Briefs - VW to build plant in China
Published:Sunday | July 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM
- VW to build plant in China
BERLIN (AP):
Volkswagen AG has said it will build a new manufacturing plant in Yizheng, China, which will start operating in 2013 and produce up to 300,000 vehicles a year.
The automaker, based in Wolfsburg, Germany, said it signed contracts to build the factory in the eastern Jiangsu province on Thursday. It said some 4,000 jobs will be created at the plant.
- Ford shufflesEuropean execs
DEARBORN, Mich (AP):
Ford Motor Co is making a series of executive changes that it said will help it grow around the world.
In one of the key management shifts announced Thursday, Ford said executive vice president John Fleming, 58, will lead the company's global-manufacturing and labour-affairs operations. He is now chairman and CEO of Ford of Europe.
- Toyota says probefar from finished
NEW YORK (AP):
Toyota Motor Corp does not plan to release the results of its probe into complaints of unintended acceleration until the government finishes its own investigations, a Toyota spokesman said Thursday.
Toyota is "not anywhere near close" to drawing any firm conclusions from its examination of more than 2,000 complaints of surging cars, spokesman Mike Michels said. Several US government agencies, including NASA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, are conducting their own probes into complaints of unintended acceleration as well.