Journals By Industry - Automobile Manufacturing

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...

Dong Haiyang, vice president of Chinese automaker BAIC Motor, recently revealed that the company will launch its first independently developed sedan, the BC301, in March of this year, and plans to establish three...

China's homegrown carmakers sold 4,810,196 passenger cars during 2011, down 4.2 percent compared to the previous year, while combined sales of passenger cars Sino-foreign automobile joint ventures jumped 10.6 percent year on year...

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), India's biggest sport-utility vehicle manufacturer, expressed interest in buying at least parts of bankrupt Swedish carmaker Saab Automobile in December last year, when Chinese carmaker Youngman Automobile and car...

China's automobile sales totaled 18.5 million units during 2011, up 2.4 percent compared to the previous year and the lowest growth in 13 years, according to data released by China Association of Automobile...

Volvo's China plants are expected to soon receive approval from the regulatory authorities, according to people familiar with the matter. The two plants, one in the southwestern city of Chengdu and the other...

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...

Chinese homegrown carmakers collectively sold 6.1 million passenger cars during 2011, down 2.56 percent compared to the previous year and accounting for 42.2 percent of the country's total passenger car sales, according to...

"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...

The European Environment Agency has issued a report warning that several carmakers need to make their fleets more carbon-efficient if they are to meet 2012 carbon dioxide emissions targets. Failing to meet targets...

During the first 10 months of 2011, 672,000 imported cars were licensed to be driven in mainland China, up 29 percent year-on-year, according to the latest report released by China Automobile Trading Company....

The French petroleum conglomérate Total has entered into a joiht agreement with Chesapeake Exploration, LLC, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, and EnerVest Ltd. to acquire a 25 percent stake in an area...

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,...