Toyota and Nissan haven’t made much of a dent in America’s booming pickup business of late, in part because they haven’t really tried. Nissan hasn’t overhauled its full-sized Titan pickup in 12 years. Toyota’s more popular midsized Tacoma has been largely unchanged for a decade. The listlessness is evident in their sales. Titan sales in […]
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Kawasaki, Japan – Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), one of Asia’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, is showing strong growth in Africa. Almost doubling its sales in the first two months of 2014 to 1,060 units from 580 units in the same period of 2013, sales have already reached the level of the results […]
(Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) may reconsider investing up to 20 billion baht ($609 million) in Thailand, and could even cut production, if political unrest drags on, the head of the Japanese automaker’s local unit said on Monday. Toyota is the largest car manufacturer in Thailand, producing 800,000 vehicles a year. Plans to increase […]
A fleet of driverless trucks made its debut in Japan, staying in formation on the road and demonstrating they can save fuel while they do it. The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a public research and development group, rolled out four trucks, and only the lead vehicle had a driver. Driverless Cars […]
(Reuters) – Japanese manufacturers’ sentiment turned positive in the three months to June for the first time in nearly two years, a closely-watched central bank survey is likely to show on Monday in a sign recent market turbulence has yet to hurt the feel-good mood created by the government’s reflationary policies. The Bank of Japan’s […]
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – Feb 21, 2013) – The Trucking Industry has experienced a resurgence over the past few months. The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA -1.45%, news) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.9 percent to 125.2 in January, the highest on record. Five Star Equities examines the outlook for companies in the […]
Japan’s Isuzu Motors will spend 30 billion yen ($382 million) to build new factories in China and India to tap rising demand for pickup trucks in the fast-growing markets, a report said on Tuesday. The new plants will together produce about 200,000 trucks a year, boosting Isuzu’s annual pickup capacity by about 50 percent to […]
