Nissan announced that it will launch light commercial vehicles in North America starting in 2010, making its underutilized truck plant in Canton, Mississippi, the hub of U.S. production. The first of three new products, all designed specifically for North America, will debut in the first half of 2010. Nissan North America named former Ford executive [...]
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Trucks of all makes and models glistened in the searing heat at the Ararat Jailhouse Rock Festival’s 2008 Truck Show. Truckies converged on Ararat with the hope of their polished up rig taking out one of the day’s categories. The day was a huge success, with trucking enthusiasts and curious visitors inspecting the many trucks [...]
Isuzu Motors Ltd., Japan’s biggest maker of light-duty trucks, will assemble vehicles in Russia with Severstal-Avto beginning in August as the country’s demand for commercial vehicles rises. The venture will have an annual capacity of 25,000 units, Tokyo-based Isuzu said Monday in a statement. Japanese trading company Sojitz Corp. is also a partner in the [...]
New car and truck sales in the United States will drop this year to their lowest level since 1994, global marketing firm J.D. Power and Associates says in revised projections released Tuesday. That means two million less vehicles will be sold in 2008 than three years ago – a decline equivalent to the production of [...]
It was love at first sight for Daroll Frewing and his ’53 Chevrolet Advance Design pickup. He knew from 100 feet away that the Commercial Red 3100 was the truck of his dreams. Daroll didn’t set out specifically to buy a Chevy pickup made in ’53–it was the smooth, rounded lines and distinctive, horizontal grille [...]
General Motors officials said Tuesday the automaker is holding its market share, even though the U.S. market for selling cars and trucks continues to be a challenge. GM reported Tuesday that it sold 282,732 vehicles in March, down 19 percent from its sales in March 2007. Car sales were down 14 percent, while deliveries of [...]
U.S. consumers bought 227,143 Ford Motor Co. vehicles in March, down 14 percent from a year earlier. Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) manufactures F-Series Super Duty trucks at Louisville’s Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain Lane and Ford Explorer and Mercury Mountaineer sport utility vehicles at the Louisville Assembly Plant on Fern Valley Road. Ford said [...]