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NUMMI to get upgrade
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:29 am
by joatmon
this article from LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/busines...iness and this one from Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/...japan say the upgrade may be to produce a corolla hybrid this article from reuters says "The operator of a car plant in Fremont, California, will use 7-8 billion yen of the money by 2007 to upgrade a painting line, the report said. An assembly line would also be renovated"
http://today.reuters.com/busin...07919
Re: NUMMI to get upgrade (joatmon)
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:30 am
by Kari
Upgrade the painting line, huh? It's about time!
Re: NUMMI to get upgrade
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:10 am
by ColonelPanic
Quote »The factory will ``make a significant investment in renovating our car paint shop,''*gasp* Like adding equipment that they don't seem to have in place currently that is used to actually paint these vehicles? Woo hoo!!! hahaha!Quote »Toyota Motor Corp. will upgrade a California factory that it shares with General Motors Corp. to make "better vehicles," Toyota's president said Wednesday.Let us all hope that happens for sure!