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...Toyota paired with Panasonic, while Nissan Motor set up a joint venture with NEC called Automotive Energy Supply Corp, or AESC....
...In the 1980s, both companies were disrupted by Honda and Toyota’s methods of lean production. The Japanese groups outsourced a majority of tasks previously considered critical....
...Honda is in talks with the Thai government to begin manufacturing hybrids in the country. Leading candidates include its Jazz hatchback, HR-V SUV and City sedan....
...Honda (Automotive) 109. Associated British Foods (Consumer Goods) 110. Tesco (Retail) 111. Twenty-First Century Fox (Media) 112. Electronic Arts (Technology) 113. Marks and Spencer (Retail) 114....
...Toyota brought 34 production and concept vehicles to the show, and announced it would launch two China-only brands through its mainland joint ventures with FAW Group and Guangzhou Automobile Group, starting...
...Japanese companies, such as Toyota, Honda, Sony and Toshiba, and a handful of US groups, including hard-disk drive maker Western Digital, must import costly new machinery and await repairs to damaged infrastructure...
...General Motors, Ford Motor and Honda, among others, have also announced production cutbacks....
...Ford Motor’s Kuga....
...Wells Fargo Dealer Services, GMAC, Ford Motor Credit, American Honda Finance, Bank of America, Nissan Infiniti Financial Services, Capital One Auto Finance and Fifth Third Bank, round out the top 10, the...
...And neither can the closest Japanese offering, the rather civilised, American-built Honda Gold Wing. The Victory also has the extra cachet of rarity....
...Having been lambasted for flying to Washington in corporate jets, car groups want to appear frugal....
...Still, at the beginning of this year, companies and forecasters were predicting that Americans would buy 15.5m-15.8m cars this year, down by fewer than 1m units from 2007....
...Carmakers and battery manufacturers say their products will be safe but the risk is nightmarish for automotive groups....
...The solid hydrogen storage system in his batteries is also used by Toyota in all of its Prius models, as well as in hybrid cars made by General Motors (GM), Honda, and other manufacturers....
...Ford Motor has named Mark Fields, the head of its European and international luxury car group, to spearhead a recovery of its troubled north American operations....
...He has continued Alabama’s successful push for foreign investment, with EADS, the European parent company of Airbus, the latest company to plan a manufacturing facility in the state after Mercedes, Honda...
...As yet, only Honda has set up a plant to make cars specifically for the export market....
...Among the most vulnerable companies are those with a sizeable exposure to General Motors and Ford....
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