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automobiles General Motors yesterday said it would suspend production in Thailand in December and January to counter falling global demand, putting 2,000 workers on paid leave. 'Less than 2,000 staff [...]

automobiles General Motors plans to suspend production at its factories in South Korea for about two weeks starting next month, in one of the strongest signs yet that the crisis [...]

General Motors plans to suspend production at its factories in South Korea for about two weeks, starting next month in one of the strongest signs yet that the crisis in [...]

AUTOMOBILES Lower sales prompt cuts at 10 plants General Motors is cutting production at most of its 10 manufacturing plants in Europe in a stark sign of the growing toll [...]

AUTOMOBILES Volvo, the Swedish carmaker, is expected to announce that it is cutting production by about 5 per cent as it reacts to a slump in sales. The Swedish premium [...]

AUTOMOBILES Vehicle sales fall more than 12% Cost-cutting aims to save SKr4bn Volvo, the Swedish carmaker, is expected to announce that it is cutting production by about 5 per cent [...]

General Motors and Ford said yesterday they would cut north American vehicle production in response to weakening demand, especially for big sport-utility vehicles and pick-up trucks. Five of the six [...]

Ford Motor yesterday announced plans to expand its South African operations in spite of concerns over a worsening power crisis that may soon see it begin making vehicles by night. [...]

General Motors is to expand its production and distribution capacity within Europe to build 700,000 Chevrolet cars a year in the region by 2010 and cross the 1m a year [...]

General Motors plans to more than double the planned capacity of its car assembly plant outside St Petersburg, writes John Reed. The factory is due to begin production in 2008. [...]

MUNICH -- BMW, the German luxury carmaker, is considering expanding its capacity in China as its joint venture plant there reaches its production limit. BMW can expand capacity from the [...]

DETROIT -- General Motors' European unit is poised to record a profit for 2006 - its first in six years. The news delivered a boost to the troubled US carmaker [...]

TOKYO -- Nissan yesterday said it had cut initial production costs by 30 per cent and aimed to reduce costs by another 10-20 per cent by raising production efficiency. Japan's [...]

TOKYO -- Nippon Steel, Japan's leading steelmaker, is considering expanding its production capacity of automotive steel sheet in North America to keep pace with demand from Japanese carmakers. Despite the [...]

LONDON -- Tata Motors and Fiat are planning joint production of small cars and engines in India in the first manufacturing deal since the Indian and Italian carmakers formed an [...]

LONDON -- General Motors rejected appeals from government and trade unions to save its Portuguese van factory but delayed the shutdown by three months as a sop to workers who [...]

TVR, the Blackpool-based sports car maker owned by Russian oligarch Nikolai Smolensky, will announce tomorrow that it is to set up a new factory at an undisclosed location in the [...]

The worst fears of the 260 workers remaining at TVR, the Blackpool-based sports car maker, were realised yesterday when they were told the sole factory was to close less than [...]

Coventry, heavily bombed in the second world war, prides itself on its ability to take knocks and bounce back. But the closure of the Peugeot plant in Ryton, coming on [...]

Peugeot's announcement of the closure next year of its carmaking plant at Ryton near Coventry represents a devastating blow to its 2,300-strong workforce and perhaps another 1,000 working at British [...]

Sixty years of carmaking at Ryton, near Coventry, will end next year with the closure of the Peugeot plant and the loss of 2,300 jobs. The site's closure, where the [...]

Has Le Cost Killer gone soft? Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of Renault and its Japanese partner Nissan, yesterday laid out a four-year plan for the French carmaker which involved [...]

LONDON -- PSA Peugeot Citroen, the French carmaker, yesterday announced a Euros 350m (Dollars 414m) expansion of its Trnava factory in Slovakia - before the plant has even built its [...]

Shares in General Motors slipped towards an 18-year low by the end of last week as plans to axe 30,000 jobs, close nine plants and three other operations did nothing [...]

TORONTO and LONDON -- Ford Motor plans 'significant plant closings' requiring 'sacrifices' across the company following its first quarterly loss in two years. Bill Ford, chairman and chief executive of [...]

TORONTO -- General Motors plans to close more assembly plants in North America as part of a drive to improve financial performance, Rick Wagoner, the carmaker's chief executive, said yesterday. [...]

TORONTO -- Toyota has underlined its growing strength in North America by unveiling plans to build a CDollars 800m (USDollars 653m) assembly plant in Ontario and expand a wheel factory [...]

TORONTO -- General Motors and Ford Motor will step up their US sales incentives and significantly cut their third-quarter car and light truck output after reporting double-digit declines in sales [...]

TORONTO -- General Motors and Ford Motor are set to unveil further cuts in their North American vehicle output today in conjunction with continued erosion in their sales and market [...]

TORONTO -- A key supplier to General Motors has sharply lowered its production forecast, fuelling expectations that the world's largest carmaker will soon announce further output cuts in North America [...]

LONDON -- Volvo, the Swedish truck and machinery group, is considering expanding two factories in North America to capitalise on rising demand for construction equipment and to offset problems caused [...]

Birmingham engine plant BMW is starting engine production at the Hams Hall engine plant near Birmingham it retained after handing over its Rover operations to the Phoenix consortium of Midlands [...]

The long-term future of Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port car plant could be determined next month when senior executives of General Motors, the carmaker's US parent, meet to discuss where to assemble [...]

Chrysler, the US arm of the DaimlerChrysler automotive group, forecast yesterday that it will make only 678,700 new cars and trucks in the first quarter of 2001, as it attempts [...]

Toyota Motor, Japan's largest carmaker, is to increase output at its Derbyshire plant by 30 per cent to soak-up excess capacity and improve production costs. The move, likely to be [...]

Jaguar, the luxury car arm of Ford, is expected to announce today plans to put its F-type concept car into full production, writes Tim Burt, Motor Industry Correspondent. Wolfgang Reitzle, [...]

BMW, the German automotive group, said yesterday that it had created more than 2,500 jobs in Germany over the past year amid growing demand for its premium vehicles. The company [...]

DaimlerChrysler in plant move DaimlerChrysler, the German-US automotive group, is planning to invest about Euros 200m (Dollars 179m) to build a new engine plant in eastern Europe for its new [...]

Mitsubishi Motors Corp, the Japanese carmaker 34 per cent owned by DaimlerChrysler, the German/US car group, is to bail out its lossmaking Australian subsidiary, prompting concerns over the direction of [...]

BMW is poised to seek detailed planning consent for a new factory to build Rolls-Royce cars on motoring enthusiast the Earl of March's Goodwood estate in West Sussex. The German [...]

Mitsubishi Motors, the Japanese carmaker in which DaimlerChrysler, the German/US vehicle group has a 34 per cent stake, is considering closing its only factory in Australia as part of wider [...]

In the town of Camacari,in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Bahia, Ford Motor Company is building one of the world's most modern automotive plants. With a total price tag of [...]

Honda yesterday joined a growing list of mainly Japanese companies abandoning or redrafting manufacturing projects in Britain because of the weakness of the euro compared with sterling. The Japanese carmaker [...]

Ford Motor Company yesterday announced that it was recalling about 351,000 Ford Focus vehicles in the US, from the 2000 model year, after reports indicated several possible flaws. The carmaker [...]

BMW, the German car-maker, raised the prospect yesterday of building BMW-badged models in Britain as part of any future expansion of its Cowley plant. Norbert Reithofer, BMW's head of manufacturing, [...]

Lawyers argued before a panel of federal judges in Washington yesterday to decide how to proceed with the tangled web of about 200 lawsuits claiming damages for accidents involving Ford [...]

Production at Land Rover was hit yesterday by unofficial industrial action involving more than 800 workers protesting at alleged changes in holiday procedures. The specialist carmaker, acquired earlier this year [...]

Mazda's plans to shift some of its production capacity out of Japan and into Europe has left one question unanswered: why didn't it do it sooner? The degree to which [...]

Mazda, the Japanese carmaker 34 per cent owned by Ford of the US, plans to shift production from Japan into Europe because of the continued weakness of the euro. The [...]

Production of the Rover 75 began at MG Rover's Longbridge plant near Birmingham yesterday, using the first of 6,000 bodies built and stockpiled by former Rover owner BMW. Executives of [...]