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    Report: These are North America's top producing auto plants     1328137260

    Volkswagen has the honor of being this year's top producing North American automotive manufacturer by a wide margin with its Puebla, Mexico facility. The factory managed to produce 510,041 units last year, beating out second-place Nissan and its Aguascalientes, Mexico plant by a staggering ...

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    Official: Nissan agrees to make engines for Mercedes in Tennessee     1326202080

    Mercedes-Benz and Nissan plan on working together in the future, sharing the Mercedes A-Class platform and engines in an effort save cash on engineering and manufacturing resources. A big part of that collaboration is now official with a joint engine announcement. Nissan will produce high-end ...

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    Report: Canada lagging behind U.S. auto recovery     1325077260

    The Detroit Three are in much better financial shape than three years ago. General Motors and Ford are now profitable, and Chrysler appears poised to begin making real money soon. That success has lead to plans to spend billions of dollars on North American plants, but Automotive News reports ...

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    Report: Reuse of decomissioned U.S. auto plants on the rise     1323782880

    The Detroit Free Press reports that, of the 267 automotive plants that have closed in the U.S. since 1979, 128 have reopened with a new purpose. Astonishingly enough, 40 percent of those reopened sites were purchased between 2008 and 2010 as General Motors and Chrysler underwent restructuring, ...

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    Where big cats are made: A photo tour of Jaguar's Castle Bromwich plant     1305329100

    A photo tour of Jaguar's Castle Bromwich factory – Click above for high-res image gallery
    All Jaguars, whether steel or aluminum, are fashioned in one place: Castle Bromwich in the West Midlands of England. The factory complex originally made RAF Spitfires and Lancaster bombers for World ...

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    Hummer grinds gears: production of 2010 H3 and H3T resumes     1257967680

    2010 Hummer H3 - Click above for high-res image gallery
    Although the Hummer sale isn't officially official – which is to say, the Chinese authorities haven't told Tengzhong "Proceed!" – it is official enough that GM has restarted production of the 2010 H3 and H3T at its Shreveport, LA ...

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    REPORT: Mini 'Countryman' crossover skipping Detroit for Geneva?     1256561880

    Mini Countryman concept -- Click above for high-res image gallery
    Everyone is getting ready for the Mini Countryman -- including, perhaps, the WRC -- but everyone is going to have to wait, according to a report by those Mini-mad folks at Motoring File. The holdup is the upcoming BMW X3, which is ...

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    REPORT: Labor unrest in India to cause Ford to idle key NA crossover plant     1256482020

    Rico Auto Industries in India makes transmission parts for Ford's Flex and Edge, along with its upscale Lincoln MKT and MKX twins. Unfortunately for the Blue Oval, Automotive News is reporting that Rico's operations are in flux because of persistent troubles between labor and management. A few ...

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    Shreveport, LA mayor lobbies D.C. to close the HUMMER deal, already     1256408160

    Cedric Glover, the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, went to Washington, D.C. to plead his case for the sale of Hummer to Tengzhong. The only thing is, we're not sure why he went. To be more precise, we do know that he wants to protect jobs at GM's Shreveport plant that builds Hummers. The plant ...

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    REPORT: Toyota adding 850 jobs in San Antonio truck factory     1255955280

    Toyota's arrangements for its San Antonio plant are coming together after the closure of NUMMI and the announced relocation of Tacoma pickup production. The company will be adding 850 permanent and temporary workers to its labor force in Texas, taking the number of associates from 1,850 to about ...

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