Toyota Yaris (FRENCH-Built Cars return to USA)

Automobilemag ^ | Fall 2005

[montreal]

And globalization ?

VALEO
Valeo is a french supplier to all major global automakers. To meet their demands, the Group develops, produces and sells its systems on all continents.
Its main OEM customers are:

BMW
DaimlerChrysler
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Honda
Hyundai
Mitsubishi
Porsche
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Renault – Nissan
Subaru
Toyota
Volkswagen Group
Volvo Trucks

FAURECIA
A global supplier

With 60,000 employees working at 160 sites in 28 countries and annual sales of €10.7 billion, Faurecia is a major name in the automotive industry.
As experts in the design, development, production and delivery of six major vehicle modules, namely seats, cockpits, acoustic packages, doors, front ends and exhaust systems, Faurecia adopted two years ago a common working method called the Faurecai Excellence System (FES). This continuous improvement system, based on best practices taken from within and outside the Group, creates value for customers, shareholders and employees alike.
In 2004, the Group's priority was to explain and deploy the Faurecia Excellence System throughout the organization. This initiative will continue untill all of Faurecia's businesses are covered, from initial concept to finished product. Faurecia works for all the major automakers.
In 2003, the breakdown of its turnover per customer was as follows:

PSA Peugeot Citroën 28,2%
VW group 23,4%
Renault (including Nissan) 15,5%
Ford 8,6%
General Motors 7,1%
DaimlerChrysler 6,4%
BMW 5,2%
Toyota 1,4%
Others 4,2%

And of course Michelin
MICHELIN
World Tire Number 1 with 20.1 % of the market (Tire Business 09/15/04).
Michelin relies on its global industrial presence backed by a sales network in some 170 countries. Michelin, World Number 1 Tire Manufacturer. In 2004, Europe represented 53% of sales, North America 33% and Asia, South America and the Middle-East/Africa Zone 14%.


Today automobiles really have no more nationality. It is the globalization and it is in the American spirit... Free business.

[dagnabbit]

Terrible, insulting advertisement. The parts with the women in their underwear were the worst. By the fourth or fifth time I viewed the clip- I was downright offended.

[JayDL]

Had a hands on look at a Yaris in Canada. Labeled as Japan made.
Also see: http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/about_toyota/manufacturing/

Much higher quality than the Echo it replaces...solid with feel of higher-end vehicle. It has been sold in Japan as a second-generation "Vitz" since February.

So as not to dampen the thread, it was supposedly styled in France.

[Dark Skies]

Like the conspicuously missing "r" in furtive,?

What do you make of that?

Simple failure to use spell check or perhaps an indication of a habitual reliance on careful rewrite (the luxury of which isn't permitted in the rapid-fire world of on-line discussions)?

Or are you suggesting something Freudian...or even sinister?

[chickenlips]

My brother in law works at a company in Europe that overhauls military aircraft from Europe and Middle East. He says the mechanics hate the French jets, because they are so hard to work on. Typical of the French, if the Americans engineer something one way the French will do it another regardless of how awkward it is.

A perfect example was the LeCar. It was front wheel drive, but it didn't use a transverse engine like every other car in the world. I'm surprised they didn't use 4 tires of different sizes on each one.

[Bob Eimiller]

I know Nissan is French... They even smell like cheese....

[yankeedoodledandy]

"I got a laugh out of the detroit free press article from a few days ago. headline was "Asian vehicles rank low in survey" "

People might actually be serious is they are reading stuff like this...

Toyota's Hit and Myth Marketing
http://businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2005/id20051027_151002.htm


Anyone see this?