Journals By Industry - Automotive Overview

Highlander SUV Exports to Begin Toyota City, Feb 9, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana Inc. (TMMI), one of TMC's production bases in the...

World's Lightest Bumpers to be Used for the All-new Mazda CX-5 SUV Hiroshima, Feb 9, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mazda Motor Corporation has developed, jointly with Japan Polypropylene Corporation, resin material for...

Tokyo, Feb 6, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced the installation of a 9 kilowatt-capacity solar power generation system at the Adachi Odai location of the Honda Cars Tokyo...

Tokyo, Feb 7, 2012 - (JCN) - Suzuki Motor Corporation will establish a joint venture company, SMILE FC System Corporation, for developing and manufacturing fuel cell systems with Intelligent Energy Holdings PLC (IEH)...

Toyota City, Feb 7, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mississippi, Inc. (TMMMS), its vehicle manufacturing plant in Mississippi, United States, added a second shift...

Tokyo, Feb 7, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) today announced financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2011. On a consolidated basis, net revenues for the nine...

Tokyo, Feb 2, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation today announced its sales and financial results through the third quarter of the 2011 fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 and its...

"Area 86" Shops to Provide Place for Car Enthusiasts to Chat and Enjoy Cars Tokyo, Feb 2, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will launch the "86" compact rear-wheel-drive sports...

Tokyo, Feb 2, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia (TMMR), its vehicle production subsidiary in Russia, plans to add stamping and resin-molding processes to...

Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor will inaugurate on February 21 a plant in Bulgaria, which will produce the first Chinese cars assembled in Europe. According to local partner Litex Motors, the plant located...

Car manufacturer Opel, a subsidiary of General Motors, is planning to collaborate with the SAIC Group (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp) to boost the brand's sales in China after making losses for 10 consecutive...

With the end of 2011, Puerto Rico should complete its sixth-consecutive year of negative growth with a smaller contraction or, in a best-case scenario, with no (zero) or flat growth, according to local...

Top Chinese automaker SAIC Motor Corp has forecast a rise of more than 40 percent in 2011 net income on solid demand for German and American marques made at its Shanghai ventures. However,...

HEADNOTE To break from its past, Caddy turned to someone who is different in every way. The woman In my passenger seat says to kill the engine and restart it I do, igniting...

HEADNOTE INVISIBLE DESIGN In addition to Walter P. Chrysler's automotive company and landmark New York skyscraper, the industrialist was also known for his collection of toy banks. In 1938, he told a hobby...

Chongqing, China-based Changan Automobile announced on January 19 net profit of 900 million yuan (approx. US$142.8 million) to one billion yuan (approx. US$158.7 million) for the whole of 2011, down 50.6 percent to...

China exported 814,300 vehicles during 2011, up 49.4 percent over a year ago, despite the slowdown in the growth of domestic demand, with exports of passenger and commercial vehicles growing 68.2 percent and...

Chongqing, China-based Changan Automobile announced on January 19 net profit of 900 million yuan (approx. US$142.8 million) to one billion yuan (approx. US$158.7 million) for the whole of 2011, down 50.6 percent to...

Tokyo, Jan 30, 2012 - (JCN) - Asahi Glass Co. Ltd's (AGC) UV Verre Premium has been selected as a beauty package option in Toyota Motor Corp.'s new hybrid car, Aqua, which is...