Report: UAW targeting VW and Mercedes for U.S. organizing drive

Posted on December 30, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Mercedes-Benz , Volkswagen , UAW/Unions The United Autoworkers Union is struggling – and it is the first to admit it. With its membership dwindling after three decades of workforce cuts by Chrysler , Ford and General Motors , the union has pinned its future on organizing one of the transplants. Efforts to convince workers at Japanese-owned plants, like the Nissan factory in Smyrna, Tennessee, have fallen on deaf ears in the past, but there’s now hope that the UAW might succeed at one of the newer German-owned plants.

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Report: Mahindra’s U.S. plans on indefinite hold, Alabama plant denied

Posted on December 23, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Budget , Truck , India , Diesel , MISC Fans of small, fuel-efficient pickup trucks: We hate to tell you this, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that Mahindra’s long-awaited entry into the United States market just isn’t going to happen anytime soon. We’re just as disappointed as the rest of you – with the recent demise of the Ford Ranger , there simply aren’t any truly compact trucks left in American dealership showrooms. We got a wee bit of unfounded hope when rumors began swirling that Mahindra was in the midst of closing a deal with Navistar , a longtime partner in its home market of India, to manufacture the T20 and T40 trucks in a new plant in Alabama. According to the Indian automaker, that’s not going to happen

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Rumormill: Mahindra pickups to be assembled in Alabama beginning next year

Posted on December 17, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Budget , Truck , Rumormill , Diesel Never before has such a little truck had to haul so much baggage. It’s been years that we’ve waited for Mahindra’s T20 and T40 pickups to finally make it to America, and with a dispute between Mahindra & Mahindra’s erstwhile U.S. Importer, GV USA, taking a long time to be settled by arbitrators in London, and dealers filing suits against both Mahindra and GV USA.

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Official: Confederate Motorcycles unveils X132 Hellcat

Posted on December 5, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Performance , Etc. , Motorcycle , Design/Style Confederate Motorcycles has ripped the sheets off of its latest creation, and it’s a stunner. The X132 Hellcat is the latest in what the company calls its line of “heirloom” creations, and the bike boasts a billet aluminum engine case machined from two hunks of 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum.

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Report: Alabama strikes again: Second foreign autoworker has run-in with police

Posted on December 4, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Etc. , Government/Legal , Honda Something tells us this isn’t what the Alabama legislature had in mind when it created a new anti-illegal immigration law. A Honda worker on temporary assignment in Alabama was recently ticketed in Talladega County at a checkpoint for not having an Alabama driver’s license. The individual provided both a Japanese passport and an international driver’s license, but still caught flak from local authorities.

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Report: German Mercedes manager arrested in Alabama under new illegal immigration law

Posted on November 21, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Government/Legal , Plants/Manufacturing , Mercedes-Benz Alabama’s strict immigration laws have helped land a Mercedes-Benz executive in jail. The Associated Press reports that an unnamed Mercedes executive was arrested after being pulled over for a routine traffic stop. The arrest came after the 46-year-old exec was unable to produce any identification other than his German ID card.

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