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Sorry suppliers, Ford and other automakers set to insource more parts
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Ford, UAW/UnionsIn this blustery economy, we often hear of jobs being outsourced to save money. The auto industry, however, and in particular Ford, is set to start a...
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Striking UAW and American Axle will sit down and talk today
Filed under: Etc., GM, UAW/UnionsThe nine-day-old UAW strike on American Axle has already halted production at five GM plants and seven suppliers, and the two sides have yet to hit the bargaining...
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Surging steel prices cost automakers $500 more per vehicle
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Chrysler, Ford, GM, ToyotaA few years ago, high(ish) gas prices and fierce competition had Detroit automakers talking about the "perfect storm" that the domestic...
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Chrysler suppliers demanding COD
With Chrysler's cash dropping to $2.5 billion as we race to the end of the month, suppliers to the automaker have begun asking for immediate payment for delivered parts. When suppliers demand COD from...
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GM suing supplier to keep Camaro production going
Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Government/Legal, Plants/Manufacturing, Chevrolet, GMEvery time GM turns a corner it seems to come face to face with another obstacle. The latest setback concerns...
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Camaro supplier sues GM right back
Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Performance, Plants/Manufacturing, GMThe Cadence-and-Camaro saga continues. Cadence, which makes interior parts for the Camaro, declared bankruptcy last August. GM sued...
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Toyota exec says automaker ready for GM bankruptcy
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, GM, Toyota, Earnings/FinancialsThe world's largest automakers are intertwined in a myriad of ways and they need to watch their competitors in both good times and bad....
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Who are Chrysler's top ten creditors? The answer may surprise you
Filed under: Chrysler, Earnings/FinancialsChrysler's top ten creditors are owed about $400 million, and the top two creditors account for nearly $130 million of that. The company first in line for...
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STUDY: Toyota and Honda supplier relations suffer while Ford, GM improve
Filed under: Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, ToyotaIn the latest installment of an annual supplier relations survey put together by Planning Perspectives, Honda and Toyota have upheld their top...
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Tier-1 supplier Metaldyne files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy too
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Earnings/FinancialsTo the roll call of auto industry titans that have gone or are going bankrupt -- Visteon, Chrysler, GM, Saab, Karmann, ASC, Source Interlink -- we...
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WSJ: Obama nixes auto suppliers' request for aid
Filed under: Government/Legal, Earnings/FinancialsAccording to The Wall Street Journal, President Obama has taken a pass on granting auto parts suppliers' request for $10 billion in aid, leaving the...
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Analyst: Detroit 3 to be outproduced by foreign transplants on U.S. soil by 2012
If you think life can't get any worse for the bloodied and battered Detroit three automakers and their suppliers, you're wrong - at least according to a new study from Grant Thornton LLP's Corporate...
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Report: Ford, GM make quality gains in new supplier study
Filed under: Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, Toyota Detroit automakers have a long history of less-than-rosy relations with their supply bases, while Toyota and Honda worked to keep their suppliers...
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Report: Visteon reaches pension agreement with Ford, eyes bankruptcy exit
Filed under: Government/Legal, Ford Automobile parts supplier Visteon appears to be closer than ever to exiting bankruptcy after 15 long months of proceedings, with the help of the company's one-time...
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Saab production temporarily halted by unpaid suppliers *UPDATE
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Saab, Earnings/Financials, SpykerYesterday, Saab was met with a slight production hiccup. The Swedish automaker's parent company Spyker Cars confirmed that production...
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How GM avoided its own disaster after Japanese quake
Filed under: Etc., Japan, Plants/Manufacturing, GM While Toyota has been one of the automakers hardest hit by the tragic Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters in March of this year, nearly...
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Toyota still tops in supplier relations, but only just
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota When it comes to manufacturing and selling a complicated product like an automobile, a company's relationship with its suppliers is...
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Nissan has a North American quality problem: suppliers
Filed under: Etc., Nissan During the automaker's Quality Forum, reporters were told that Nissan had reduced "nonconforming deliveries," a euphemism for bad batches of parts from vendors, by 85 percent...
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Two Japanese suppliers plead guilty for bid-fixing, will pay record fines
Filed under: Government/Legal, Japan, Plants/Manufacturing Two more Japanese auto industry suppliers, Yazaki and Denso, have been fined by the U.S. Department of Justice and four executives from Yazaki...
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Toyota, Honda top supplier survey with lower results, GM and Chrysler improve
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen Before financial Stargate opened in September of 2008 and transported us to an entirely new...
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