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* DaimlerChrysler faces fine in bribery probe
USA -just-auto.com/Der Spiegel -22 May 2006: -- After the corruption scandals at Volkswagen and Hyundai, DaimlerChrysler could now be facing a $US640m fine in the US, as a result of a bribery probe by the US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to...
* GM Begins Selling Chinese Trucks in U.S.
Sugar Land, Texas,USA -Edmunds.com/Inside Line (Santa Monica,CA) -20mAY 2006: -- General Motors has quietly begun importing and marketing Chinese-built mini-trucks in the United States — with a catch.The small trucks, built in Liuzhou by an affiliate, Shanghai-GM-Wuling (SGMW), don't meet U.S. emissions and safety standards, so they can't be licensed for use on the highway... Instead, the distributor, SGMW USA, based in Sugar Land, Texas, is touting its use as "the perfect off-road hunting vehicles." Adds the company: "They can also do double duty for commercial, maintenance, industrial, security and government operations"...
* GM Hides Fuel-Efficient Small Cars and Trucks in Brazil
INDAIATUBA, Brazil -The Washington Post (USA), by Warren Brown -May 21, 2006: -- Some of the best little vehicles made by General Motors Corp. are not sold in its home market, and therein lies one of the biggest misconceptions about the world's biggest car company... On most North American lists of small cars and trucks, GM products are at the bottom, if they are included at all... The truth, as evidenced by a sampling of GM do Brasil cars and trucks at the company's Cruz Alta Proving Ground here, is that GM can make small vehicles as well as anyone else. But the company is hampered by a North American marketing belief that American consumers won't buy those models, and by labor politics that prevents the U.S. entry of those little cars and trucks because they are not assembled by the United Auto Workers union...
* GM closing Saab engine factory in Sweden
Stockholm,Sweden -UPI/The Local, -May. 22, 2006: -- General Motors Corp. is closing a Swedish factory that makes Saab engines and moving production to a German facility... The financially ailing U.S. carmaker will close its Sodertalje plant and use its Kaiserslautern factory in Germany to build Saab engines, an English-language newspaper in Stockholm, reported Monday... GM also is studying the possibility of developing four new Opel models, one of which would be a sport utility vehicle...
* GM Says New Engines, Transmissions Will Save Fuel
DETROIT,Mich,USA -Cars.com -22 May 2006: -- The 2007 version of Chevrolet's Impala will have GM's first V-6 engine with cylinder deactivation technology... General Motors Corp. is introducing 19 new or significantly redesigned engines and transmissions in its 2007 model year vehicles, including a new hybrid system and a fuel-saving V-6... The world's biggest automaker also said it will offer 14 models — or about 400,000 total vehicles — that can run on E85 ethanol in the 2007 model year, compared with nine models in 2006...
* Toyota plans more plants globally by 2010
TOKYO,Japan -Reuters/Yomiuri Daily -22 May 2006: -- Toyota Motor Corp. is considering building new assembly plants in Texas, France, China and India, raising its global output capacity to more than 10 million units a year by 2010...
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