AUTOS WORLDWIDE
* USA - Toyota recalls pickup trucks
Chicago,IL, USA -ABC7Chicago.com -July 10, 2006: -- Toyota will recall Tundra pickup trucks from model years 2003 through 2005... The recall is so the automaker can deactivate an airbag cut-off switch designed to protect children who ride in the front passenger seat...
* China - GM joint venture takes lead in China car sales
SHANGHAI, China -Associated Press/Xinhua News Agen -11 July 2006: -- Overall market hits 1.8 million units sold so far this year; GM knocks VW from top spot... Auto sales in China rose nearly 50 percent in the first half of this year, with General Motors taking the lead, according to industry data reported Monday... The data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed total sales in the first half at 1.8 million units, up 46.9 percent from the same period of 2005... Shanghai GM, General Motors Corp.'s joint venture with state-owned Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corp., or SAIC, nudged aside former market leader FAW Volkswagen...
* Japan - Isuzu Motors to produce trucks in Russia
TOKYO,Japan -Nihon Keizai Shimbun /AFX News Limited/XFN-ASIA/Forbes (USA) -10 July 2006: -- Isuzu Motors Ltd plans to manufacture Isuzu-brand trucks in tandem with Russian partner OAO Severstal-auto... Severstal-auto will start assembling this month Isuzu's Elf 2-ton-class truck at its Ulyanovsky plant, some 800 kilometers southeast of Moscow, using engines and other key components shipped by Isuzu from Japan...
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