Lexus will debut an all-new exhibit at this year’s 2010 New York International Auto Show featuring the brand’s most thrilling new vehicles.
This year, the exhibit has a modern and stylish feel, with a three-sided marquee emblazoned with Lexus and a sophisticated black and grey carpet entry. The Lexus exhibit comes with a concierge who [...]

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that today it convened the first meeting of its Special Committee for Global Quality. Chaired by TMC President Akio Toyoda, the committee will spearhead reforms to further instill the company’s operations throughout the world with a customer perspective.
The committee members include newly appointed chief quality officers for North America; [...]

General Motors Co. (GM) today announced a five-year partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help develop the potential of the jatropha plant as a sustainable biofuel energy crop. Traditionally considered a weed, jatropha plants produce an oil that can be refined into biodiesel.
The goal of the project is to demonstrate that [...]

The General Motors Design Dome is one of those places very few people get to visit. And the products seen there often are not seen in public until years later.
But a group of Gold Key winners from the Southeast Michigan region of the Scholastic Art Awards recently got an up close and personal look at [...]

General Motors Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell today announced a number of key finance leadership changes aimed at further advancing the company’s financial progress and preparing for its return to public ownership in the future.
Walter Borst is named GM vice president and Promark Global Advisors, Inc. chief executive officer, reporting to Liddell, [...]

Cadillac today unveiled the CTS-V Sport Wagon show car, foreshadowing the next addition to its V-Series performance line. It combines the performance and luxury of the landmark CTS-V Sport Sedan with the dramatic design of the CTS Sport Wagon.
“The CTS-V Sport Wagon is a natural extension of both the V-Series and the CTS lineup, offering [...]

Louis Chevrolet, a race car designer and driver, co-founded Chevrolet with Billy Durant, establishing a racing heritage at the company’s inception. That legacy continues today in many forms of motorsports, including the Chevrolet Cruze competing in the popular World Touring Car Championship (WTCC).
This year is the first full racing season for the Cruze, which was [...]

The first part of this article in the previous issue looked at the interdependence between the automobile and auto supporting industries. Continuing with the second and last part, News from JAMA Asia introduces the new challenges facing the industries, brought about by new trends in the operating environment.
The Auto Supporting Industry in ASEAN
There were three [...]

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic sales, and export results for the month of February 2010.
ProductionProduction in Japan for the month of February 2010 experienced a year-on-year increase for the second consecutive month (since January 2010).
Production in regions outside of Japan experienced a year-on-year increase for the fourth consecutive [...]

Regardless of the 5000 km of testing completed during the winter and the excellent start of the WTCC season in Curitiba, the development program of the Cruze continues relentlessly. The Chevrolet team spent two days testing in Pembrey on Wednesday and Thursday, with Alain Menu at the wheel of the Cruze.
The Swiss driver completed the [...]