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Jun 18, 2013

Cars production will hit around 16.1 million units this year in * USA

* Michigan - For the first time in a decade, auto production yops 16 million vehicles

(Photo: 2013 Cadillac ATS sedan begins production at the Lansing Grand River assembly plant)
Detroit,MICH,USA -The Car Connection, by Richard Read -Jun 17, 2013: -- Before 2008, the international economic meltdown, auto companies weren't known for being efficient. Sibling brands overlapped, cannibalizing sales. Production was fragmented, with little thought given to manufacturing vehicles for multiple markets with the greatest of ease... The Great Recession changed all that... In the auto industry, that meant shuttering many brands and streamlining production... According to AutoNews, vehicle production in North America will hit around 16.1 million units this year, up from 15.4 million in 2012. The last time we crossed the 16 million mark was in 2002, when we reached 16.4... CEOs are keen to keep this tidy momentum going. Most appear hesitant to build new production facilities, opting instead to maximize production at existing sites by adding shifts and boosting efficiency. According to an analyst at IHS Automotive, that strategy should be fine at least until the end of the decade, when the industry could be flirting with production of 18 million vehicles per year in North America...

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