Japan - Mazda Motor Corporation’s production and sales results for June 2010 and for January through June 2010 are summarized below.
Mazda Motor Corporation’s production and sales results for June 2010 and for January through June 2010 are summarized below.
I. Production
1. Domestic Production
(1) June 2010
Mazda’s total domestic production volume in June 2010 increased year-on-year for the [...]

Sweden - The ARN currently links 6 countries and 127 cities across a distance of more than 7,650 kilometres.
“We are very excited to be involved in this very special project, which is seen as the first step towards realising borderless intra-ASEAN trade,” says Peter Sjöblom, Managing Director of Scania South East Asia. “The fact that [...]

KIRKLAND, Wash. – The new, aerodynamic Kenworth T700 is now in full production at the Kenworth Truck Company manufacturing plant in Chillicothe, Ohio.

“We’re seeing positive demand for the T700 and expect it to increase as customers purchase fuel-efficient, aerodynamic trucks as their business and the economy strengthens,” said Marilyn Santangelo, Kenworth assistant general manager for [...]

Japan - In the face of a global trend toward consumer preference for smaller vehicles as well as increasing environmental awareness, Honda has reviewed the increasingly important role to be played by its production plants in Japan and determined three areas of focus.
1) Pursuit of advanced manufacturing technologies for environmentally-responsible products and small-sized vehicles.
2) Efficient [...]

China - Recently, the journalist learnt from JAC that during the first half year, JAC has managed to sell more than 138,000 commercial vehicles-up by 52% compared with the previous year whose speed was much higher than the industrial average growth rate-among 113,400 units of which were light-duty trucks (up by 46%), 13000 units of [...]

France - Renault Trucks is continuing to cover more and more areas of France and Europe with its Fast&Pro centres, to be in closer touch with its customers. There are now 94 of them in Europe, 53 of which are in France. The aim is to reach a total of 250 centres in Europe before [...]

France - Subjected to a test programme under actual operating conditions in Lyon at the beginning of 2009, the Renault Premium Distribution Hybrys Tech has now covered 5,000 km and it is time to examine the results. The vehicle, equipped as a Refuse Collection Vehicle (RCV), was used by the Greater Lyon Authority and SITA [...]

USA - Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc. (Anaheim, CA) announced that production has begun of the U.S. market’s first and only low-cab-forward medium-duty diesel engines designed to meet the newest and strictest emissions standards.
The 2011 Isuzu N-Series trucks equipped with the clean, powerful and economical new powerplants have already started to roll off [...]

USA - Garner, IA-based Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. (IMT), an Oshkosh Corporation company, announced that Elpers Truck Equipment, an IMT Diamond Authority Distributor, opened a new facility to serve IMT customers throughout sections of three Midwestern states. The new facility will serve customers throughout a 150-mile radius spanning from southern Indiana and southern [...]

Kawasaki – Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), one of Asia’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers and an integral part of Daimler Trucks, unveiled an advanced, new powertrain for light-duty trucks. Designed to achieve the highest levels of environmental performance and overall economy while featuring various industry “firsts,” the new powertrain will debut in [...]