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...Lynn Townsend was Chrysler chairman from 1967 to 1975. - Ranked by cars and trucks produced in 1981, the 15 largest vehicle manufacturers in the world are: GM, 6,240,380; Ford, 3,730,319; Toyota, 3,220,418; Nissan, 3,100,968; Volkswagen-Audi, 2,210,666; Renault, 1,810,365; Peugeot-Citroen-Talbot, 1,593,943; Fiat, 1,209,819; Toyo Kogyo (Mazda), 1,176,608; Mitsubishi, 1,094,793; Honda, 1,008,927; Chrysler, 1,002,464; Lada (U.S.S.R.), 830,000; Daimler-Benz, 712,315; Suzuki...
...different parts of the world, he envisions a setup in which Chrysler would undertake joint ventures with foreign manufacturers to get economies of scale or low-cost labor or design or technological expertise. The combines he talks about do not sound so different from the one GM and Toyota announced last month, a collaboration in California on the manufacture of a subcompact car. However, lacocca rails against that one because GM and Toyota are so enormous and powerful already...
...small cars a year in late 1984 in a GM plant in Fremont, Calif, that once employed as many as 6,000 workers but has been idle since March. The front-wheel-drive subcompact-quickly dubbed the Toyolet in Detroit-will be patterned on a new version of the Toyota Corolla and will sell for a base price of about $6,500. GM and Toyota will be equal partners in the plant, but Toyota has the right to pick the boss. The firms expect the enterprise to hire 3,000 workers in Fremont and create 9,000 more jobs...
Japan has been prodding Toyota for some time to begin producing cars in the U.S. to help ease trade tensions between the two countries. The company has been slow to move, although Honda Motor Co. is assembling Accord subcompacts in Ohio, and Nissan Motor Co. will build pickup trucks later this year in Tennessee. Growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. may have given Toyota a nudge. The new venture will give the company greater access to the U.S. market. Fearing an American clampdown on their autos, the Japanese agreed to limit exports to the U.S. for the past two years...
...Toyota-GM deal has also aroused workers' anxiety. Toyota Chairman Eiji Toyoda, who signed the agreement with GM Chairman Roger Smith, said that the venture may not necessarily hire back laid-off GM employees. The companies have even stirred fears that they may try to run the plant without union labor. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser, who welcomes the enterprise, said last week: "Getting jobs for Americans is more important than whether or not they belong to our union." If that sounds magnanimous, it may be because Fraser is sure that without the U.A.W., there will...