2011 Was A Difficult Year For Japanese Car Manufacturers

Monday, 31. October 2011

You have to have some sympathy for Honda after our hearts go out to those that died in the Tsunami then over the last few days those that have lost their lives in the Thai floods. But talk about bad choices of location, Honda shut down production for most of the summer following the tsunami and we now hear that following the severe floods on 4th Read more »

Tsunami Not The Real Reason For Profit Warnings

Monday, 1. August 2011

I have commented previously on the excuses made by the manufacturers about the drop in car availability and the increased prices as a result of the Japanese tsunami. This was pretty much backed up by Peugeot Citroen when they issued a profit warning which they put down to the tsunami and earthquake in Japan and problems with component Read more »

Tsunami Causes Production Problems

Sunday, 1. May 2011

2011 Honda CR-V

Image by Rennett Stowe via Flickr

Toyota and Honda have run into production difficulties following the Japanese tsunami. Honda had scaled down production of its Civic, Jazz and CR-V models at Swindon in Wiltshire by half earlier in April and have now announced short time working whilst their Japanese plants, producing essential parts, get back up to full capacity. Toyota shut Read more »