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...industry has already undergone considerable consolidation. Along with its equity interest in Kia, Ford Motor Co. owns Jaguar PLC and a one-third stake in Mazda and is considering an alliance with Samsung Motors Inc. GM, still the world's largest automaker, owns Germany's Adam Opel AG, the U.K.'s Vauxhall Motor Cars Ltd., Holden's in Australia, 50% of Saab Automobile AB in Sweden and about a third of Isuzu. On top of that, GM operates a joint venture in Canada with Suzuki Motor Corp. and an assembly plant called NUMMI in California with Toyota...
...Toyota Motor Co. has achieved world class another way, first through exporting from Japan and then by building foreign plants. In both cases it employs a unique production system that cuts costs through continuous improvement, yielding sharp reductions in product development and manufacturing lead times. The cornerstone of the system involves a "platform team" approach that unites managers in such disparate areas as engineering, design, purchasing and field service and even provides suppliers to shepherd a vehicle from blueprints into the customer's hands in 2 1/2 years instead of the typical four to six years most car manufacturers take...
Sources: National Academy of Sciences and New England Journal of Medicine; Ford Motor; Journal of the A.M.A...
Bynum Jackson of 491 Huntington Ave. in Boston was arrested at Cambridge and Columbia Streets after taking down a lightpole and then running into a motor vehicle stopped at a red light...
...Reading resident reported that her motor vehicle was stolen from lot 5 on Bishop Allen Drive. The owner notified the Cambridge Police Dept. at 3:10 a.m. that she found her motor vehicle parked in lot 6. The report was canceled...