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; [...]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has reached a basic agreement with BW Offshore Limited, one of the world’s leading FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) contractors, to collaborate in the marketing of FPSO for liquefied natural gas (LNG). The two companies plan to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU). The collaboration of the two companies [...]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has completed its first unit of the “STG (Super Turbo Generating) System,” a marine-use, high-efficiency, combined power generation system that utilizes waste heat and the exhaust gas from diesel engines. Incorporating the company’s proprietary controlling system, which enables optimized power generation by both exhaust-gas power and steam turbines, the STG [...]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has established a Representative Office in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The launch of the Abu Dhabi Representative Office, which begins operations on April 1, is aimed at increasing the company’s business opportunities in Abu Dhabi, which is currently promoting large-scale renewable energy development projects [...]

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 [...]

Foremost Insurance Pegram Ducati’s Larry Pegram dominated Saturday’s Auto Club Speedway American Superbike race- a thriller that came down to the last lap.
Mounted on a Ducati 1198R, Pegram battled the field from start to finish. The owner of the Foremost Insurance-backed team waited until the last two laps in order to make his move on [...]

Racing at Portimao today proved difficult for the Ducati Xerox riders Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio, who had to fight hard for points, having started the races from the fifth row of the grid; the two races brought identical results for the factory riders, two eighth place finishes for Nori, two 11th places for Michel.
In [...]

The Motor Sports Association (MSA) has issued regulation clarifications regarding two current crash helmet standards.
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has announced that it will cease to recognise the BS 6658-85 Type A/FR helmet standard after December 31, 2013.
However, at its most recent meeting earlier this month, the Motor Sports Council agreed to extend the [...]

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) have reached an agreement on the supply under license of hybrid technology used in the Toyota Prius.
Leveraging this agreement, Mazda plans to combine the hybrid system with its next-generation SKY* engine that is currently under development, and develop and manufacture a hybrid vehicle in Japan. Mazda [...]

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 [...]