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...Spring Hill, Tenn., a bucolic community of 1,400 located 28 miles south of Nashville and 563 miles away from the auto industry's epicenter in Detroit. The site is not as out of the way as it sounds. It is only about 30 miles from Smyrna, where Nissan builds cars and trucks, and some 30 miles from La Vergne, where Bridgestone makes tires. The success that these two Japanese companies have had in Tennessee reportedly impressed GM, as did the state's abundant electricity, favorable tax structure and productive labor force. Despite its fame as the home of Grand...
...union's leadership recognized, however, that GM needed something like the proposed contract to compete against a host of Japanese invaders. In addition to Nissan's Tennessee factory, a Honda auto plant is already operating in Marysville, Ohio. Mazda intends to build a factory in Michigan by 1987, and last week Toyota announced that it too would set up a U.S. plant within three years...
...place for Southern plantation owners. Alexander and Baker explained that Tennessee's constitution prohibits it from giving financial incentives to companies. They also emphasized that the state has a pro-business government, no income tax on wages and salaries, and a hardworking labor force. Another selling point was that Nissan and Bridgestone have achieved unusually high productivity and quality in Tennessee. One Nissan study showed that trucks built at Smyrna had 11% fewer defects after being on the road for three months than models assembled in Japan...
...April 1, the suspect (who was the father of reporting person’s children) closed the car window on her hand and backed up after she told him he could no longer use the motor vehicle. The suspect fled with her motor vehicle—a black 2001 Nissan Pathfinder...
...Coopers estimates that, despite growing demand from emerging markets such as China, manufacturers have the capacity to build about 20 million more cars annually than they currently produce. But Mercedes' German rivals in the luxury class, BMW and Audi, are thriving, as are several mass-volume Japanese manufacturers, including Nissan. And Renault, for one, is a prime example of an automaker that's reinvented itself. It took years for the formerly state- owned French company to shake off a reputation for shoddy quality it acquired in the 1980s. But thanks to a series of attractively designed cars, and aggressive cost...