Transport The world is smaller today than it has ever been before. We can move anything anywhere with the greatest of ease and it's only getting better. Your competition is no longer just down the road, it's all over the world and we're always finding better ways to transport things.
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
Lacking 1950s luxuries, the elegant but old-fashioned 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300S Coupe was a sales flop
More expensive than the 300SL sports car and almost double the price of a contemporary Cadillac, the Mercedes-Benz 300S was one of the world's most exclusive automobiles. Elegantly styled in the prewar manner, yet technologically up to date, the 300S was built to the Stuttgart firm's uncompromising standards. Such conservative luxury produced predictable results: Only 760 300S/Sc cars left the factory between 1951 and 1958.
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Saturday 7 June, 2008 10:26 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
The final completion of the £1.15-billion acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover by India's Tata Motors has been a long time coming but it has now been achieved.
All parties have signed on the dotted line and now a new era for the two famous companies is about to begin.
Firms in the West Midlands involved in supplying the two companies with components are looking to continue their relationship.
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Saturday 7 June, 2008 08:22 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.- Chrysler LLC announced today
that its manufacturing productivity has improved by 31.4 percent over the last
seven years, taking nearly fourteen hours out of the average time it takes to
assemble a vehicle, including its major components. In 2007 alone, Chrysler's
Manufacturing Operations assembled a vehicle an average of 30.37 total labor
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Saturday 7 June, 2008 12:18 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Four years after launch, Logan has fulfilled all its promises. Worldwide, the Group has sold one million units of the car in its Logan, Logan MCV, Logan Van, Logan Pickup and Sandero versions.
The adventure continues with Sandero, a roomy and contemporary hatchback, launched in early-2008 in South America and from June 20 in Europe.
Romania, where Logan production began, is at the heart of Renault’s international ambitions. As it did with production, the Group has moved vehicle design closer to its customers, opening a regional engineering center and design center in Romania in 2007.
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Friday 6 June, 2008 08:13 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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With General Motors throwing in the towel on the gas-guzzling SUV’s and large pickup trucks, how long will it be before the other manufacturers follow suit? As the last Sierra drives off into the sunset, the Explorers, Rams, Tundras and Armadas will be giving their last burps on corny Ethanol as they pass the Hummers, Escalades and Aviators that have died of thirst on the roadside. The drivers of smaller vehicles will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief as the roadway ahead of them again becomes visible, no longer hidden behind the smelly tail end of these behemoths.
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Friday 6 June, 2008 03:52 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
The auto industry suffered whiplash during May, as sales plunged for big pickup trucks and SUVs as $4-per-gallon gas prompted consumers to ditch their gas guzzlers in favor of more economical passenger cars.
The strong shift from trucks to cars reverses the trend of the past decade, and domestic automakers were caught with a huge surplus of unsold trucks. Industry analysts say that with gas prices expected to remain in $4 territory for the foreseeable future, the May truck-sales drop could signal the end of an era.
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Friday 6 June, 2008 12:04 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
As automakers adjust to America's third oil shock , I hope they haven't forgotten one of the main lessons of the earlier tremors: Too much fuel economy might be almost as damaging as too little.
You build a new house after the earthquake, and an aftershock wrecks it. That's the scenario auto executives must keep in mind now as they watch customers abandon larger cars and trucks.
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Friday 6 June, 2008 08:01 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
In what is the first official sign of the Mumbai-based tractor and utility vehicle major Mahindra & Mahindra 's entry into the bike industry, the company today bought 100 per cent stake in the Italian engineering and design firm, Engines Engineering S.r.l. for an undisclosed amount.
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Thursday 5 June, 2008 09:50 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
“Inspired by the power of the human mind, the fragility of the natural world and the magic of advanced technology”, Amory Lovins founded the Think-Tank Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in 1982.
“Hypercar™” was one of his early projects; at first an idea, which became a plan that later developed into a company and is now revolutionizing a whole industry, perhaps more than that.
For more than a decade and a half, the staff of what now is Hypercar Inc, first defined a new way to design, and now, together with partners in industry, to build cars.
Rocky Mountain Institute proposes to build streamlined cars of ultra-light weight with a super-efficient drive-train.
It was a long time coming, but the Aptera (recent article) could surely be considered a “Hypercar”.
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Thursday 5 June, 2008 12:35 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Further building its strength in the rapidly growing crossover vehicle market, Ford Motor Company today announced the production launch of the 2009 Ford Flex at the Ford Oakville Assembly Complex (OAC).
“Today, we’re providing still more evidence that Ford is committed to delivering more products people want, further building on our crossover leadership,” Mark Fields, Ford’s President of The Americas told more than 1,000 employees, government officials and Canadian Auto Workers representatives at the launch celebration. “Flex drives as good as it looks, and the Oakville team is going to deliver another high-quality crossover for customers.”
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Thursday 5 June, 2008 02:27 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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June 2008 - GM announces it will close its Oshawa truck plant , with production ending in 2009. The company cites skyrocketing oil prices and declining truck sales as factors in the decision, which will eliminate 2,600 jobs. Although one shift at the plant had already been cut, the other two shifts were supposed to continue on, working in alternating weeks, as the result of a recent collective agreement with the CAW.
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Wednesday 4 June, 2008 08:24 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
IT'S NOT EASY BEING 100 . JOINTS HURT, BONES ACHE and the funeral director's eyes brighten when he sees you. Just look at General Motors, which will hit the century mark in September.
Last week, it announced that it's downsizing its labor force by 19,000 workers. Many believe that even that won't be enough to keep the auto giant from the grave. In fact, GM (ticker: GM) now has a stock-market value of less than $10 billion, a mere 1/16th the size of Toyota's.
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Tuesday 3 June, 2008 12:50 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Honda is adding on to its Alabama assembly operations in Lincoln, building a $6 million facility that will house high-tech engineering work.
The project, scheduled to be completed this summer, will be home to a branch of Honda Engineering North America Inc., also known as EGA, which designs, develops and manufactures specialized production and tooling equipment.
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Monday 2 June, 2008 02:41 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Improving on perfection isn’t easy , but the new Honda Accord proves that it is possible.
Excellent engineering is rarely easy. And improving something that’s already great is always a difficult task. But at Honda, difficult is worth doing.
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Monday 2 June, 2008 08:48 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
DETROIT — General Motors Corp .'s top managers are working on additional restructuring measures, including production cuts, to deal with a declining U.S. auto market and an accelerated shift from trucks to more fuel efficient vehicles, a person familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.
The person, who asked not to be identified because the plan is still being devised, confirmed Thursday that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner and his top managers are working on the matter. The person said it would include further production cuts but declined to be more specific.
Another person who also asked for anonymity had said Wednesday the managers were working on a restructuring plan but did not say whether it included production cuts.
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Friday 30 May, 2008 04:32 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Volkswagen India is looking for suppliers for engine components for its greenfield plant at Chakan, since it is not setting a power train unit. The German auto maker which has set up a plant with an investment of euro 580 million, where it will roll out a string of small cars, goes on stream next year, starting with the production of SkodaAuto's Fabia. The plant spans over 230 acres and has a capacity of about 1.1 lakh. "We are open to sourcing for all areas and parts for engines," Thomas Dahlem, director, manufacturing engineering, VW India Pvt Ltd said.
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Friday 30 May, 2008 10:54 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
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BERLIN: Chief Executive Officer and president of Airbus Industrie Tom Enders has said his company is “definitely interested” in exploring production possibilities in India. “It [manufacturing] is something we would consider. The question is should we consider manufacturing ourselves or should we look for partners who would do that,” Mr. Enders told The Hindu after a news conference during which he said that going global without being present in India was impossible.
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Friday 30 May, 2008 02:36 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
The first production model
of the all-new 2009 Nissan Maxima today rolled off the assembly line at Nissan
North America's Smyrna, Tenn., manufacturing plant, signaling the return of
Nissan's flagship to its roots as a commanding 4-door sports car.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 06:38 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
The first warning signs are emerging that the business aviation sales "bubble" may be about to burst, but large swaths of the market remain unfazed, raising questions about whether a bubble even exists.
Amid an economic slowdown in the U.S. and high fuel prices worldwide, industry officials have been scanning for indications that the business aviation market will be impacted. "We do see signs of softening in Western Europe and North America. There has been a small increase in the used aircraft inventory," says Dassault Aviation CEO Charles Edelstenne.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 08:23 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
Never mind hybrid cars - and forget hydrogen power - because the future of the automobile is electric, Nissan says.
The company's best engineering brains said last week the quest for environmentally sustainable private transportation in the coming decade will be plug-in, rechargeable electric cars.
Nissan is backing this thinking with a firm pledge: it will have an electric car in showrooms in the US and Japan in 2010, with a view to selling the cars globally in 2012.
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Tuesday 27 May, 2008 11:34 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Did you know Trivia -Mumbai India - Material handling equipment and transmission products manufacturer, Elecon Engineering, today said it would spend over Rs 182 crore for expansion during the current financial year.
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