Japanese automaker Toyota Motor is planning to double its sales in China by 2015 to 1.8 million units. The company plans to sell about 1 million units in China in 2012, representing 12% of global sales. If the company sells planned 1.8 ...
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Mercedes-Benz do Brasil, a subsidiary of German automaker Daimler, has secured an order from the Brazilian government to deliver over 2,100 vehicles which will be deployed in various areas. As per the order, Mercedes-Benz will deliver ...
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Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV), a joint venture between Volvo and Eicher Motors, is planning to invest INR2.88bn ($53.41m) at its Pithampur plant in Madhya Pradesh, India. With the investment, the company aims to develop a ...
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US carmaker General Motors is planning to invest $420m in its Mexican facilities to build the Chevrolet Trax, new pick-up trucks and a new cto be employed in its passenger cars. The investment will go towards facilities in the states of ...
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Penske Truck Leasing today announced it is retrofitting 5,000 of its 2012 and 2013 semi-tractors currently within its commercial truck rental fleet with new, cutting-edge LED headlights from Truck-Lite. Penske is the first and only ...
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German carmaker Audi has acquired Italians motorcycle maker Ducati Motor for about EUR860m ($1.128bn). The company said that the transaction, which will add a 12th brand to the carmaker's portfolio of passenger cars, trucks and ...
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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 ...
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC) has unveiled Canter Guts light-duty truck model which will be available at the company's sales centres across Japan from 15 January 2013. The company said that Canter Guts will add a new range ...
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Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor is planning to invest $358m to build a second assembly plant in Thailand with an initial annual production capacity of 75,000 units. Production at the new plant is expeceted to start in 2014 and the capacity ...
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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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German automaker Daimler is planning to invest about $170m at its Centro Industrial Juan Manuel Fangio plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, over the next two to three years. The investments are aimed at developing new commercial vehicle ...
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Japanese automaker Nissan is planning to build a new medium-duty truck for the European market at its Avila plant in Spain by the end of 2013. The company will invest about EUR100m for developing the model and facilitate plant and local ...
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Commercial vehicle manufacturer Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC), an integral part of the Daimler Trucks, has launched a new Canter light-duty truck in Turkey. The new Canter light-duty truck is powered by a newly developed '4P10' ...
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MWW Automotive, a global design, engineering, and manufacturing company, has started production for the painting and fulfillment of interior parts for the Ford F-150 series line of trucks. The company's interior package produced for the ...
NSW Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) director of customer and compliance Peter Wells has issued a reminder to the transport industry to check loads before heading out on to the road network. “We know the majority of the industry ...
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