are hundreds, or dozens, left....More
May 20, 2013

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GM Pickup Inventories, Sell-Down Going Smoothly, Reuss Says

The auto maker needs stocks to remain above the industry average of roughly 80 days, because it has been idling assembly plants to changeover tooling for the ’14 models trickling in to dealers now....More
May 20, 2013

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Honda Thailand Car-Sales Surge Powers Record April

The auto maker credits the April result to recovery from the 2011 flooding that shuttered its Thailand plant, and to ongoing deliveries in the government tax-refund program for first-time car buyers....More
May 20, 2013

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Dynamics in Surging Large Pickup Segment Mostly Point to More Market Share

Supporting the production rise are large-pickup sales in the U.S., which could top 1.9 million in 2013 and shoot past 2 million next year....More

Data Articles

Supplier Roundup

Ford to Shutter Australian Plants in 2016

Chrysler’s Jeep Grand Cherokee, Wrangler Plants Open Through Summer

Spain Vehicle Sales Up 10.3% in April

Ford Cutting Back on Summer Shutdowns to Meet Demand

Used-Car Demand Reflects Spain’s Depressed Economy

Website Lists Family Cars Vanishing From U.K. Roads

GM Pickup Inventories, Sell-Down Going Smoothly, Reuss Says

Honda Thailand Car-Sales Surge Powers Record April

Dynamics in Surging Large Pickup Segment Mostly Point to More Market Share

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