Volvo Buses is planning to close its manufacturing plant in Saffle, Sweden at the end of June 2013 and focus producing vehicles in its main plant in Wroclaw Poland. The company said that its decision to focus bus production in Poland ...
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Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC) has launched a new 2012 model Aero Midi medium route bus for Japan. The new Aero Midi route bus features the newly developed brake override system (BOS) as standard, in which the brake function will ...
Commercial vehicle manufacturer Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC) has merged its subsidiaries PABCO and Fuso Tech to form a new company under the name PABCO. According to the company, the new merger will reduce order-to-delivery time ...
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Japan based Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC) has launched the new 2012 Aero Ace MM tourist bus in the country. According to the company, the new bus meets the latest safety directives effective from July 2012, which are based on ...
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Daimler Trucks subsidiary Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) has started the production of its medium-duty BharatBenz trucks at its Chennai production facility. According to the company, the medium-duty trucks will be powered by an ...
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Voith has introduced its patented SensoTop technology for heavy-duty transit buses into the North American market, which the company says will optimize bus transmission gear-shifting to reduce fuel consumption. Based on Voith's DIWA ...
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German truckmaker Daimler Trucks has signed an agreement to supply engines and axles for the Russian truck manufacturer Kamaz's trucks and buses. Under the contract, Daimler will supply OM 457 truck diesel engines and M 906 bus natural ...
Navistar has entered into a diesel engine supply agreement with South Korean commercial vehicle manufacturer Daewoo Bus, at the 2012 Busan International Motor Show in Busan, South Korea. Under the agreement, Daewoo Bus LESTAR light-duty ...
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Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) has entered into a partnership with First Automobile Works (FAW), a China-based automotive OEMs, to form a new joint automotive lab 'FAW-Freescale'. The new joint automotive lab will be a shared research and ...
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The US Department of Transportation has launched a road test of connected vehicle crash avoidance technology equipped on nearly 3,000 vehicles which include cars, trucks and buses as part of year-long safety pilot project. Under the test, ...
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Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC) has reported global sales of 135,994 units from January to September 2012 an increase of 41.3% compared to 96,247 units for the same period in 2011. The company's sales in Japan increased 52.7% to ...
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India based Ashok Leyland, owned by Hinduja group, has won a $6.5m order from Bangladesh Road Transport (BRTC) to provide 88 AC buses to improve the urban transportation in the country. The order, which comes under the Indian line of ...
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Volvo has delivered 36 Euro 5 B7RLE buses with Wrightbus Eclipse 2 bodywork to Go South Coast, a unit of the Go Ahead Group, to be used under the Wilts & Dorset brand. All the new low emission buses are built at the Wrightbus factory in ...
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Europe - A Midas PRO1 proved to be the ideal compact console for Afro beat and Blufunk star Keziah Jones's central European tour. Monitor sound engineer Mark Portlock says he specified the PRO1 for the tour - visiting Brussels, Geneva and ...
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Dongfeng Nissan, the Nissan’s Chinese joint venture with Dongfeng Motor will recall nearly 11,277 Nissan Teana sedans over defective sensors in their QR20 engines. According to China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, ...
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