Cities Face Life Without 16 Ford Plants
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By M.R. KROPKO LORAIN, Ohio - He glances through the chain-link fence at hulking, dark buildings and weeds growing tall in pavement cracks. The chilling scene on a gray November day makes John &quot;Larry&quot; Wargo sigh with sadness.
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Nissan Motor, the Japanese carmaker, has been forced to stop production at three of its four car assembly plants in Japan for five working days after running out
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Jaguar is to halt production at a plant in Coventry, with the loss of 1,150 jobs, because of poor demand for the luxury brand, US parent company Ford announced.
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Ford Motor Co. (FN: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it has stopped production at its assembly plant in Georgia for at least a day because of lack of parts.
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Soaring gas prices, anxiety about petro-terrorism and worries about global warming are all chipping away at support for the auto industry in Washington.
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Ford Motor Co. will kill off the Ford  Excursion, its largest sport utility vehicle and a lightning  rod for criticism from environmental groups, next year, a  source familiar with the plan said on Monday.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The dateline fools you as much as the event may fool you. These are the suburbs of Detroit, where the grit turns into greenery, where the big shots who manage the car factories
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Ford Motor Co. reported Wednesday that the company had a 5 percent decline in sales during October, including declines in sales of each of the three lines of sport-utility vehicles that are made in Louisville.
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Long a symbol of power for American car companies, the V-8 engine is sputtering as Detroitâs Big Three promote smaller engines and alternative-fuel vehicles.
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The long-term outlook for local production is not good if U.S. manufacturers cannot build small cars here.
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Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it will end the second of its two production shifts at its suburban assembly plant effective Jan. 3, eliminating about 800 jobs.
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DETROIT General Motors and Ford Motor have announced that they plan to cut car and truck production in the fourth quarter by as much as 7 percent because vehicles are piling up unsold in inventory.
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Ford Motor Co.  said on Friday it  will revamp three factories in Mexico over the next several  years as part of its North American restructuring plan.
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The departures will leave Ford with its smallest workforce in decades.
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When it comes to land for development, gasoline stations clean up nicely. As a result, they are steadily disappearing from New York City.
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This place could be Flint, Mich., back in the 1970s, before hard times at General Motors sent the once-prosperous manufacturing city over the cliff.
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Ford plans to cut one of the two Explorer production shifts at its St. Louis plant in January as sales of the SUV, also made in Louisville, wane.