ment of approximately 600 million U.S. dollars. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 70.000 cars at the start of operation and employ around 1,500 workers. The newly developed model will come with two types: a hatchback and a sedan. Its export is also planned. The car will share the basic platform designed for a strategic global model for emerging markets, and its engines and other components will be developed to meet the specific...

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gths ranging from 8 to 18 meters. On May 8, Anadolu Isuzu took over the carcass production operations of FZK and incorporated it into its structure. It takes over FZK's machinery park for the production of metal sheets, semi-finished products, and related by-products, which are one of the important basic components in automotive production and are defined as carcasses. The agreement also includes the transfer of FZK's expert staff in the field of...

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ossibility of joint development and production of their next generation one-ton pickup in the future. Mitsubishi Motors is exhibiting its new compact passenger car "MITSUBISHI Concept Global Small" at the Geneva Motor Show in Geneva. The "Global Small" is a 5-seater global strategic model under the basic concept of small size, low price and low fuel consumption. It is equipped with a 1.0-1.2-liter small engine as well as a start-stop and regenera...

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conditions such as urban roads, serpentine roads, expressways, and NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness) special roads for the site to comprehensively assess vehicle performance. The site also comes with super charging facilities meeting Chinese, European, and American standards, allowing for quick basic testing of New Energy Vehicles. Unlike the industry’s common practice of conducting extreme testing of only hardware at high temperatures, Gee...

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lds as data security, technology operations and ecological services. On August 9, SAIC Motor signed a framework agreement for strategic cooperation with ZTE Corporation (ZTE), a Chinese provider of comprehensive communication solutions. The companies will deepen their partnership in such fields as basic software technologies for vehicles, basic hardware platforms, cloud computing and intelligent connectivity. With regard to intelligent connectiv...

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45Nm, and a combined fuel consumption of 4.7L/100km under the WLTC standard (4.2L/100km under the NEDC standard). The drive mode of the new vehicle is FWD. For the standard configuration, the new vehicle is installed with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip, the Geely Galaxy OS Air Version, and Level 2 Basic Intelligent Driving Assistance System (with ACC adaptive cruise control and LKA lane keeping). On March 21, Geely announced its results for 2022...

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the Company will start taking orders for the Nano super low-cost vehicles. The 4-door, 4-seater compact model measures about 3 meters in length. Powered by a 623cc, 2-cylinder engine mated to a 4-speed manual transmission system, it offers maximum speed of 105 km/h and fuel economy of 23.6km/L. The basic Nano will start at Rs 112,735 at car dealers. Direct sales price before tax and excluding delivery costs starts at Rs10,000. Until the planned o...

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sult in about 8,000 fewer S-Class cars being built in the fourth quarter of the year. Workers manufacturing the S-Class will be reassigned to the C-Class assembly line during this period. On December 13 Daimler released the improved Mercedes-Benz E-Class saloon and estate models. In addition to the basic appointments, there is also a choice of ELEGANCE and AVANTGARDE equipment lines. The BlueDIRECT straight four-cylinder petrol engine featuring s...

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or, has placed an order for 500 units of MG ZS EV. The ZS EV comes with the largest-in-segment 50.3kWH advanced technology battery that covers 461 km on a single charge. GM put on the market its small model "Chevrolet Spark" with a displacement of 1,000 cc with a price tag of 309, 000 rupee for the basic model. General Motors presented the Chevrolet Spark running on liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Mumbai. New Chevrolet Cruze went on sale in Octobe...

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ectric platform of the future. This is expected to cut development time by about a quarter, increase the speed of new software releases and also significantly accelerate manufacturing processes in production. In the future, vehicle projects will be completed in 40 months from the point at which the basic software architecture is in place, instead of 54 months as before. According to the VW Group's Sustainability report 2021, Volkswagen is paying ...

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Corporation (Toyota) held the world premiere of the all-new GR Corolla (North America specifications, prototype), a sports car, in California, USA. The GR Corolla measures 4,410mm in length, 1,850mm in width, 1,480mm in height (including antenna), and has a wheelbase of 2,640mm. While adopting the basic body framework of the Toyota Corolla Sport to enable it to inherit the high-speed stability of a long wheelbase, the GR Corolla employs a 60mm w...

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ped midsize sedan codenamed GP50, based on the platform of the Buick Excelle built at Shanghai GM. The term of the development is from January 2009 through February 2010, requiring one billion Yuan. Cumulative total investment to the end of 2009 will be 200 million Yuan. General Motors has signed a basic agreement on the additional investment in SAIC-GM Wuling Automotive with the Guangxi government. Shares of SAIC-GM-Wuling owned by the state-own...

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. On December 30, GAC Group took stock of the performance in 2022 and the “Trillion GAC 1578 Development Outline” for 2030. Specifically, for ecology and energy layout, GAC Group will increase investments to establish a vertically integrated new energy industry chain layout of “lithium mine + basic lithium battery raw material production + energy storage and power battery production + charging and battery swapping + energy storage” to fur...

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ium- and heavy-duty internal combustion engine trucks, and begin work to convert it into an eco-friendly vehicle production line. By January 2026, the diesel truck production lines from Plant 1 will be relocated to Plants 2 and 3, creating the space needed to install new facilities and proceed with basic construction. After supplementary construction, the company plans to complete the medium-duty electric truck production line and supply Hyundai ...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2026/05/21

uct engineering, performance simulation, and testing and validation. In addition, Changan Mazda unveiled the “12263” strategic development concept and its medium-term plan, which is to achieve a sales volume of 300,000 vehicles and a profit target of CNY 3 billion by 2027. By virtue of the core basic capabilities of its parent company, the automaker will focus on making breakthroughs in 14 core capabilities and allocating resources. On August...

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y 13, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda) announced the February 14 launch of the new model Fit compact car. The new Fit is the fourth generation of the model since the initial generation. In the past, versions were divided according to differences in equipment, but in the new model there are five types (Basic / Home / Ness / Crosstar / Luxe) that can be selected according to the user's lifestyle and life stage. In addition, Honda's proprietary two-mot...

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e decision followed discussions between union representatives and company management. Nearly all technicians assigned to the first shift, which runs from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., were instructed to stay home, while only personnel from strategic areas such as rework and maintenance attended to ensure basic plant operability. Operations were scheduled to resume normally for the second and third shifts. VW plant in Cuautlancingo continued operating w...

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event for journalists, Quincy Tam, a senior product planner at Honda, said the Prologue has not experienced any of the same infotainment glitches the Blazer EV has, in part, because Honda’s engineers strived to keep the underlying software fairly uncomplicated, even if it might be using the same basic software as the Blazer EV. Tam said the Prologue’s production line is in place at the Ramos Arizpe plant, and as of right now, it is unaffecte...

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production of the 5-door model of the LADA 4x4 sports utility vehicle (SUV) at the assembly line of the LADA Priora on January 27, 2016. AvtoVAZ has announced the pricing of its all-new sports utility vehicle (SUV), the XRAY, which is scheduled to go on sale on February 14, 2016. The price for its basic model equipped with a 1.6-liter engine (106hp) starts at Russian rubles (RUB) 589,000. The prestige package model with a rear-view camera and ot...

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tioned target. The plant is the first of its kind built independently by XPeng Motors. On October 24, XPeng Motors held a technology promotion event in Guangzhou. At the event, XPeng Motors released the Navigation Guide Pilot (NGP) function that will be included in its P7 coupe. In addition to such basic scenarios as automatic overtaking, automatic speed limiting and priority lane selection, the NGP function includes a series of China-specific ro...

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