Plant Closings
GM may lead stampede out of Venezuela
April 24Now that General Motors is pulling out of Venezuela, the question on the minds of industry analysts and local auto workers is: Who's next?
MG will stop UK production
Sept. 23, 2016MG will stop making cars in the UK this year after its owner, SAIC Motor, decided to move final assembly of the MG3 from Longbridge, central England, to China. The company estimates 25 jobs will be lost.
Did FCA get cold feet on converting truck plant?
Sept. 12, 2016Fiat Chrysler may be reconsidering plans to convert its ancient Warren Truck Assembly Plant in suburban Detroit to produce luxury Jeep SUVs once the plant stops making Ram 1500 pickups in 2018.
Mexico border skirmish heats up
April 11, 2016Ford executives say a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico is needed to make small cars more profitable, even if it puts the company in the crosshairs of the presidential election.
VW mulls closure of showpiece Phaeton plant, report says
Nov. 19, 2015VW may close its so-called "transparent factory" in Germany that builds the Phaeton sedan as the embattled automaker seeks to reduce costs, a report said.
Notice expected on Mitsubishi plant closure
Sept. 28, 2015Mitsubishi, still seeking a buyer for its Illinois assembly plant, is expected to formally notify the plant's 900 workers this week of the plant's imminent closure.
Mitsubishi throws in towel on fading era
July 27, 2015Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s decision last week to sell its only U.S. assembly plant illustrates an emerging new-world order in car production. Mitsubishi's Normal, Ill., plant was part of a wave of Asian-brand joint-venture auto plants in North America that opened in the 1980s and 1990s to do whatever was necessary to crack the all-important U.S. retail market.
Union effort at Toyota Canada stirs to life
May 23, 2015The April announcement that Toyota will move Corolla production from Canada to a new Mexican plant has rejuvenated a unionizing campaign aimed at the automaker. Unifor is hoping to drum up support for a vote by the end of the year to determine if factories in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario, will become Toyota's first unionized plants in North America.
GM's Russia sales hit by low adaptability to consumers, ruble fall, report says
March 19, 2015Low adaptability to Russian consumer needs as well as the fall in the ruble are the main reasons behind a decline in demand for General Motors' cars in Russia, the government's industry and trade ministry was quoted as saying.
