6 Jun 2011, 15:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In March of this year, Japan was hit by one of the most severe natural disasters it has ever seen and this has had a deep impact on the country’s automotive industry. This has affected product...
6 Jun 2011, 09:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A very unlikely incident took place last weekend on a circuit in Chiba, Japan, where the Red Bull F1 team was performing a show meant to benefit the victims of the quake and tsunami which struck Jap...
5 Jun 2011, 12:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Taking a bit longer than its competitors to add the numbers and come up with a final figure, Japanese automaker Toyota announced at the end of last week the sales numbers for the month of May. Accor...
31 May 2011, 18:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having been one of the major contributors to the huge dip in production in Japan last month, due to the natural disaster that hit the Asian country on March 11, Toyota is slowly picking up the piece...
31 May 2011, 09:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The March 11 disaster which struck Japan wreaked havoc in the local automotive industry, one of the most advanced on the planet. Fearful of releasing the production numbers for the month of April, t...
30 May 2011, 14:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Facing an increased pressure to reestablish the blooming automotive industry, in June the Japanese authorities, backed by Development Bank of Japan, will kick off a support program aimed to help the...
27 May 2011, 03:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Following one of the worst natural disasters in Japanese history, local auto makers and parts suppliers have been fighting to get back on their feet and resume production at the pre-March 11 levels....
20 May 2011, 11:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A deal that has been in the works for quite some time now has been completed in Japan, where two of the biggest automakers on the market, Nissan and Mitsubishi, agreed to expand their collaboration ...
19 May 2011, 06:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / And now, the fight has reached Japan... After years of utter Toyota Prius domination on the hybrid vehicles sector in the US, the Americans fight back, throwing into the electric and plug-in electri...
18 May 2011, 07:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a long time since the US auto market, until recently the biggest in the world, hasn't seen such a big number attached to its yearly performance sheet. According to a study conduc...
13 May 2011, 13:40 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota Motor Corporation has announced it could scale back its automobile production in Japan, a move that could cost tens of thousands of jobs. The announcement was made on May 11th, when Satoshi O...
29 Apr 2011, 03:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The effects of the twin disaster from Japan on March 11 will continue to make themselves visible for months to come, that's a fact, but at times these effects come in the most unexpected shapes...
27 Apr 2011, 06:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The biggest automaker on the planet, Toyota, surprised the industry by announcing last week that full production, completely free from the shortages caused by the disaster of March 11, will be resum...
22 Apr 2011, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two months after the twin disaster that struck Japan nearly brought to its knees the automotive industry, the pieces of the puzzle are beginning to come together, at least as far the production proc...
21 Apr 2011, 18:53 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Over a month has passed since the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan brought to their knees both lives and industries, and the effects that have been felt in full that faithful day contin...
20 Apr 2011, 05:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Soon after the March 11 tsunami crippled important parts of Japan, the automotive industry was struck by a disastrous parts shortage. With more production freezes than production days on the calenda...
14 Apr 2011, 11:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Most of us pass through some sort of underground passage on the way to work and we are usually out the other end in about a minute if we aren’t unlucky enough to hit a traffic jam. But there a...
13 Apr 2011, 13:32 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota Motor Corporation has told its US dealer network that disruptions to the assembly process resulting from last month’s earthquake in Japan could result in a lack of auto supply during th...
13 Apr 2011, 13:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over a month has passed since the twin disaster that hit the Japanese coast brought to their knees people and industries alike, but the effects of that faithful day are still as powerful as ever. Pl...
12 Apr 2011, 15:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Ford may not have a single actual production facility in Japan, but the Dearborn-based automaker revealed today in a US filing that its earnings could be impacted by the March 11 earthquake. Althoug...