Posts Tagged automobile
Saab Restarting Car Production
Posted by alibabarika in Automotive Articles on July 6, 2011
Saab restarted its production lines Friday after a long layoff. The Swedish car company was shut down for seven weeks due to serious financial problems. These problems included a lack of money with which to pay suppliers. Many of its suppliers stopped making deliveries to the plant on April 5, 2011, which forced the automaker to shut down. Now that the Trollhatten factory is open again Saab claims to have orders for 8,000 cars.
The automobile manufacturer has long had financial problems. Production has been in serious decline for several years. In 2010 Saab produced only 32,048 cars, down from 102,915 in 2007. The car company’s line-up currently consists of variations on just three different models. These are the 9-3, the 9-4x and the 9-5. The company also has two new models in development, one of which is not due out until the fall of 2012. General Motors, which owned the brand from 2000 until 2010, almost shut down the line when it had a difficult time finding a buyer. GM still supplies Saab with engines and transmissions. It also makes the Saab 9-4x. When GM located a buyer it had to obtain a loan from the European Investment Bank to complete the deal. The Swedish government guaranteed the loan.
Will GM Be Going Chinese?
Posted by alibabarika in Automotive Articles on January 15, 2011
Will General Motors, the number one auto manufacturer in the United States, be going Chinese?
It may actually be so. You see, just last 6th of November, General Motors has informed the public that they would be building their own range of hybrid cars that are known to be friendly to be environment in the Asian country of China. This would be taking effect and would be starting operations come the year 2008.
Current Situations About the Domestic Parts Industry
Posted by alibabarika in Automotive Articles on January 15, 2011
The development of the auto parts industry is particularly important for the quality of vehicles and innovation in China’s own brand. However, the closed development pattern has restricted the development of strategic partnership between the vehicle enterprises and the auto parts companies. In order to keep up with the pace of automobile industry, the auto parts industry should be further developed. The following is the conversation between a reporter and the deputy secretary-general of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).
Reporter: In recent years, China’s auto parts enterprises have made significant progress, but they still can not catch up with the pace of companies which produce vehicles. What are the reasons?
Chinese Cars – A True Automobile Revolution
Posted by alibabarika in Automotive Articles on January 15, 2011
In 2007, the Chinese automobile market is placed second on the international level, and the manufacturers of Chinese cars start to want to be established and to diffuse throughout the world. Today, there is a great number of marks and manufacturers of Chinese cars, (meadows of 1500 through the country) like FAW (first automobile works), Dongfeng, Chery, Geely, Brillance…. Some of these marks look after their image and even think of being established abroad like Chery in Turkey, which also made an agreement with the Volkswagen group to sell .
Chinese cars in Europe. In 2006, the manufacturers sold more than 7 million Chinese cars, that is to say a rise of more than 27% compared to 2005. China thus becomes the third larger manufacturer of the world, behind the United States and Europe. Thus, this year, the company Asia car has just become the first importer of Chinese cars in France (Landwind and Brilliance), with more than 140 points of sale. But what happen does safety and quality? Today, one realizes that the results carried out at the time of the crash landing test, show that the Chinese manufacturers are still far from the European and American manufacturers. However, as it proves it in other branches of industry,