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THAILAND: Mitsubishi boosts Mirage output after high demand
15 May 2012
Higher than expected orders for the new Mirage 'global small car' have prompted Mitsubishi Motors Thailand to boost output at its third assembly plant in Laem Chabang, Chon Buri province.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Autonomous motoring
11 May 2012
Most popular news article this week: an interview with Nady Boules, director of General Motors' electrical and control integration research skunkworks. He told how the automaker sees the pathway, timeframe and costs in moving through semi- to fully autonomous driving - the automaker has begun road testing prototype Cadillacs capable of semi-autonomous driving. GM calls the system ‘Super Cruise’.
JAPAN: Nissan Q4 profit jumps 33%
11 May 2012
Nissan’s profit jumped 33% year on year in the last quarter of its fiscal year to 31 March, 2012 and the carmaker predicted a 28% rise for the year ahead, driven by strong sales and the global launches of 10 new models.
BRAZIL: Mitsubishi importer to start building cars
9 May 2012
Mitsubishi's independent Brazilian importer is to revamp its factory and begin car production.
US SALES: More happiness
2 May 2012
April US light vehicle sales required a careful look: due to three fewer selling days this year, a modest 2.3% volume increase became a more respectable 15.1% increase in daily sales rate (DSR). Either way, the US market racked up its 20th consecutive month of year over year growth.
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.
April 2012 management briefing: OEM financial summaries (Toyota, Nissan and Honda)
30 April 2012
In this month's management briefing, Rob Golding runs his financial rule over the financial position of the automotive industry's major OEMs. In this instalment: Toyota, Nissan and Honda
JAPAN: GM ‘eyeing stake in Isuzu’
30 April 2012
General Motors and Isuzu, the Japanese small truck and pickup truck maker, could rekindle their 35-year capital partnership which GM ended in 2006 when it faced bankruptcy, according to Japanese media reports.
JAPAN: Mitsubishi offsets yen with cost cuts to boost profit
26 April 2012
Mitsubishi Motors has boosted full year net profit 53% to JPY23.9bn and operating profit up 58% to JPY 63.7bn on sales off 1% to JPY1.8 trillion. MMC blamed that on a drop in wholesale volume and the negative impact of the strong yen.
BEIJING SHOW: Historic list of world premieres
25 April 2012
The final list of world premiere concepts and production models which appeared for the first time at AutoChina 2012 on the 23 and 24 April media preview days.
BEIJING: Mitsubishi plans Chinese Mirage production
23 April 2012
Mitsubishi Motors wants to start producing Mirage compact models in China by 2014, a top company official said.
THAILAND: Mitsubishi ramps up Mirage production
19 April 2012
Mitsubishi Motors has started full production of the new Mirage "global compact car" at its Laem Chabang plant in Thailand.
PRODUCT EYE: A truck from China
18 April 2012
Great Wall's quiet entry into the UK market reminds me a little of the arrival of Japanese light commercials in the Antipodes back in the 50s and 60s. Softy-softly, word of mouth.
INTERVIEW: PSA Chairman Thierry Peugeot
12 April 2012
Working in the family firm sits easily with Thierry Peugeot. But it nearly didn't happen. His great, great, grandfather was against the idea of the company entering the new-fangled car industry 120 years ago; it didn't have a future, he thought. Far better to stick to bicycles, machine tools and salt and pepper grinders.
NEW YORK PREVIEW: Historic list of world premieres
10 April 2012
The final list of world premiere concepts and production models which appeared for the first time at the New York auto show's press days.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Iran comes into focus
5 April 2012
Iran, sanctions against, came into focus this week, not least with the news that a powerful US lobby group planned to have a go at automakers with links to the renegade state at this week's New York show.
US: Anti nuclear-Iran lobby highlights 12 automakers in campaign
5 April 2012
An increasingly vocal anti-nuclear lobby group in the US says it is not singling out Nissan in its vociferous campaign this week at the New York Motor Show highlighting 12 automakers with dealings in Iran.
US SALES: March SAAR best since 2008
4 April 2012
March came in like a lion and went out like one, too, at least in terms of US light vehicles sales. While the seasonally adjusted annualised rate (SAAR) didn’t match February’s 15.1m, it was still a very respectable 14.4m, in line with analyst estimates and the best March SAAR since 2008.
NEW YORK: Updated ASX to be Mitsubishi's US-made Outlander Sport
4 April 2012
Mitsubishi Motors North America revealed the updated ASX it will build and sell as the 2013 Outlander Sport compact crossover at the New York show.
US: Honda factory shadows 30 years of change
3 April 2012
Some interesting data pops up in a USA Today report on the 30 years of operations of Honda's Marysville, Ohio, plant set up to build the Accord - the company had already been building Gold Wing motorcycles on the site for a few years by then.
JAPAN: Overseas output up 25% in February
29 March 2012
Japanese car makers, trying to make up for production lost last year, boosted production at overseas plants by 25% to 1.37m units in February, the third consecutive month of year-on-year growth.
FRANCE: Peugeot ‘in talks with Toyota’
29 March 2012
PSA Peugeot Citroen and Toyota - who have been building small cars together in the Czech Republic since 2002 - are discussing joint production at the Sevelnord plant in northern France, according to French news agency AFP.
RUSSIA: Peugeot starting 408 production
29 March 2012
Peugeot plans to start production of the 408 line at PSMA Rus, a Russian unit of the PSA Peugeot Citroen–Mitsubishi Motors alliance, in the Kaluga Region this year, the automaker told Prime News.
UK: Peugeot, too, slashes EV price
21 March 2012
Like its PSA group sibling Citroen UK with the Mitsubishi i-MiEV-based C-Zero, Peugeot UK has slashed the price of its version, the i0n, to an identical GBP21,216 on the road (after the government's GBP5,000 Plug-in Car Grant) and is offering the same monthly lease deals priced from GBP249 over three years.
US: Mitsubishi to double Illinois output and export
20 March 2012
Mitsubishi is to double production at its US factory in Illinois to 70,000 vehicles a year, according to the Japanese business daily Nikkei.
JAPAN: Mitsubishi launching Mirage in Thailand
20 March 2012
Mitsubishi Motors (MMC) will start sales of its new Mirage 'global compact car' in Thailand from 28 March.
PHILIPPINES: Hyundai sales climb in February
20 March 2012
Hyundai Motor's Philippines unit grew sales by nearly 50% year on year in the first two months of 2011, it said in a statement.
UK [updated 15:25GMT]: Citroen slashes C-Zero EV price
19 March 2012
Citroen UK has slashed the price of its rebadged Mitsubishi i-MiEV C-Zero electric car from GBP33,155 to GBP26,216. The GBP5,000 government plug-in car grant further reduces the 'on-the-road' price to qualified applicants to GBP21,216, GBP4,700 less than Nissan's larger Leaf which costs GBP25,990 after the grant.
INDIA: Mitsubishi eyes small cars
12 March 2012
Mitsubishi Motors (MMC) is considering entering the volume driven small car segment in India.
CHINA: Japan trio see sales plummet
12 March 2012
Honda, Suzuki and Mitsubishi all reported lower new car sales in China for the first two months of the year.
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