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REPORT: BMW, Mini to let Mercedes-Benz inspect, prep its vehicles at port

The Mercedes-Benz Baltimore vehicle process center has secured a five-year contract to inspect, process, and repair pre-delivery BMW and Mini vehicles arriving in the United States. It's a deal that makes economic sense for both companies, say that automakers. BMW models currently arrive in Charleston, South Carolina, and are shipped to nearby Spartanburg (home of BMWs assembly plant) for inspection and pre-delivery work. That plant is "no longer appropriate" once the X3 starts production next year, says Jim O'Donnell, president of BMW ... Read more →

REPORT: Two plants saved from closing under new GM/UAW agreement Jonathon Ramsey

According to the Detroit Free Press, the 14 plants that General Motors is expected to announce for closure on Monday was going to be 16 plants until the UAW got its way on Capitol Hill. The union ...

Mercedes offers buyouts to all Alabama workers Michael Harley

Nearly 4,000 employees of the Mercedes-Benz assembly plant in Vance, Alabama, are being offered buyouts in advance of another expected round of production cuts at the facility in January. The Vance ...

Next Volkswagen Passat could be built Stateside Michael Harley

Following-up on last week's announcement that Volkswagen was looking at Alabama for a new manufacturing facility, the German automaker's management board is expected to make their final recommendation ...

California law proposes ban on lap pets in car Damon Lavrinc

Drivers give in to a lot of distractions behind the wheel. Phone calls, eating, drinking, and slapping the kids around are one thing, but something that's always irked us is drivers traveling with ...

Toyota may move all Tundra production to Texas 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the 2007 Toyota Tundra Limited As of today, production of the Tundra full-size pickup is split between Toyota's facility in Princeton, Indiana, and the automaker's brand new San Antonio plant in Texas. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Toyota is ...

US-market Alfas could be built in Mexico 1 year ago on Autoblog

Alfa Romeo is returning to the US market in about a year, offering the zooty 8C Competizione and 8C Spider atop a range of less spectacular offerings. While the top-end 8Cs will probably be Italian emigres, the 149 and 169 sedans could be put together in Mexico. Alfa doesn't have a hard and fast ...

Goodbye, Chrysler Crossfire 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Chrysler Crossfire was one of those unfortunate exercises in style-over-substance. What's worse is that its style was somewhat questionable, garnering reactions from "oh, that's interesting" to "make it stop, please make it stop". Well, Chrysler finally listened to the latter, and here at ...

VW may build factory in the U.S. 2 years ago on Autoblog

One of the problems with being an import car maker at the lower end of the automotive market is an increased sensitivity to currency exchange rate fluctuations. This is particularly problematic if the carmaker doesn't have a government willing to make currency adjustments the way Japan regularly ...

Volvo says it won't be building in North America 2 years ago on Autoblog

There have been periodic rumors of a United States assembly plant for Volvo cars since at least the early 1980s. There was a North American construction arm of the Swedish carmaker, situated in Nova Scotia, but that plant has been shuttered for several years now. Volvo CEO Fredrik Arp has told ...

A tour of GM's Bowling Green Assembly Plant 2 years ago on Autoblog

click the above image to view our tour of the Bowling Green Assembly Plant Across the street from the National Corvette Museum is the Bowling Green Assembly Plant. Located in the green wilds of central-southern Kentucky, it proudly proclaims itself "Home of the Corvette and XLR." Fifty thousand ...

First Subaru Camry rolls off the line in Indiana 2 years ago on Autoblog

No, we're not confused - Subaru's parent company, Fuji Heavy Industries, and Toyota cooked up a deal in 2006 that creates more production capacity for the Camry by having Subaru of Indiana Automotive begin building the country's best selling car. The deal was one of the first fruits born from ...

UAW hosting town hall meeting for Toyota workers 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Detroit News is reporting that the United Auto Workers union is hosting a town hall meeting for workers at Toyota's manufacturing plant in Kentucky this Saturday. Not an organization known to mince words, the UAW has labeled the meeting's topic as "The Human cost of Toyota's Success". A press ...

China Reversal: Tiger Truck opens plant in Texas 2 years ago on Autoblog

While other manufacturers are hurrying to move factories and parts suppliers to China, Chinese truck maker ChangAn is going the other way. Dallas-based Tiger Truck, the exclusive US importer of ChangAn vehicles, has announced plans to open an assembly plant in Jasper, TX. Tiger's vehicles are for ...

Toyota Tundra production begins 3 years ago on Autoblog

Last Friday the first two Tundra pickups rolled off the line at Toyota's new production facility in San Antonio, Texas. The facility, called Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, took three years to build and cost $1.28 billion. At full capacity it can pump out 200,000 Tundras a year, a rate at which ...

Chrysler cutting output by 135,000 units 3 years ago on Autoblog

Chrysler is striving hard to be profitable in the fourth quarter, especially after it announced last week that its Q3 performance would be in the red to the tune of $1.5 billion. To that end, Chrysler will be cutting its Q3 production by 90,000 units and Q4 production by 45,000 for a total 135,000 ...

China closes tax loophole for imported vehicle kits 3 years ago on Autoblog

China has lots of fun regulations that are expressly designed to benefit Chinese domestic suppliers, automakers and the country's economy as a whole. The most well known Chinese rule of law when it comes to its auto industry is that every foreign manufacturer must be paired with a local one in a ...

California to ban smoking in cars with kids 3 years ago on Autoblog

Senators in California are close to passing a bill that would prohibit smoking in vehicles carrying children who are required by law to ride in a child seat. The bill proposed by Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) recently received a 23-14 vote that sent it back to the Assembly, and with our ...

Grade A, 100% All-American Car 3 years ago on Autoblog

According to the federal government, a vehicle with a 75-percent or more domestic parts rating is classified as a domestic vehicle. The web-based resource site Cars.com has compiled the 'American Made Index' that lists the top ten vehicles made in the U.S. according to where their parts came from, ...

TGIF: How the BMW Z4 is made 3 years ago on Autoblog

The National Association of Manufacturers brings us an educational treat for a fun TGIF - an insider's look at manufacturing the BMW Z4. The vehicle, built at Bimmer's plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, gets the soup-to-nuts treatment from NAM with subject matter and ...

Nissan to build fewer Titans 3 years ago on Autoblog

Nissan North America has decided to cut production of the Nissan Titan, which is pushing a 100-day pileup and is down over 20,000 units and 1.7 percent as compared with last year. Nissan says it would like to lessen the supply to 75 days or less. The problem is one often experienced by automakers ...

Japanese surpass GM in North American vehicle production 3 years ago on Autoblog

It’s official: Japanese automakers build more cars and trucks in North America than General Motors. The milestone has been expected for some time now, with manufacturers like Toyota and Honda churning out some 4.8 million vehicles in the region in 2005, and GM whittling away its totals to ...






Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too! 

 
 

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