China has levied a record fine totalling 1.24bn yuan ($202m; £121m) on twelve Japanese car parts companies for price-fixing. The country’s anti-monopoly regulator said the companies were found to have colluded to reduce competition. Japan’s Sumitomo Electric and Mitsubishi Electric were among the firms that received the heaviest fines. The ruling comes amid a crackdown […]
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BANGKOK—Auto sales and production in Thailand tumbled again last month amid the nation’s political turmoil. April production totaled 126,730 vehicles, down 25.6% from a year earlier, said the Federation of Thai Industries’ Automotive Industry Club—and a slight easing from March’s 29% contraction. Sales were off 33% over the year-earlier level to 73,242 vehicles. For the […]
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 […]
Nissan Motor Co. (7201), Japan’s second-biggest carmaker, forecast profit that missed analysts’ estimates, as intensifying competition drives up incentive spending in the U.S. Net income will climb 4 percent to 405 billion yen ($4 billion) in the year ending March 31, the highest since the 2008 fiscal year, the Yokohama, Japan-based company said in a […]
Nissan has reported better-than-expected profits, helped by the weakening yen and by a recovery in sales in China. Japan’s second-biggest carmaker said profit rose 57% to 84.3bn yen ($825m; £503m) for the last months of 2013, beating analysts’ estimates. It also sold a record 5.1 million vehicles globally last year. The positive results come three […]
Toyota is to end its vehicle and engine production in Australia by the end of 2017, effectively marking the end of the country’s carmaking industry. The company said it might scale down the operations of its development and technical centre in Australia as well. Last year, Ford and General Motors’ Holden unit also announced plans […]
“Behind the recovery at the big carmakers is their pressure on suppliers to cut parts prices. It’s been hitting us like a body blow,” said a senior executive of a company that makes drivetrain-related parts for a major Toyota supplier. At this small company based in Aichi prefecture, home to Toyota and much of its […]
(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 […]
The Japanese economy continues to be improving nicely. The latest quarterly “Tankan” survey — which measures the state of the economy via surveys of various businesses large and small — is out and it shows that business sentiment is at a 6-year high, surpassing levels right before the Great Financial Crisis. Abenomics continues to look […]
Honda market share in the US shrunk by 0.1% despite its vehicle sales jumping 6% from a year ago, as rivals have posted stronger growth helped by sales of light trucks. “Pickups and SUVs are growing in the US market, helping the Detroit-based carmakers… Our light-truck supply was relatively low, but we are introducing a […]
