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...third shift to build Grand Cherokees around the clock at a Detroit plant this fall. Chrysler is also reopening a Missouri facility that it closed down four years ago and will now use to make Jeeps. For its part, Ford is converting a St. Louis plant that currently makes Aerostar vans to sports-utility production at a cost of nearly $600 million. And General Motors is juggling shifts at plants in four states to make room for a new Chevrolet Blazer this summer and new Chevy Tahoes and GMC Yukons...
...other clean fuel by the year 2007. "This is what we were hoping to stimulate." Automakers have also been tinkering along these lines. Peugeot and Fiat have announced plans to sell electric vehicles in Europe within the next few years, and Ford is testing an electrified model of the Aerostar van. Not to be left behind, GM Chairman Roger Smith announced last week that his company will proceed with commercial production of its sleek battery-powered Impact, although experts say the sedan is not likely to reach dealer showrooms before...
...will be a completely new model. Later this year the firm plans to unveil a Ford Thunderbird with styling resembling a BMW. Also in the works: face-lifts for the Ranger pickup and Bronco II sport-utility vehicle; a nip and tuck for the Taurus; a version of the Aerostar van that will stretch 15 in. longer than the current 14 1/2-ft. model; and by 1991 a compact four-wheel-drive van designed by Nissan and made by Ford to compete with Chrysler's line of Voyagers and Caravans, which now command 49% of the U.S. minivan market...
...recall 4.3 million cars, light trucks and vans to correct fuel-system defects that have caused some 230 engine fires and injured 16 people. The problems afflict vehicles with fuel-injected engines from the 1986 through 1988 model years, including the Mercury Sable, the Ford Taurus and the Aerostar van. Ford's ! recall is the largest by a U.S. automaker since 1981, and could be a setback to the company's newly regained reputation for high quality...
Some of those who rushed to buy an expensive robotic system got less than they bargained for. At a Ford Motor plant in St. Louis, snags in 200 production-line robots delayed the 1986 introduction of the Aerostar minivan. Then the discovery that the same robots had been skipping many key welds led to the recall three months later of some 30,000 of the vehicles. In another disastrous episode, a Campbell Soup plant in Napoleon, Ohio, was outfitted with a $215,000 system designed to lift 50-lb. cases of soup. But anytime it encountered defective cases, the machine...