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Friday 28 August 2015
Bill McMenamin takes finance helm at Navistar
Bill McMenamin has become senior vice president and treasurer of Navistar International replacing Jim Moran.
Thursday 27 August 2015
TVR claims 250 orders for "new" car
TVR claims it has taken in excess of 250 deposits
for its new sports car in only the first six weeks since the company opened the
order book.
I4 engine with the performance of a V8
A research programme in the
US is pulling together various technologies to create a four-cylinder engine
with the performance of a V8.
Tuesday 18 August 2015
Ford pushes up 2-litre power, torque
In the US, Ford Focus ST
customers can now obtain an upgrade kit that increases power and torque from
the 2-litre gasoline engine.
Chevy teams with SAIC for 2019 MY launch
Chevrolet, through General
Motors, is investing $5 billion for the development with SAIC Motors of an
all-new vehicle family that will meet the rapidly changing demands of customers
in these markets.
Monday 17 August 2015
No downside to light-weighting – claims Jaguar
Dr Mark White, chief
technical specialist, lightweight vehicle technologies at Jaguar, and an
architect in helping Jaguar to pioneer the use of aluminium body-in-white (BIW)
structures claims: “There is no downside to light-weighting.”
Thursday 13 August 2015
Torotrak sees JCB as ‘ideal partner’
Torotrak and JCB are working
on a three-year £1,100,000 project to move the technology company’s Flybrid
system know-how towards TRL8 readiness level.
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Ohio sees SOP of Ford F-650/F-750
Ford Motor Company has launched start of production (SOP) for the first time in the US of the all-new 2016 F-650/F-750 medium-duty
trucks.
Tuesday 11 August 2015
JLR to open 300,000/y car plant on Slovakia
JaguarLandRover (JLR) is to
build a new manufacturing plant in the city of Nitra in western Slovakia to
build aluminium-intensive vehicles from 2018 onwards.
Navistar: The changing face of MaxxForce
Could Navistar International
be heading towards dropping its mid-range diesel engines following a quiet
rejig of its nomenclature?
Thursday 6 August 2015
GM to build new body shop at Flint Assembly
General Motors is to invest $877 million to
build a new body shop for the assembly plant, locating it closer to the Flint
Metal Centre, which supplies sheet metal and other parts used in the Chevrolet
and GMC full-size pickups produced in the Flint assembly plant.
Daimler-Nissan’s Mexico plant to roll in 2017
As BMW pushes ahead with its plans for its new
plant in Mexico, the Daimler AG/Renault-Nissan Alliance launches a
manufacturing joint venture in Aguascalientes in central Mexico to start in
2017.
Wednesday 5 August 2015
US facility will test “real world” tyres
A new state-of-the-art
facility for vehicle tyre characterisation will begin operations in 2016 in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Tuesday 4 August 2015
GKN to boost driveline output in Poland
GKN Driveline has launched
the first phase of a significant expansion of its operations in Poland, with
the construction of a new production facility.
2.7-litre EcoBoost: where does Ford go from here?
Some years ago, somewhere
deep in Ford Motor Company's Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters complex, a group
of engineers and planners laid out the company's future engine strategy.
GM’s small diesels will compete with Audi
Chevrolet will add a new “clean
diesel” engine to the lineup in 2017, featuring a B20-capable 1.6-litre diesel
already proven in Europe and other global markets. B20 is a bio-diesel with 80% content petroleum-diesel.
BMW to open Mexico plant in 2019
BMW claims it is set to open
its new plant in Mexico in 2019 with a planned annual capacity of 150,000.
Monday 3 August 2015
Turnaround at Vauxhall
Vauxhall claims that its
Vivaro UK van plant in Luton, Bedfordshire is working “almost full capacity”.
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