Honda Vietnam Co., Ltd. (HVN), a Honda motorcycle and automobile production and sales joint venture in Vietnam, announced plans to expand the annual production capacity of its motorcycle production plant by 500,000 units in order to meet rapidly growing demand in Vietnam.
Since starting up motorcycle production in 1997, HVN increased its annual production capacity to [...]

Bengaluru ,India – The GA8-TC Airvan from GippsAero, one of Australia’s most reputed aircraft producers and a part of Mahindra Aerospace, landed today in the Garden City.
The Airvan is on a multiple mission. Its Australian pilots, Ken Evers and Tim Pryse are being supported by its manufacturer, GippsAero to prove the ruggedness and reliability of [...]

India – The Tata Nano Superdrive caravan, which travelled a distance of 15,000 km, touching 36 cities across India, concluded its 26-day voyage in Mumbai. The cars were flagged in by Mr. Ratan N. Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons & Tata Motors, in the presence of Tata Motors’ senior management.
The Tata Nano Superdrive, comprising 9 Tata [...]

India – Tata Motors is happy to announce that it is providing complete transport solution to the Queen’s Baton Relay, as part of Commonwealth Games 2010. The Baton came from Pakistan at the Wagah Border.
On its 100-day national tour, the baton will visit the capital of each state and union territory, and many other cities [...]

High Point, N.C. – The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has purchased 130 Saf-T-Liner® HDX compressed natural gas (CNG) school buses from market-leader Thomas Built Buses. Introduced more than 10 years ago, Thomas Built CNG buses exceed California emission standards, among the toughest in the country.
The state of California was the first in the [...]

FORT VALLEY, Ga. – The Blue Bird Corporation announced that it would be centralizing all large bus assembly operations into its Fort Valley, Georgia location. As a result, the Company will cease operations at the Blue Bird North Georgia facility located in La Fayette, Georgia effective August 30, 2010.
Greg Bennett, Blue Bird’s President [...]

PEORIA, Ill. – Caterpillar Inc. and Wacker Neuson SE, Munich,Germany (ISIN DE000WACK012), announced that the relevant executive bodiesfor both companies have signed an alliance agreement. The agreement between the parties is for the design, manufacture, sale and support of Caterpillar mini hydraulic excavators in the under three-ton category.
The alliance agreement calls for Wacker Neuson [...]

Tokyo – The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced that it would increase the annual production capacity of the passenger car and light truck (PC/LT) tire plant of Yokohama Tire Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. by 1.4 million tires for the third-term expansion, expanding it to 4 million tires. Yokohama Rubber plans to start the increased [...]

Germany – The 2.5-liter unit in the Audi TT RS features both turbocharging and FSI direct gasoline injection technology, two of Audi’s core technologies, and marked a return to five cylinder engines for the brand with the four rings. With a displacement of 2,480 cubic centimeters, this engine produces 250 kW (340 hp) between 5,400 [...]

Germany – The engineers of AUDI AG and Audi Electronics Venture GmbH have looked into the future of active safety for three subprojects as part of the AKTIV research initiative. This field of research is focused on systems that intervene actively in the driving process and thus help to defuse critical situations and avoid accidents.
AKTIV [...]