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Japanese Parts Paralysis: 35 Miles From The Fukushima Reactor, Nissan Wants...

In the face of hysteria about radiation that drowns out the true death and destruction in Japan, Renault and Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn toured the earthquake-damaged Nissan engine plant in Iwaki. Iwaki...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Tsunami Reaches U.S. Workshops

The first waves of the Japanese tsunami are reaching consumers at American shores. Oddly, some of the cars first affected may be the ones customers already have, not the ones they cannot buy. Toyota...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Lack Of Chips For Cars Can Cost $76 Billion

When we worked on the Phaeton launch in 2001, we said it had “more computers than a small company.” It had 56. Today’s cars have anywhere between 30 and 100 computers on board. They are small...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Toyota N.A. Shutting Down For A Week

Better get used to this: Barely had Toyota announced that it will reopen its Japanese plants, then Toyota U.S.A. chimes in and says: “We are shutting down.” Welcome to the supply chain gang. Toyota is...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis Reaches Subaru Indiana

Production of Legacy, Outback and Tribeca Subarus in Lafayette, Ind. will pause on Friday, April 15, Monday, April 18 and Monday, April 25 while Subaru sorts out supplies from Japan, Subaru of Indiana...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Toyota Japan Production On Half Rations Into The...

The March 11 tsunami is having long term effects on Japanese car production. Toyota, the world’s and by far Japan’s largest car company, is severely impacted. Toyota just announced that vehicle...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Honda Extends Half Steam Production Into May

Honda sources the vast majority of parts and materials needed for North American production in North America. “However, for global efficiency, a few critical parts continue to be supplied from Japan,”...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Toyota Announces More Shutdowns In North America...

  During an intimate round table in Shanghai, usually well informed reporters were harping on the influence of radiation on Toyota sales. I expected the heads of communication of Toyota worldwide and...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Nissan’s Iwaki Engine Plant Back On-line

Nissan’s Iwaki engine plant is back on line, as this video from Nissan’s in-house channel attests. The plant, located some 35 miles away from the stricken Fukushima power plant, was severely damaged...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Worst Situation Since The War

“This is the worst situation we’ve faced since the war,” a source close to Toyota told the Yomiuri Shimbun. The Japanese car industry is facing post-war-like shortages when it comes to auto parts....

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Japanese Parts Paralysis Likely To Cause Steep Losses

  Japan’s carmakers are slowly returning back to normal, hobbled only by unsure supply of parts and sometimes power. It will be slow going and full of surprises. One thing is for sure: The March 11...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Toyota Europe Up, Honda Brazil Down

The ripple effects of the March 11 tsunami keep bouncing around the globe. The is good news and bad news. (Or bad news and good news, depending on the side you are on.) Toyota said it will bring all...

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Nikkei: Toyota Back To 90 Percent Next Month, At 100 Percent In August

Come June, Toyota “plans to bring domestic auto production back to as much as 90 percent of targets set before the March earthquake hit, thanks to faster-than-expected improvements in parts supplies,”...

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Japan Plans Parts Maker Bailout – Of Sorts

The Development Bank of Japan is planning a bailout found for Japan’s hard-hit auto parts industry. The parts industry took the brunt of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and it is parts shortages...

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Japanese Car Exports Down 67.8 Percent In April

Hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, exports of Japanese motor vehicles plummeted 67.8 percent from a year earlier in April.This according to data released today by the Japan Automobile...

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Quote Of The Day: Japan’s Downgrade Raises All Ships

Amazing quote in today’s Nikkei [sub]: “Shares in Toyota Motor Corp. gained further ground Tuesday afternoon, after Moody’s Investors Service Inc. said during the lunch break it may downgrade Japan’s...

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Japanese Auto Industry: We’re Baaaaack!

  Fresh indications that the Japanese auto industry is getting back on is feet faster than thought. Honda and Toyota were – in numbers of cars not produced – hardest hit by the ripple-effect of the...

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Japan’s Government Wants Standardized Autoparts

When I stopped working for Volkswagen in 2005, they had some 400,000 parts, or “numbers” as they are called in industry parlance, in their central warehouse in Kassel. With each car, the number...

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Toyota U.S.A. Back To 100 Percent In September

Yesterday, we reported that the Japanese auto industry is recovering  faster than previously assumed from the effects of the March 11 tsunami. Overseas factories were expected to be affected for...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis: Bad Bets With Chips

Why was Honda as much hit as Toyota by the March11 earthquake and tsunami? Doesn’t Honda have the bulk of its production outside of Japan? How could Nissan avoid most of the damage, even with an...

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Japanese Auto Industry Loses 1.4 Million Units – Nissan Walks Away Unharmed

Today is the day when the Japanese majors announce domestic and global data for June and the half year. A little more than three months ago, a massive earthquake, followed by a devastating tsunami,...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis, Take 2

Now that the effects of the March 11 tsunami are behind the Japanese auto industry, carmakers are pulling out all stops to make up for lost volume. Only to run into new problems: “Shortages of tires...

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Factory Explosion Threatens World’s Car Industry

A huge explosion in an industrial park in Marl, Germany, killed two. It also could bring the world’s auto industry to its knees “in the next few weeks,” writes Bloomberg. The explosion destroyed...

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Maker Of Strategic Material May Be Down For Months, Shortages To Last Longer

Evonik Industries told Reuters that it will take at least three months for its damaged chemical plant in Marl, Germany, to resume normal production of CDT, and that full production of CDT may not...

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CDT Cartastrophe: No Quick Fix In Sight

Officially, carmakers around the world are putting on their best “what me worry” faces and say that they are unaffected by a sudden shortage of a key component, caused by a factory explosion in...

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Japan’s Auto Production Hit By Parts Paralysis

After a long weekend (Monday was Spring Equinox), Japan came back to work today. Most of the Japanese auto industry did not. Japan’s largest automaker Toyota, and Japan’s third largest, Honda, won’t be...

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First Facts Emerge In Japanese Parts Paralysis

So far, it had been clear that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami would create big problems for the auto industry in Japan in particular and worldwide in general. When asked when, where, and how much,...

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Parts Paralysis: A Shuttered Chip Plant Could Cost Up To 11 Million Cars...

A shortage of engine-related micro control units (MCUs) resulting from damage to Japan’s Renesas Electronics plant in Naka will curtail global auto production, says the market intelligence service...

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Japanese Parts Paralysis Now Affecting China

“Production at a Nissan Motor plant in China dwindled dramatically two weeks after Japan’s earthquake and tsunami disrupted the supply of key auto parts,” reports China’s People’s Daily, citing...

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