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Mazda to End Production in the U.S.
Asahi Shimbun ^
| 06/05/2011
| Yukio Hashimoto and Kazuhito Suwa
Posted on 06/06/2011 2:38:29 PM PDT by ReagansShinyHair
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To: ReagansShinyHair
I think ford will do just fine without mazda. I don’t understand why mazda would prefer to build their cars in japan. High labor costs there too and high shipping costs. They should build in mexico. cheap labor costs and not-to-bad shipping costs and virtually nonexistent environmental regs.
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posted on
06/06/2011 3:33:35 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: ReagansShinyHair
In fiscal 2010, AutoAlliance International produced only 45,000 Mazda vehicles, less than 40 percent of its annual capacity of 120,000 units, because of poor sales.
The company plans to build a factory in Mexico...
Seems like the problem is near the top. I'm sure Mexican labor will help with the brand issue... /s
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posted on
06/06/2011 3:35:30 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: ReagansShinyHair
Can the NLRB rule that Mazda CAN’T close their operations?
That would seem to be the natural corollary after their ruling that Boeing can’t open a new plant in S. Carolina.
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posted on
06/06/2011 3:39:52 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: taildragger
All this speculation and just over a buck will get me a cup of Dunkin Donuts Coffee... I had a 2000 Mustang convertible. The seats were the most uncomfortable of any car I've ever owned.
People in Illinois will be lacking their highway construction workers coming up soon (Hope and Change effective now in Obamaland and Rahmvllle). Wonder how many of those affected will vote Obama in 2012?:
Illinois highway construction halt could mean 52,000 layoffs
About 31,000 construction workers will be laid off starting June 17, according to a construction industry source.
Another 21,000 layoffs are anticipated from the shutdown of hundreds of other capital construction projects, ranging from high-speed rail to drinking water and wastewater projects, according to a memo prepared by the governor's office.
To: AliVeritas
This imaginably produces a good smokescreen for the Obama CREEP: Obama can claim (accurately or otherwise) that Mazda is withdrawing its factory back to Japan to provide more domestic jobs to help try to solve the Fukushima crisis.
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posted on
06/06/2011 3:43:05 PM PDT
by
SteveH
(First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
To: ReagansShinyHair
If GM had died as so many on this board wished, hoped and prayed for, and if Ford had died as many others as well hoped for, all of the transplants would pack up and leave the United States. The Japanese Car companies really don't want to be in the United States. They would much rather build cars in Japan and ship them to the US. It was only policies set forth in the Reagan administration that forced the Japanese to Manufacture (really assemble) in the US.
Without the leverage of Ford and GM, the transplants would move back to Japan very quickly and we would have no auto industry. Even the Germans and the Koreans would leave as well.
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posted on
06/06/2011 3:47:40 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough.)
To: ReagansShinyHair
No big loss, considering that Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai/Kia, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and now Volkswagen still have major operations here.
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posted on
06/06/2011 3:49:16 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: MamaDearest
MD....
The new Mustang Convertible is light years beyond your 2000, It is now a BMW eater world class Sports Car. I have a Ford Enganeer friend that has a brand new one and it is amazing. The design queue's to honor the car's history are quite subtle yet beautiful.
On the Obama jobs, that sounds about right, "Porkulus" money is drying up and I don't think a GOP House will let him piss away another almost 1 Trillion on Utopian Fund Transfers. And I don't see how QE3 will get these jobs back either. Buckle up, it is going to get rough.
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posted on
06/06/2011 3:49:40 PM PDT
by
taildragger
(( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
To: ReagansShinyHair
Mazda made in Mexico will be called the Mazda Mordida.
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posted on
06/06/2011 3:54:07 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: truthguy
Tell that nonensense to the folks here in the USA building Toyotas by the thousands. The cars are not just assembled here. The Toyota Camry is the most American content car available
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posted on
06/06/2011 4:10:13 PM PDT
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: ReagansShinyHair
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posted on
06/06/2011 4:10:42 PM PDT
by
Usually_Disappointed
(I think the tree of liberty is getting thirsty...)
To: Figment
Tell that nonensense to the folks here in the USA building Toyotas by the thousands. The cars are not just assembled here. The Toyota Camry is the most American content car available
I'll tell it to anyone capable of discerning the truth. Toyota does not want to be here. We jammed it down their throats. Most Americans working for the Japanese Manufactures are doing low tech final assembly. It's basic grunt work. It kinda like getting those Christmas gifts with "some assembly required".
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posted on
06/06/2011 4:31:17 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough.)
To: ReagansShinyHair
What he said: President Takashi Yamanouchi has said: “I want to fundamentally solve the problems that Mazda is saddled with (such as the U.S. operations).”
What he meant: President Takashi Yamanouchi has said: “I want to fundamentally solve the problems that Mazda is saddled with (such as the frigging UNIONS!).”
I suppose taking your bat and ball and going home is one way to break the unions.
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posted on
06/06/2011 4:40:17 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Think you know hardship? Ha! Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
To: truthguy
Ever hear of Bodine Aluminum? How about MOST? Egines, transmissions, bodys are all made in the USA. Your “assembled here “ argument is about twenty years outdated
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posted on
06/06/2011 4:54:38 PM PDT
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: mamelukesabre
I dont understand why mazda would prefer to build their cars in japan. The article says they're considering factories in Mexico, India, and Russia.
To: truthguy
Toyota does not want to be here.
Who's stopping them from leaving?
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posted on
06/06/2011 4:59:13 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
( What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in commom? Misinformation)
To: truthguy
I do not believe that statement. When Toyota and GM were operating the Fremont GM plant (known as NUMMI) we routinely saw daily truckloads of Toyota Pickup frames, and drive train components being trucked down to the plant from Benicia where they were being off-loaded from ships from Japan. The Japanese carmakers don’t build the high dollar content parts of their US vehicles here. NUMMI was two things: A sheet metal stamping, assembly and painting operation for Corollas (and the bastard Pontiac that was a Corolla) and light truck cabs, and two assembly lines building these cars and trucks using mostly components that were made and assembled in Japan. As soon as GM went bankrupt, the NUMMI plant was “handed over” to Toyota, and they closed it because it was a UAW facility.
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posted on
06/06/2011 5:17:28 PM PDT
by
vette6387
(Enough Already!)
To: vette6387
I do not believe that statement.
Which statement? You see I've also visited that plant in Fremont, CA and have know those who worked there. Now it's a Tesla Plant, but that won't last long. Tesla is probably not gonna make it. I'm rooting for them but that's another story.
Most but not all of the really good Jobs at Toyota or any Japanese manufacturer are not held by Americans. I know this for a fact. I've worked briefly for a Japanese company (not automotive) and you can only rise to a certain level and above that only Japanese qualify. And this is true EVEN if you can speak Japanese. The vast majority of the jobs at the so called transplants are low tech final assembly. A transplant like Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, etc is NOT THE SAME as a US company and anyone who thinks it is, well they are VERY foolish.
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posted on
06/06/2011 5:28:46 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough.)
To: OldMissileer
I suspect the UAW will finally crap out when imported Chinese cars arrive here in mass quantities. And with China holding so much of the debt, there’s nobody in the US govt that’s gonna tell them they can’t import.
To: vette6387
I was told the same thing about steel mills. When the japanese companies started buying up american steel mills, all the top engineering positions were japanese men. no americans allowed.
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posted on
06/06/2011 6:14:09 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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