Automotive News - September 8, 2008 - 49

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008 • 49 Scheduled plant overtime Plant Plant closings Plant Week(s) Units lost down per week x x Chrysler LLC Belvidere, Ill. Sterling Heights, Mich. car car Big drop in Aug. output In August, North America vehicle production fell to 1,070,234 units, down 26.7 percent from August 2007. U.S. car production fell 4.6 percent, Canada car output fell 5.2 percent, Mexico car output fell 8.5 percent, and North America car production fell 5.6 percent. U.S. truck production fell 47.2 percent, Canada truck output fell 32.7 percent, Mexico truck production was down 10.7 percent, and North America truck output fell 42.1 percent. U.S. vehicle output was down 32.1 percent, Canada vehicle output fell 19.3 percent, and Mexico vehicle production fell 9.2 percent. — Debi Domby Stories about these companies are on these pages: AB SKF 37 AB Volvo 17 Accenture 4 American Honda Finance 3, 30 American Honda Motor 32 Aston Martin 50 Audi of America 33 AutoCount 30 BASF T O 20 Group C O M P A N I E S Beck Aluminum 37 Black Book 45 BMW 37 BMW Financial Group Services of N.A. 30 BMW of North America 28 Frank Bommarito Oldsmobile 33 Cerberus Capital Management 1, 37 Champion Motor Group 35 Chevrolet 4, 12, 50 Chrysler 1, 4, 6, 8, 14, 29, 45 Chrysler Financial 1 Continental 16 Daimler 6 Dana Holding 37, 52 Delphi 37 Denso Europe 16 Dodge 14, 29 Doner Automotive 10 Edmunds.com 1 ESPN The Magazine 10 Experian Automotive 20 Federal-Mogul 37 Ferrari North America 28 Ford 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 17, 24, 33, 45, 50 Ford Russia 39 Fuji Heavy Industries 18 GLO 37 GM 1, 3, 4, 6, 39, 45, 47 Hayes Lemmerz International 45 Honda 18, 50 Hyundai 6 Int’l Automotive Components Group ..35, 37 Jeep 8 Fletcher Jones Management Group 22 Keyser & Miller Ford 33 Kia 6 Lagonda 50 Land Rover North America 28 Leesburg Imports 32 Lexus 24 Lotus 50 Mazda 10 Mazda North American Operations 4, 28 Mercedes-Benz 22 Metaldyne 37 Mitsuboshi Kaseihin 35 Nissan 24 Nissan North America 1, 6, 47 Nissan Technical Center 6 Parktown Imports 33 Peguform Group 37 Polytec Holding 37 Porsche Cars North America 28 Porsche Sport Driving School 28 Rehmann Group 1 Saccucci Auto Group 3 Saccucci Honda 3 Saturn 6 Shanghai Automotive 37 Sheehy Auto Stores 24 Siemens Energy & Automation 37 Skip Barber Driving and Racing Schools ..28 Tenneco 37 Toyota 1, 18 Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. 1, 32 TRW Automotive 16, 37 Valeo 20 Visteon 20 Volvo 17, 37, 50 9/8-9/13‡ Ford Motor Co. Dearborn (Mich.) Truck* Louisville, Ky. Oshawa (Ontario) Car (Line 1)† Oshawa (Ontario) Truck 9/8, 9/15 9/8 1,400 Ford Motor Co. Twin Cities (St. Paul, Minn.) Wayne, Mich. truck car 9/8-9/13‡ x x 9/8-9/13‡ General Motors 9/8 9/8 3,925 1,500 General Motors Fairfax (Kansas City, Kan.) Lordstown, Ohio Orion Township, Mich. car car car Nissan Canton, Miss ‡Overtime worked during the week could be daily, Saturday or both. *Changeover †Down for changeover until 4th quarter of 2008 to install flex line and add Chevrolet Camaro **Down 1 day, truck side only Source: Automotive News Data Center and company sources x x x 9/8-9/13‡ Nissan Smyrna, Tenn. truck x North America car and truck production 9/19/6/08† Aug. total† 1/19/6/08† Unless noted vehicles are cars and assembled in the United States. 9/19/6/08† Aug. total† 1/19/6/08† 1/19/8/07 1/19/8/07 9/19/6/08† Aug. total† 1/19/6/08† 1/19/8/07 AM GENERAL Hummer H2 (trk.) 128 Ford Mustang 1,733 Mazda Mazda6 sedan 1,555 Mazda Mazda6 hatchback 0 Mazda Mazda6 wagon 0 AUTOALLIANCE 3,288 Z4 Coupe 2 Z4 Roadster 130 X5 (trk.) 2,161 X6 (trk.) 784 Total U.S. car 132 Total U.S. truck 2,945 BMW MFG. CORP.‡ 3,077 Chevrolet Equinox (trk.) 1,572 Pontiac Torrent (trk.) 548 Suzuki XL-7 (trk.) 202 CAMI 2,322 300 (Can.) 670 PT Cruiser (Mex.) 1,216 PT Cruiser convertible (Mex.) 0 Sebring 776 Sebring convertible 201 Aspen (trk.) 377 Pacifica (Can. trk.) 0 Town & Country (trk.) 116 Town & Country (Can. trk.) 1,576 Total Chrysler Division 4,932 Avenger 1,369 Caliber 1,664 Challenger (Can.) 738 Charger (Can.) 2,154 Magnum (Can.) 0 Viper 24 Dakota (trk.) 109 Durango (trk.) 594 Grand Caravan/Caravan (trk.) 695 Gr. Caravan/Caravan (Can. trk.) 1,995 Journey (Mex. trk.) 3,078 Nitro (trk.) 0 Ram (trk., 2008 model) 0 Ram (trk., 2009 model) 1,117 Ram (Mex. trk.) 2,407 Sprinter (trk.)† 189 Total Dodge 16,133 Commander (trk.) 254 Compass (trk.) 956 Grand Cherokee (trk.) 682 Liberty (trk.) 779 Patriot (trk.) 1,857 Wrangler ( trk.) 912 Wrangler Unlimited 4-door (trk.) 1,062 Total Jeep 6,502 Total Chrysler group 27,567 Mitsubishi Raider 0 Volkswagen Routan (Can. trk.) 336 Total U.S. car 4,034 Total Canada car 3,562 Total Mexico car 1,216 Total U.S. truck 9,699 Total Canada truck 3,907 Total Mexico truck 5,485 CHRYSLER LLC* 27,903 DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG* 0 Crown Victoria (Can.) 1,141 Fiesta Ikon (Mex.) 0 Five Hundred 0 Focus 4,112 Fusion (Mex.) 4,383 New Taurus 1,077 E series, Econoline (trk.) 1,722 Edge (Can. trk.) 1,524 Escape (trk.) 2,276 Expedition (trk.) 574 Explorer (trk.) 0 F series (trk.) 571 F-series Heritage (Mex. trk.) 923 F-series Super Duty (trk.) 2,145 F-series chassis (trk.) 10 Flex (Can. trk.) 1,459 Freestyle (trk.) 0 Ranger (trk.) 1,715 Taurus X (trk.) 494 Total Ford brand 24,126 MKS 1,262 MKZ (Mex.) 890 Town Car 0 Town Car (Can.) 160 Mark LT (trk.) 0 MKX (Can. trk.) 344 Navigator (trk.) 160 Total Lincoln 2,816 Grand Marquis (Can.) 470 Milan (Mex.) 603 Montego 0 Sable 324 Mariner (trk.) 446 Mountaineer (trk.) 0 Total Mercury 1,843 B series (trk.) 76 Tribute (trk.) 183 Total Mazda 259 Total U.S. car 6,775 Total Canada car 1,771 Total Mexico car 5,876 575 4,724 8,955 9,100 80,589 111,732 8,945 40,950 29,819 0 1,564 4,441 0 0 706 18,045 123,103 146,698 175 1,476 4,952 801 8,314 15,996 10,515 89,940 87,226 3,701 22,435 0 976 9,790 20,948 14,216 112,375 87,226 15,192 122,165 108,174 7,969 68,707 69,933 2,607 25,605 27,619 930 11,461 23,118 11,506 105,773 120,670 3,350 46,543 79,732 5,109 43,217 73,482 0 0 9,936 4,073 39,335 59,036 1,056 22,342 24,430 942 18,473 19,340 0 0 65,952 611 9,923 19,802 5,911 101,266 59,068 21,052 281,099 410,778 7,186 60,683 90,013 8,737 93,350 122,741 3,692 11,994 0 10,768 88,707 79,146 0 4,733 15,893 125 1,254 24 571 24,091 39,119 1,484 17,798 38,545 3,648 48,295 80,345 7,482 73,052 34,641 12,929 89,296 0 465 30,167 88,658 3,281 113,661 162,619 5,885 7,408 0 10,110 71,227 124,001 998 12,816 12,047 77,361 748,532 887,792 951 15,697 43,016 5,017 36,118 52,674 2,558 51,647 88,214 1,949 64,298 63,758 9,750 64,831 69,504 4,786 38,638 42,686 5,576 62,452 63,713 30,587 333,681 423,565 129,000 1,363,312 1,722,135 0 4,003 3,810 1,214 1,550 0 21,177 216,964 296,244 17,810 151,977 174,771 5,109 43,217 83,418 48,472 620,316 887,850 14,607 175,868 159,661 23,039 160,523 124,001 130,214 1,368,865 1,725,945 0 0 1,570,164 2,851 44,953 47,863 0 0 5,594 0 0 13,349 21,584 161,392 119,980 18,410 139,090 122,332 2,962 35,407 32,673 8,610 99,245 129,417 7,621 97,345 122,177 10,284 147,727 140,026 0 37,337 77,765 5,689 72,703 117,878 0 250,623 355,360 3,876 26,308 25,301 11,261 151,258 231,627 0 3,435 7,189 7,294 26,586 0 0 0 11,564 9,006 66,558 65,572 1,360 17,478 15,995 110,808 1,377,445 1,641,662 3,471 11,191 0 3,739 26,393 24,304 0 0 21,478 385 14,297 0 0 4,823 7,746 1,722 25,657 34,362 0 10,879 20,117 9,317 93,240 108,007 1,176 21,120 36,482 2,534 23,366 26,305 0 0 4,041 890 10,040 11,288 2,014 25,941 25,100 184 8,712 19,806 6,798 89,179 123,022 400 3,328 4,455 828 12,237 17,009 1,228 15,565 21,464 28,907 218,030 202,809 4,412 80,370 84,345 24,683 188,849 178,535 Total U.S. truck 10,372 Total Canada truck 3,327 Total Mexico truck 923 FORD MOTOR CO. 29,044 LaCrosse/Allure (Can.) 977 Lucerne 991 Enclave (trk.) 981 Rainier (trk.) 0 Terraza (trk.) 0 Total Buick 2,949 CTS (2007 model) 0 CTS (2008 model) 1,449 DTS 606 STS 218 XLR 29 Escalade (trk.) 581 Escalade ESV (trk.) 240 Escalade EXT (Mex. trk.) 0 SRX (trk.) 218 Total Cadillac 3,341 Aveo (Mex.) 1,084 Chevy C2 (Mex.) 1,654 Cobalt 4,266 Corvette 506 HHR (Mex.) 2,519 Impala (Can.) 5,625 Classic/Malibu 0 Malibu 3,976 Monte Carlo (Can.) 0 Avalanche (Mex. trk.) 0 Captiva Sport (Mex. trk.) 502 Colorado (trk.) 910 Express (trk.) 1,850 Medium (trk.) 217 Medium (Mex. trk.) 0 Silverado (trk.) 4,254 Silverado (Can. trk.) 1,956 Silverado/Cheyenne (Mex. trk.) 0 Suburban (trk.) 318 Suburban (Mex. trk.) 0 Tahoe (trk.) 1,016 TrailBlazer (trk.) 1,977 Traverse (trk.) 182 Uplander (trk.) 1,201 Total Chevrolet 34,013 Acadia (trk.) 1,773 Canyon (trk.) 221 Envoy (trk.) 700 Medium (trk.) 237 Savana (trk.) 810 Sierra (trk.) 1,551 Sierra (Can. trk.) 1,188 Sierra (Mex. trk.) 0 Yukon (trk.) 699 Yukon XL (trk.) 122 Yukon XL (Mex. trk.) 0 Total GMC 7,301 H3 (trk.) 440 H3 SUT (trk.) 39 Total Hummer 479 Ascender (trk.) 0 i-280, i-350 pickup (trk.) 0 Medium (trk.) 11 Total Isuzu 11 Opel GT roadster 21 G5/Pursuit 1,028 G6 2,989 Grand Prix (Can.) 0 Solstice 208 Montana SV6 (trk.) 491 Total Pontiac 4,716 Saab 9-7X (trk.) 74 Aura 1,239 Ion 0 Sky 178 Outlook (trk.) 602 Relay (trk.) 0 Vue (trk.) 0 Vue (Mex. trk.) 1,954 Total Saturn 3,973 Total U.S. car 17,704 Total Canada car 6,602 Total Mexico car 5,257 Total U.S. truck 21,715 Total Canada truck 3,144 Total Mexico truck 2,456 GENERAL MOTORS 56,878 CSX (Can.) 0 TL 589 MDX (Can. trk.) 1,202 RDX (trk.) 614 Total Acura 2,405 Accord 6,062 Accord (Mex.) 0 Civic 1,741 Civic (Can.) 4,932 CR-V (trk.) 1,680 CR-V (Mex trk.) 1,263 Element (trk.) 353 Odyssey (trk.) 2,147 Pilot (trk.) 2,131 Pilot (Can. trk.) 0 Ridgeline (Can. trk.) 303 Total Honda Division 20,612 49,636 912,284 1,246,626 16,637 149,588 156,539 3,876 26,308 25,301 128,151 1,575,429 1,894,155 5,376 35,279 33,120 5,700 39,022 59,732 5,511 40,634 19,883 0 0 2,561 0 0 3,144 16,587 114,935 118,440 0 0 22,710 8,330 63,079 9,272 3,484 24,016 39,157 1,256 12,885 13,559 166 1,249 1,015 2,315 20,096 27,523 958 9,447 10,320 220 3,992 5,421 1,247 14,104 14,793 17,976 148,868 143,770 4,985 10,367 0 7,610 43,375 45,301 24,531 163,546 157,724 2,911 23,697 25,893 11,589 63,668 69,730 30,938 202,062
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