“Our team completely rethought every inch of Expedition.”
Size matters as the ads and street slang say, so Ford is increasing production of Expedition and Lincoln Navigator again this summer by 20% to meet swelling customer demand, adding 550 jobs at Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville and moving approximately that same number of jobs from Louisville Assembly Plant. Production bulges after the summer shutdown in July.
Expedition retail sales increased 35% in 2018 and its market segment share gained 5.6% points, while from the 2017 to 2018 model year, average transaction pricing grew by $11,700 to, gulp, $62,700; Navigator sales increased 70% in 2018, its best year since 2007. Continue reading
Toyota and Suzuki Agree to Consider a New Collaboration
Suzuki’s India-made vehicles (Baleno, Vitara Brezza above, Ciaz, Ertiga) go to Toyota for Africa.
Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Suzuki Motor Corporation (Suzuki) today announced their agreement to begin considering collaboration in new fields. They have been analyzing the concrete details of such collaboration since concluding a memorandum of understanding toward business partnership two long years ago on February 6, 2017.
The slow-moving Japanese companies say Toyota’s strength in electrification technologies and Suzuki’s strength in technologies for compact vehicles, allows for growth through joint collaboration in production and in the popularization of electrified vehicles. Continue reading →