Automotive News - November 7, 2011 - 37

NOVEMBER 7, 2011 • 37

Scheduled plant overtime
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Plant closings
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General Motors
Fort Wayne, Ind.

Thai flood-related production plans
Honda: All North American plants will run at about 50 percent capacity until Nov. 10. On Nov. 11, U.S. plants will be down for Veterans Day; and Honda’s plant in Canada, for Remembrance Day. Its plant in Mexico also will be closed on Nov. 11.
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Production of the Chevrolet Cruze reached 300,000 units in October. The car has been built in Lordstown, Ohio, since July 2010.

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Acura ..........................................................10 Audi ............................................................23 AutoNation.............................................22, 25 AutoTrader.....................................................3 Brembo .......................................................16 Cars.com.......................................................3 Chevrolet .................10, 14, 16, 18, 26, 37, 38 Chrysler ...................3, 4, 6, 12, 32, 33, 35, 36 Cobasys .......................................................6 Continental .................................................16 Costco .......................................................26 Dataium ......................................................35 DealerPro Training Solutions .........................21 Delphi ...........................................................8 DMEautomotive ...........................................37 Dodge .........................................................12 Fiat .................................................12, 16, 32 Ford .........1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 12, 16, 26, 35, 36, 38 Ford Credit...............................................6, 38 Geely ..........................................................38 GM...............3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 21, 26, 35, 38 GMC .....................................................10, 26 Google ..........................................................3 Hendrick Motorsports .....................................6 Honda..........................1, 8, 16, 18, 32, 35, 36 Hyundai.......................................................38 Hyundai-Kia .................................................35 Isuzu...........................................................38 J.D. Power and Associates ......................26, 36 Jeep ..................................................1, 12, 32 Kelley Blue Book ..........................................32 Kia..............................................................16 Kinetic Motorsports ......................................16 Knapheide Manufacturing Co.........................10 Land Rover .................................................32 Lexus ................................................6, 35, 36 Lincoln ........................................6, 23, 36, 38 Lincoln Automotive Financial Services .............6 Lithia Motors....................................20, 21, 32 LMC Automotive ...........................................35 Magna Car Top Systems ...............................16 Mattel .........................................................14 Mazda ...................................3, 16, 26, 36, 38 MD Johnson...................................................8 Mercedes-Benz ................................23, 25, 32 Mercury .........................................................6 Mitsubishi .................................4, 6, 8, 32, 36 MOC1 Solutions ..........................................24 Nissan ........................................8, 10, 35, 36 Ram............................................................12 Renesas......................................................32 Rohm ..........................................................32 Roush CleanTech .........................................10 Scion ..........................................................32 Shopautoweek.com ........................................3 Subaru ...........................................23, 32, 36 Suzuki .....................................................4, 28 Tech-Line Automation ....................................6 Toyota ..........1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 25, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38 TrueCar ..................................................3, 35 Volkswagen ................................................23 Volvo ..............................................23, 26, 38 Yokohama ...................................................16

North America car and truck production
10/3111/5/11† Oct. est.† 1/111/5/11†

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Ford Mustang 1,573 Mazda Mazda6 838 AUTOALLIANCE 2,411 X3 (trk.) 3,069 X5 (trk.) 2,362 X6 (trk.) 839 BMW MFG. CORP.‡ 6,270 Chevrolet Equinox (Can. trk.) 0 GMC Terrain (Can. trk.) 0 CAMI 0 200 2,194 200 convertible 199 300 (Can.) 927 PT Cruiser (Mex.) 0 Sebring 0 Sebring convertible 0 Town & Country (Can. trk.) 781 Total Chrysler Division 4,101 Avenger 1,409 Caliber 896 Challenger (Can.) 1,057 Charger 1,932 Viper 0 Durango (trk.) 970 Grand Caravan (Can. trk.) 1,198 Journey (Mex. trk.) 2,524 Nitro (trk.) 618 Total Dodge 10,604 Dakota (trk.) 0 Ram (trk.) 4,761 Ram (Mex. trk.) 3,003 Ram C/V (Can. trk.) 48 Total Ram 7,812 Total Dodge 18,416 Commander (trk.) 0 Compass (trk.) 2,136 Grand Cherokee (trk.) 3,808 Liberty (trk.) 1,502 Patriot (trk.) 1,217 Wrangler ( trk.) 1,330 Wrangler Unlimited (trk.) 2,100 Total Jeep 12,093 Total Chrysler brands 34,610 Thema (Can.) 469 Grand Voyager (Can. trk.) 198 Total Lancia 667 500 (Mex.) 1,209 500 convertible (Mex.) 166 Freemont (Mex. trk.) 644 Total Fiat 2,019 Volkswagen Routan (Can. trk.) 43 Total U.S. car 4,698 Total Canada car 4,385 Total Mexico car 1,375 Total U.S. truck 18,442 Total Canada truck 2,268 Total Mexico truck 6,171 CHRYSLER GROUP 37,339 Crown Victoria (Can.) 0 Fiesta (Mex.) 2,938 Focus 0 Focus (new) 5,540 Fusion (Mex.) 6,478 Taurus 1,832 E series, Econoline (trk.) 2,856 Edge (Can. trk.) 3,754 Escape (trk.) 6,679 Escape (new, trk.) 21 Expedition (trk.) 1,424 Explorer/SportTrac (trk.) 0 Explorer (new, trk.) 4,225 F series (trk.) 10,781 F-series Super Duty (trk.) 5,731 F-series chassis (trk.) 153 Flex (Can. trk.) 707 Medium (Mex. trk.) 152 Ranger (trk.) 2,179 Total Ford division 55,450 MKS 276 MKZ (Mex.) 972 Town Car (Can.) 0 Mark LT (trk.) 0 MKT (Can. trk.) 155 MKX (Can. trk.) 695 Navigator (trk.) 172 Total Lincoln 2,270 Grand Marquis (Can.) 0 Milan (Mex.) 0 Mariner (trk.) 0 Mountaineer (trk.) 0 Total Mercury 0 B series (trk.) 0 Tribute (trk.) 0 Total Mazda 0 Total U.S. car 7,648 Total Canada car 0 Total Mexico car 10,388 Total U.S. truck 34,221 Total Canada truck 5,311 Total Mexico truck 152 FORD MOTOR CO. 57,720 Ford incl. joint venture* 59,293

6,667 3,440 10,107 12,250 10,146 3,375 25,771 0 0 0 9,101 825 3,671 0 0 0 8,298 21,895 5,848 3,373 4,183 7,652 0 4,055 12,728 10,547 2,583 50,969 0 19,899 12,549 470 32,918 83,887 0 8,928 15,913 6,278 5,084 5,558 8,777 50,538 156,320 1,769 1,861 3,630 4,998 679 2,690 8,367 454 19,147 17,275 5,677 77,075 23,811 25,786 168,771 0 12,484 0 23,196 28,434 7,574 6,308 13,954 29,345 84 6,157 0 16,857 45,408 23,525 662 2,525 632 8,836 225,981 905 3,845 0 0 573 3,012 786 9,121 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31,675 0 44,763 137,968 20,064 632 235,102 241,769

68,644 29,353 97,997 103,036 94,807 37,328 235,171 0 0 0 88,918 13,065 42,956 0 0 0 91,484 236,423 59,277 43,113 37,897 76,872 0 63,991 141,843 94,122 22,963 540,078 17,390 167,955 120,302 1,114 306,761 846,839 0 85,668 142,369 60,776 64,315 51,647 84,765 489,540 1,572,802 3,386 4,516 7,902 42,207 5,928 22,856 70,991 12,606 204,373 161,111 48,135 761,839 251,563 237,280 1,664,301 66,096 107,073 0 184,953 251,495 66,812 114,011 142,594 275,492 101 49,612 0 144,214 411,903 207,638 7,013 25,556 5,657 85,964 2,146,184 9,982 29,902 10,192 324 4,637 29,357 8,754 93,148 165 0 0 0 165 0 3,977 3,977 261,747 76,453 388,470 1,309,003 202,144 5,657 2,243,474 2,312,118

70,239 37,009 107,248 7,030 83,728 38,170 128,928 141,289 62,127 203,416 0 0 39,509 11,083 32,610 7,829 116,720 207,751 52,130 60,888 38,350 82,445 459 97,379 147,125 115,032 23,295 617,103 15,955 3,264 99,535 0 118,754 735,857 31,914 154,126 9,817 56,189 53,704 50,850 73,878 430,478 1,374,086 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14,168 153,916 160,304 11,083 570,371 278,013 214,567 1,388,254 43,992 59,919 183,002 0 231,962 77,297 107,463 129,828 241,860 0 43,275 74,327 503 384,835 170,722 6,115 37,026 3,239 64,368 1,859,733 14,716 21,326 11,061 847 5,320 22,552 8,834 84,656 28,307 20,301 24,124 4,564 77,296 2,395 7,755 10,150 275,015 83,360 333,508 1,141,987 194,726 3,239 2,031,835 2,102,074

LaCrosse 1,716 Lucerne 0 Regal (Can.) 624 Enclave (trk.) 1,051 Total Buick 3,391 CTS 1,684 DTS 0 STS 0 Escalade (trk.) 332 Escalade ESV (trk.) 133 Escalade EXT (Mex. trk.) 0 SRX (Mex. trk.) 1,814 Total Cadillac 3,963 Aveo (Mex.) 1,617 Camaro (Can.) 1,538 Chevy C2 (Mex.) 973 Cobalt 0 Corvette 218 Cruze 6,348 HHR (Mex.) 0 Impala (Can.) 3,355 Malibu 4,724 Sonic 1,241 Volt 529 Avalanche (Mex. trk.) 0 Captiva Sport (Mex. trk.) 1,544 Colorado (trk.) 1,018 Equinox (Can. trk.) 1,141 Equinox (CAMI, Can. trk.) 3,887 Express (trk.) 1,719 Silverado (trk.) 7,336 Silverado/Cheyenne (Mex. trk.) 0 Suburban (trk.) 1,126 Tahoe (trk.) 2,141 Traverse (trk.) 2,527 Total Chevrolet 42,982 Acadia (trk.) 1,938 Canyon (trk.) 301 Savana (trk.) 505 Sierra (trk.) 2,933 Sierra (Mex. trk.) 0 Terrain (CAMI, Can. trk.) 2,465 Yukon (trk.) 977 Yukon XL (trk.) 771 Total GMC 9,890 H3 (trk.) 0 H3 SUT (trk.) 0 Total Hummer 0 Saab 9-4X (Mex. trk.) 0 Saturn Outlook (trk.) 0 Total U.S. car 16,460 Total Canada car 5,517 Total Mexico car 2,590 Total U.S. truck 24,808 Total Canada truck 7,493 Total Mexico truck 3,358 GENERAL MOTORS 60,226 GM incl. joint venture* 60,226 CSX (Can.) 0 TL 821 MDX (Can. trk.) 1,451 RDX (trk.) 485 ZDX (Can. trk.) 150 Total Acura 2,907 Accord 6,502 Accord Crosstour 546 Civic 3,484 Civic (Can.) 4,045 CR-V (trk.) 4,457 CR-V (Mex. trk.) 914 Element (trk.) 0 Odyssey (trk.) 3,601 Pilot (trk.) 3,010 Ridgeline (trk.) 475 Total Honda Division 27,034 Total U.S. car 11,353 Total Canada car 4,045 Total U.S. truck 12,028 Total Canada truck 1,601 Total Mexico truck 914 HONDA 29,941 Elantra 1,853 Sonata 5,189 Santa Fe (trk.) 1,902 Total Hyundai division 8,944 Optima 2,180 Sorento (trk.) 3,219 Total Kia 5,399 Total U.S. car 9,222 Total U.S. truck 5,121 HYUNDAI-KIA AUTOMOTIVE 14,343 GL class (trk.) 1,150 M class (trk.) 1,879 R class (trk.) 115 Sprinter (trk.) 365 MERCEDES-BENZ 3,509

6,987 0 2,673 5,597 15,257 6,737 0 0 1,688 750 126 7,563 16,864 6,891 8,587 3,623 0 740 26,786 0 14,522 19,745 7,900 2,258 1,514 3,563 3,312 3,331 14,054 7,232 32,254 7,695 4,783 8,592 11,338 188,720 7,797 1,174 1,785 11,488 6,108 8,933 3,795 3,071 44,151 0 0 0 0 0 71,153 25,782 10,514 104,656 26,318 26,569 264,992 264,992 0 3,424 5,767 2,031 596 11,818 27,245 2,282 9,663 16,333 18,665 5,361 0 15,082 12,606 1,989 109,226 42,614 16,333 50,373 6,363 5,361 121,044 7,686 21,695 7,898 37,279 9,066 13,430 22,496 38,447 21,328 59,775 4,740 7,802 473 1,503 14,518

56,048 15,882 16,821 65,119 153,870 54,465 6,515 1,907 15,871 6,955 1,982 73,830 161,525 59,106 94,519 35,969 0 11,208 254,984 29,460 164,722 182,130 20,862 11,349 21,448 30,415 34,174 48,052 144,351 70,026 291,266 139,272 50,123 87,595 109,354 1,890,385 77,106 11,498 21,591 107,994 70,836 92,027 43,884 30,305 455,241 0 0 0 457 0 615,350 276,062 124,535 1,022,861 284,430 338,240 2,661,478 2,661,478 1,170 28,016 46,057 15,074 2,198 92,515 204,628 15,753 64,437 135,523 148,839 38,919 7,500 111,420 104,011 10,256 841,286 312,834 136,693 397,100 48,255 38,919 933,801 101,511 193,158 87,221 381,890 18,440 133,686 152,126 313,109 220,907 534,016 35,168 64,345 6,588 12,379 118,480

64,953 26,130 0 64,795 155,878 55,434 18,503 1,521 20,911 11,300 2,421 65,949 176,039 47,906 81,880 45,504 91,796 14,205 32,244 63,609 153,053 206,566 0 493 24,606 29,047 29,761 5,731 0 59,354 256,140 138,094 50,595 90,081 106,491 1,527,156 69,992 10,885 19,513 109,491 68,716 0 43,364 30,316 352,277 1,183 321 1,504 0 2,507 511,845 234,933 157,019 977,000 5,731 328,833 2,215,361 2,418,777 1,845 31,636 56,787 17,235 4,670 112,173 256,436 30,723 82,863 182,253 168,509 47,421 14,152 101,566 103,379 18,248 1,005,550 401,658 184,098 423,089 61,457 47,421 1,117,723 181 199,463 73,680 273,324 0 101,321 101,321 199,644 175,001 374,645 30,119 69,509 8,522 5,549 113,699

Eclipse 0 0 Eclipse convertible 0 0 Galant 494 1,071 Endeavor (trk.) 0 0 Total U.S. car 494 1,071 Total U.S. truck 0 0 MITSUBISHI MOTOR MFG. 494 1,071 Infiniti QX56 (trk.) 0 0 Altima coupe 476 1,926 Altima sedan 6,454 27,439 March (Mex.) 3,146 13,136 Maxima 1,068 4,691 Sentra (Mex.) 3,539 14,777 Tiida (Mex.) 371 1,548 Tsuru (Mex.) 1,029 4,298 Versa (1st. gen, Mex.) 3,375 14,091 Versa (2nd. gen, Mex.) 1,469 6,135 Armada (trk.) 533 2,017 Frontier (trk.) 1,340 5,217 NV van (trk.) 217 895 Pathfinder (trk.) 814 3,204 Pickup/Chassis (Mex. trk.) 1,816 7,583 Titan (trk.) 563 2,258 Xterra (trk.) 509 1,992 Total Nissan Division 26,719 111,207 Suzuki Equator (trk.)† 20 71 Total U.S. car 7,998 34,056 Total Mexico car 12,929 53,985 Total U.S. truck 3,996 15,654 Total Mexico truck 1,816 7,583 NISSAN‡ 26,739 111,278 Toyota Corolla 0 0 Toyota Tacoma (trk.) 0 0 NUMMI 0 0 Legacy 1,227 5,061 Outback 2,927 12,100 Tribeca (trk.) 181 719 Total Subaru 4,335 17,880 Toyota Camry 800 3,487 Total U.S. car 4,954 20,648 Total U.S. truck 181 719 SUBARU‡ 5,135 21,367 THINK City 15 53 Lexus RX 350 (Can. trk.) 1,560 6,734 Avalon 1,236 5,345 Camry 3,349 14,392 Camry Hybrid 0 0 Corolla (Can.) 4,709 20,216 Matrix (Can.) 474 2,055 Venza 1,496 6,461 Highlander (trk.) 2,386 10,271 RAV4 (Can. trk.) 3,399 14,606 Sequoia (trk.) 417 1,807 Sienna (trk.) 2,988 12,848 Tacoma (trk.) 1,945 8,383 Tacoma (Mex. trk.) 1,083 4,691 Tundra (trk.) 1,299 5,614 Total Toyota Division 24,781 106,689 Total U.S. car 6,081 26,198 Total Canada car 5,183 22,271 Total U.S. truck 9,035 38,923 Total Canada truck 4,959 21,340 Total Mexico truck 1,083 4,691 TOYOTA‡ 26,341 113,423 Toyota incl. joint ventures* 27,141 116,910 Beetle (2nd gen., Mex.) 1,155 4,841 Beetle Cabrio (2nd gen., Mex.) 0 0 Jetta (4th gen., Mex.) 907 3,801 Jetta/Bora (5th gen., Mex.) 0 0 Jetta wagon (5th gen., Mex.) 2,305 9,658 Jetta (6th gen., Mex.) 6,239 26,141 New Beetle (1st gen., Mex.) 0 0 New Beetle Cabrio (1st gen., Mex.) 0 0 Passat 857 3,519 Medium (Mex. trk.) 0 0 Total U.S. car 857 3,519 Total Mexico car 10,606 44,441 Total Mexico truck 0 0 VOLKSWAGEN 11,463 47,960 Med./hvy. truck (Can. trk.) 543 2,122 Med./hvy. truck (Mex. trk.) 1,888 7,876 Med./hvy. truck (trk.) 5,226 20,828 OTHER 7,657 30,826 Total U.S. car 72,191 298,688 Total Canada car 19,130 81,661 Total Mexico car 37,888 159,380 Total North America car 129,209 539,729 Total U.S. truck 122,837 507,813 Total Canada truck 22,175 100,018 Total Mexico truck 15,382 78,498 Total North America truck 160,394 686,329 Total U.S. 195,028 806,501 Total Canada 41,305 181,679 Total Mexico 53,270 237,878 TOTAL NORTH AMERICA 289,603 1,226,058

3,165 3,199 16,654 10,567 23,018 10,567 33,585 0 21,430 249,495 32,418 56,265 139,918 31,469 51,745 138,920 51,686 17,548 46,408 12,359 30,412 67,853 22,735 20,536 991,197 1,274 327,190 446,156 151,272 67,853 992,471 0 0 0 38,424 90,172 5,519 134,115 58,870 187,466 5,519 192,985 527 52,480 35,811 155,961 3,456 170,494 16,455 45,022 85,937 99,047 15,326 106,135 51,494 42,537 64,043 891,718 240,250 186,949 322,935 151,527 42,537 944,198 1,003,068 16,617 49 67,982 0 109,219 246,226 0 0 17,258 0 17,258 440,093 0 457,351 19,665 78,417 189,745 287,827 2,601,119 837,268 1,447,389 4,885,776 4,745,399 957,584 808,903 6,511,886 7,346,518 1,794,852 2,256,292 11,397,662

4,033 1,824 14,276 5,566 20,133 5,566 25,699 3,466 21,893 218,008 87 62,980 122,187 33,930 63,725 164,435 0 22,070 43,397 0 24,806 43,002 25,381 22,904 868,805 1,486 302,881 384,364 143,510 43,002 873,757 63,319 27,495 90,814 37,031 93,209 4,609 134,849 76,027 206,267 4,609 210,876 0 71,262 35,165 223,166 16,630 162,254 31,763 56,123 71,967 126,308 21,584 113,356 27,986 46,428 94,415 1,027,145 331,084 194,017 329,308 197,570 46,428 1,098,407 1,265,248 0 0 48,441 116,532 104,177 50,852 31,447 8,640 0 570 0 360,089 570 360,659 16,039 49,251 156,983 222,273 2,573,010 856,712 1,246,063 4,675,785 4,197,546 956,952 733,311 5,887,809 6,770,556 1,813,664 1,979,374 10,563,594

PERSONNEL
DMEAUTOMOTIVE — Mike Martinez, 46, to chief marketing officer. He had been chief sales and marketing officer at izmocars. In his new role, Martinez will work to elevate the company’s brand and build demand for its products and services. DMEautomotive of Daytona Beach, Fla., provides data management and analytics, customer-acquisition and -retention marketing programs, and other services to U.S. auto dealerships and aftermarket companies. TOYOTA MOTOR SALES U.S.A. INC. — Ed Laukes to the new position of vice president of marketing communications and motorsports. He had been corporate manager of marketing motorsports.

†Automotive News estimate ‡Actual *Not included in production grand totals Source: Automotive News Data Center and company sources
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