Word: suzuki
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...sure, automaking has become such a globalized business that the nationality of cars is increasingly blurred. GM owns 38% of Japan's Isuzu, 50% of South Korea's Daewoo Motors, 50% of Sweden's Saab-Scania and 5% of Japan's Suzuki, and shares some manufacturing operations with both Toyota and Suzuki. Those alliances give GM global reach, but the automaker was in danger of evolving into little more than a holding company if it did not relearn how to manufacture competitive cars in its own plants...
Saturn may also lure customers away from other GM products, especially its highly successful Geo line, which is made with partners Suzuki and Toyota. "They're not going to steal market share from the Japanese," says Paul Lienert, editor of Automotive Industries' Insider, a trade newsletter. "It's more likely that they'll cannibalize other GM products, so for the company it will be a net wash in market share...
While Japanese automakers have lagged behind their Western counterparts as investors in East European countries, Suzuki Motor formed a $132 million joint venture in January to build small cars in Hungary. The agreement, which was reached after five years of negotiation, calls for the company to produce 15,000 Suzuki Swifts a year starting...
...Takeshita and L.D.P. kingmaker Shin Kanemaru are related through the marriage of their children. Former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, a son of a parliamentarian, is married to the daughter of former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. In the upcoming elections, the sons of former Prime Ministers Takeo Fukuda and Zenko Suzuki hope to succeed their fathers in the Diet...