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...Cox Automotive has estimated that 300,000 to 500,000 cars and trucks could be lost due to the flooding, based on figures for vehicles lost during hurricanes Katrina and Sandy....
...Mr Fischer says other car plants in the US south appear to be reaping efficiencies producing 300,000-450,000 vehicles a year. That is above the 152,400 Passats Chattanooga produced last year....
...thousands of jobs to build its vehicles in the US....
...After all, the United States had once been the world’s number one oil exporter....
...The company plans to build further models off the same platform as the Focus, and expects these vehicles to account for sales of more than 2m – serious numbers in an industry that sells about 70m units a...
...“We laid out objectives that I don’t think any other car company in the United States has,” he said. “We’ve laid out a plan till 2014....
...While Chrysler dealers sold about 1m new vehicles last year, fewer than half the number of Toyota outlets sold 1.6m vehicles....
...Ford has more than halved its global production supply base from 3,300 companies in 2004 to 1,600 last year. It aims to bring the number down to 750, but has not set a target date....
...“He could see around corners,” says Edward Matthews, one of Mr Greenberg’s most senior lieutenants at AIG and then at C.V. Starr, his investment vehicle....
...Chrysler tapped into Cerberus’s expertise in hedging to design its “Let’s refuel America” promotion, which offers petrol to buyers of its vehicles at a fixed price of $2.99 a gallon, well below the market...
...Toyota sold fewer than 300 vehicles in the US in its first year. Fifty years later, Toyota has replaced Ford as America’s second-largest carmaker....
...i.e. trucks, engines, hasn’t suffered a single iota of a blip since this nonsense started in the United States....
...“Chrysler commands a significant part of the US vehicle market,” says Mr Lawson....
...By 2010, he predicts, the number of vehicle models on sale in the US will have grown from 215 four years ago to more than 300 as the competitive pressure ratchets up....
...While they haven’t recently had a “four bagger” like the Chrysler 300, maybe, just maybe one of the upcoming models could be a really big hit. 3....
...GM estimated that 42 convertible models would be on the road in 2009, almost double the number at the start of the decade....
...Based on carmakers' current plans, AutoPacific projects that the number of models on sale in North America will grow to more than 300 in 2010. The flood of supply coincides with slowing demand....
...The Chrysler 300 sedan, already selling like hot cakes, was named this week as the Most Washable Car of 2005....
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