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With few exceptions, Detroit's suppliers are enjoying a banner year at near-capacity production levels, content that business won't let up for another 12 months. Output on average is about 50 [...]

General Motors plans to automate their factories and develop an electronically equipped car in the near future. Factory automation will be more drastic while automobile electronics will evolve at a slower pace.

How many more? In the immediate aftermath of President Reagan's decision not to request a fifth year of import quotas on Japanese passenger cars, that is the overriding question. The [...]

358 automotive engineers of Japan responded to the Sixth Annual Engineering Survey conducted by Ward's Auto World. Results of this survey include: 67% of Japan's automobile engineers believe Japan's auto quality is superior to others, 56% believe Japan can build the same quality of car overseas as at home and 80% believe the influence of automotive engineers will increase over the next 10 years., The Japanese Speak Up WAW'S SIXTH ANNUAL ENGINEERING SURVEY What emerges with overriding clarity from WAW's exclusive survey of Japanese automotive engineers is a picture of professionals keenly aware of [...]

EUROPEAN ENGINEERS: German Quality Best, Japan Runner-up, U.S. Also-Ran What country produces the world's highest quality vehicles? That's a question WAW keeps asking in its Annual Engineering Survey that probes [...]

Advances in auto engine technology led by GM's 3-cylinder engine.

High output engines are planned by automobile makers to meet the growing interest in quick performing cars. The powertrains in new cars are being designed for high performance and economy. At present the consumer seems to want performance, but if fuel costs go up again the automobile industry can adjust for economy without having to completely redo product lines.

TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- Sunny skies, booming business nd forecasts of continued high passenger-car sales left little -- albeit some -- room for gloom among the 500-plus participants in this [...]

What are we going to do without Mary?' Tongue in cheek, J. Mason Reynolds, executive vice president of Allied corp. and president-Allied Automotive, poses this plaintive question with an irony [...]

High-technology powertrains, wide-ranging electronic features, independent rear-wheel suspension and an all-new 4-speed automatic overdrive transmission add flavor to General Motors Corp.'s new Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac downsized, front-drive C-body luxury [...]

Ceramics technology, perhaps best illustrated by U.S. space shuttle tiles that keep the craft from burning up when it reenters the atmosphere, is coming down to earth in automotive engines. [...]

The Japanese auto industry's success story will be hampered by lack of growth abroad because all markets are saturated and the domestic market is nearing stagnation.

The Reckoning by David Halberstam; William Morrow and Co. Inc., 105 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016; 752 pages, $19.95. For the jacket blurb on David Halberstam's 752-page tome, The [...]

The United Auto Workers union is negotiating with General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor co. against a background of two unresolved questions whose answers neither side can predict before they [...]

World Cars 1984, by L'Editrice Dell'Automobile Lea, publishing company of the Automobile Club d'Italia with English language edition from Herald Books, Pelham, NY, 10803. 439 pages, $41.75. The Automobile Club [...]

GM goes high-tech in the inner city Sprawling across a 362-acre (147-ha) site that used to house an inner-city neighborhood is General Motors Corp.'s newest assembly plant -- a $500-million [...]

ROCKY MOUNT, NC -- Consolidated Diesel Co.'s 1.1-million-sq. ft. (102,190-sq. m) diesel-engine plant, sprawling across the Rocky Mount, NC, flatland, represents a payoff on what two years ago seemed to [...]

Reduced exhaust emissions plus better fuel economy and performance are in store for General Motors corp. diesel engines in 1986, thanks to a new Stanadyne Inc. product. The connecticut-based supplier [...]