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AUTOMAKERS NEWS * USA
* Michigan - Spyker sues GM over failed Saab takeover
(Photo by LEX VAN LIESHOUT/AFP/GettyImages: Spyker CEO, Victor Muller outside the company's headquarters in Zeewolde. Dutch car maker Spyker said on August 6 that it has filed a three-billion-dollar claim in a US court against General Motors, whose actions it said lead directly to Swedish Saab's bankruptcy last year)
Detroit,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, by David Shepardson -August 6, 2012: -- Dutch carmaker Spyker Cars NV is suing General Motors Co. for $3 billion for blocking its sale of Saab Automotive AB to a Chinese buyer... The suit contends that GM — which sold its struggling Swedish car unit Saab for $74 million in February 2010 to Spyker — forced Saab into bankruptcy in December 2011... In 2011, Saab repeatedly sought to sell itself to Chinese investors as a last-ditch move to raise funds to survive... But the deal was blocked by its former parent GM, which provided key technology to Saab. GM refused to go along with the move, citing intellectual property concerns... Spyker and Saab Automobile have entered into an agreement in which Spyker will bear the costs of suing GM in exchange for a very substantial share of Saab Automobile's award if it is successful...
* New Jersey - Mercedes luxury sales lead on BMW in U.S. narrows
(Photo from BMW: BMW 1 Series)
Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USA -Bloomberg News/The Detroit News, by Tim Higgins and Hasan Dudar -August 5, 2012: -- BMW, posting its first year-over-year sales decline in more than two years, managed to outsell Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz in the U.S. last month, narrowing the distance between the two competitors to 104 deliveries for the year... BMW's U.S. sales fell 0.5 percent last month from a year earlier to 21,297, the Munich-based automaker said Friday in a statement. Mercedes sold 19,311 cars and SUVs last month, a 1.6 percent gain, while Toyota Motor Corp.'s, Lexus sales rose 25 percent to 18,235...
* Michigan - Ford eyes greater plant flexibility, fewer vehicle platforms
Dearborn,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, by Melissa Burden -August 6, 2012: -- Ford Motor Co. — using its One Ford manufacturing operating system — is boosting plant flexibility, reducing vehicle platforms and plans to increase its global capacity usage by 27 percent in the next five years... John Fleming, executive vice president of global manufacturing for the Dearborn automaker, said he wants Ford plants to achieve 100 percent plus capacity utilization globally in five years. The 27 percent boost is over the company's 2011 rate — which Ford would not disclose other than to say it was less than 100 percent and is based on two shifts...
* Michigan - Chrysler using 3-D modeling to reduce engineering costs
Auburn Hill,MICH,USA -Acme/The Detroit News, by Melissa Burden -August 5, 2012: -- Chrysler Group LLC has begun using 3-D modeling in powertrain plants in North America to help it cut costs, improve efficiencies, reduce worker injuries and waste and problem solve... The automaker is using the modeling, created by Auburn Hills-based Strategic Manufacturing Solutions, to help with the launch of eight- and nine- speed transmissions it will build at its Kokomo, Ind. plant... The realistic modeling of the plant floor is helping reduce typical engineering costs for the $1.3 billion launch of the two transmissions from 4 percent of total costs to 3 percent, said Brian Harlow, vice president and head of powertrain operations in North America and global powertrain manufacturing engineering for Chrysler...Labels: automakers news USA
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