While the Toyota Tundra originally made its debut around 1999/2000, it was the second-generation model introduced in 2006 that really made a huge effort to compete with competitor pickups from Detroit’s Big 3. Earlier this decade, Toyota spent more than $1 billion to develop a new Tundra, and spent about a billion more to build [...]
The first-generation Mercedes-Benz CLS, the vehicle that revolutionized the four-door-coupe segment, has officially ended production. The model originally made its debut in 2004 and went onto sell more than 170,000 units. The last unit of the Mercedes-Benz CLS was a CLS 550 with an AMG styling package built for an American customer. The second-generation 2011 [...]
UPDATE: The Detroit News report did not state that Volkswagen will be building an engine plant in Chattanooga Tennessee, only that a decision on the matter would be made in 2010. No decision has been made by Volkswagen as to the whereabouts of the new plant. According to Thomas Loafman, director of purchasing for Volkswagen [...]
For the first time ever in history, Japanese automaker Honda built more vehicles in the United States than it did in Japan during the April-June quarter of 2010. Honda, which was the first Japanese company to build a plant in the United States, produced a total of 236,819 vehicles in its fiscal first quarter. It [...]
If the Toyota Yaris and the Toyota iQ weren’t low-cost and compact enough for the world, the Japanese automaker is considering yet another affordable subcompact for fast-growing markets such as China and Southeast Asia. According to a Japan’s Chunichi Shimbun newspaper, Toyota’s new compact car is targeting a launch date of 2012 and a price [...]
What you’re looking at here is something called a “FireBreather.” Based on the Chevrolet Camaro SS, the FireBreather is a movie car made for an upcoming Michigan-produced movie called Jinn. Movie director and writer Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad teamed up with Classic Design Concepts (CDC) to create the FireBreather for the movie but CDC will make [...]
Toyota announced today that its sales fell 3.2 percent in July 2010 from a year earlier, partly because it capitalized July 2009 on the cash-for-clunkers program. “Toyota Division passenger cars recorded sales of 91,066 units, a decrease of 14.6 percent from last July when Toyota passenger car sales under the Cash for Clunkers program were [...]
It’s been a year since Chrysler Group adopted Fiat S.p.A.’s production system, but it has already started to manifest itself in improvement in manufacturing efficiency. Compared to ’09, Chrysler’s assembly plants are expected to improve this year with an 8% decline in operating costs and 30% decline in workplace injury. The Fiat system works primarily [...]
A lawsuit filed on Monday claims that Toyota knew about the sudden acceleration problems in its vehicles as far back as 2003, but concealed the defects from consumers and officials. The suit makes the claim that the electronic throttle is to blame for the acceleration issues. The suit seeks class-action status in U.S. District Court [...]
Nissan has filed trademarks for vehicles that will carry the badges JX20, JX25, JX25h, and JX30, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. While we have no idea what the J or the numbers after that stand for, Infiniti says that it is standard practice for it cover the bases with nomenclature since so [...]
