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MALAYSIA: Perodua to strengthen production, sales network
9 May 2012
Malaysia’s second national car company, Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua (Perodua), said it would spend up to MYR1.5bn (US$488m) over the next three years on its manufacturing operations to help improve competitiveness.
JAPAN: Sales bounce back following 2011 disaster
2 May 2012
New car sales in Japan rose 93% in April following the earthquake and tsunami which hit the country just over a year ago.
JAPAN: Prius best seller for three years
5 April 2012
Toyota's Prius hybrid was the best selling vehicle in Japan for the third straight year in fiscal 2011, industry bodies said.
JAPAN: Daihatsu to end Copen production
3 April 2012
Toyota's affiliate Daihatsu is ending the 10 year run of its Copen model, the only convertible minicar on the Japanese market.
INDONESIA: Nissan to boost capacity by 150,000 units in 2014
19 March 2012
Another large investment in Indonesia's automaking industry has been announced by a government minister.
INDIA: Sales set to overtake Japan in four years
15 March 2012
India could overtake Japan as Asia's second largest vehicle market behind China by 2016, according to new estimates from IHS Automotive.
EMERGING MARKETS ANALYSIS: Chinese exports finally start to gain traction
2 March 2012
China’s car industry has been on the steepest of growth curves for a decade now, but the growth rate is starting to slow. So is now the time to turn to Plan B – exports to the West? Mark Bursa reports
JAPAN: Subaru ends minicar production
27 February 2012
Subaru maker Fuji Heavy Industries is to stop producing minicars to concentrate on more profitable small and midsize models.
MALAYSIA: Daihatsu building country's first auto transmission plant
23 February 2012
Daihatsu Motor has created a new company, Akashi-Kikai Malaysia, which will build automatic transmissions. This will be the first such plant to be erected in the country.
ANALYSIS: Toyota attacks the Indian market, sales surge 89%
17 February 2012
The little Toyota Etios is proving to be a big winner for Toyota Kirloskar (TKML), the Japanese firm's Indian manufacturing joint venture. In January, with the overall market up five percent, TKML saw its sales rise by 89 percent.
January 2012 management briefing: 2012's growing vehicle markets
31 January 2012
The problems facing the European vehicle market were described in the last instalment of January's briefing. In this article, we consider the prospects for vehicle demand in other world regions.
JAPAN: Toyota confirms loss of top carmaker spot
25 January 2012
Toyota Motor confirmed Wednesday that its world group sales fell below the 8m mark in 2011, losing the firm its number one spot in the global carmakers' league.
ANALYSIS: ASEAN sales up by 3.8% in 2011
24 January 2012
New vehicle sales in the ASEAN region’s six largest markets fell by 15.4% to 584,790 units in the fourth quarter of 2011, from 691,517 units a year earlier, writes Tony Pugliese.
US: GM top automaker again
20 January 2012
General Motors reclaimed the title of world's biggest carmaker title in 2011 after Toyota production was reduced as a result of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the Thai floods late in the year, effects of which are still ongoing.
INDONESIA: Record sales in 2011
5 January 2012
New vehicle sales in Indonesia rose by over 17% to a record 893,420 units in 2011, from 763,751 units in 2010 earlier, according to industry association Gaikindo.
JAPAN: Toyota eyes record output in 2012
22 December 2011
Toyota plans to increase sales by 20% from 2011 to a record 8.48m units in 2012 with emerging markets accounting for 45% of total sales, up from a 33% share four years ago.
December 2011 management briefing: Review of 2011 (part 1)
20 December 2011
Like any year in the auto industry, 2011 saw its fair share of company ups and downs, industrial comings and goings, and a fair old sprinkling of corporate drama. Added to the mix this year were devastating natural disasters. We covered it all on just-auto. Editor Dave Leggett sifts through the lot and picks out a few highlights from the year just gone, month by month. Part one covers the first half of the year.
PRODUCT EYE: Toyota manufacturing chief on updated Avensis
19 December 2011
So you're the world's most famously sensible car company. You've also had one hell of an annus horriblus, a year in fact that could have dealt a killer blow to car companies with a lesser cash pile than Toyota's. Your president has publicly shed tears over the deaths of people for whom a supposedly faulty throttle design was blamed. Now you just want 2011 to be over.
JAPAN: Toyota Prius retains top spot
8 December 2011
The Toyota Prius hybrid retained its position as Japan's best-selling vehicle in November for the sixth consecutive month, according to the country’s automobile dealers association.
INDIA: Maruti to export CKD kits to Asia
7 December 2011
Maruti Suzuki India plans to export CKD (completely knocked down) vehicles for assembly overseas.
TOKYO MOTOR SHOW: Global debuts list
29 November 2011
Just-auto's list of all global premieres revealed on the 30 November media day of the biennial Tokyo motor show.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: The stories that just won't go
25 November 2011
There are two long-running stories - or should that be sagas - on just-auto currently that just won't go away, a bit like that annoying, half-dead, end-of-summer blow-fly that gets into your office and just won't disappear again, despite numerous physical and/or chemical inducements.
November 2011 management briefing: ASEAN – part 2
24 November 2011
In this month's management briefing Tony Pugliese takes a close look at the growing automotive markets and industry in the ASEAN area of southeast Asia. Part 2 looks at trends in vehicle manufacturing, focusing on OEM developments in Thailand and Indonesia.
THAI FLOODS: Daihatsu to 'normalise' vehicle production at two plants for five days
22 November 2011
Toyota minicar affiliate and contract assembler Daihatsu Motor 'normalised' vehicle production at two Japanese plants for five days from Monday (21 November) after suspending overtime work late last month due to parts supply chain disruptions induced by the massive flood in Thailand, company officials said.
November 2011 management briefing: ASEAN – part 1
15 November 2011
In this month's management briefing Tony Pugliese takes a close look at the growing automotive markets and industry in the ASEAN area of southeast Asia. Part 1 examines the region's national vehicle markets.
THAI FLOODS: Impact spreading worldwide for Toyota
28 October 2011
Toyota has said it would keep its Thai production suspended for a fourth week and reduce output in North America and South Africa marking further impact of the floods in Thailand on car production outside Asia - supplies of some Honda parts to other countries have previously been hit.
MALAYSIA: Proton now in collaboration talks with Perodua
6 October 2011
Malaysia’s two main national car companies, Proton and Perodua, are in discussions that are expected to lead to closer collaboration between the two automakers.
JAPAN: Toyota launches first minicar
26 September 2011
Japan's 660cc minicar segment, which last year accounted for about 35% of total vehicles sales and could grow to take 50%, has a new nameplate: Toyota.
INDONESIA: GM chief has ambitious sales goals
13 September 2011
General Motors wants to increase sales in Indonesia five times by 2014 when its revived factory will be producing at full capacity of 40,000 vehicles a year, the head of local operations has said.
INDONESIA: Daihatsu plans second assembly plant
9 September 2011
Indonesia’s largest vehicle manufacturer, PT Daihatsu Astra Motor, is building a second plant in Indonesia, in Karawang – some 70km (40 miles) east of Jakarta.
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