Volkswagen, General Motors Co. and BMW are among carmakers whose production has been hit by a strike in South Africa today as 30,000 metalworkers take action to demand higher pay.
“The strike started today,” Castro Ngobese, a spokesman for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, said by phone. “There are no negotiations, since they broke down. We are waiting for employers to submit a revised offer.”
Nissan has applied for permission to extend its factory at Sunderland in northeast England, already Britain’s largest car making plant, where it plans to produce a new premium compact car for its Infiniti brand starting in 2015.
Wiesmann, a German manufacturer of retro-style sports cars, says it has filed for insolvency and is seeking strategic partners and investors. Wiesmann’s retro-styled sports car lineup includes the GT MF4, pictured.
The Volkswagen Type 2 Microbus also known as T2 has been the longest-produced model in the world and is now coming to an end in Brazil where it has been in production for 56 years.
After peaking at 173,034 sales in 2006, Scion’s U.S. volume has fallen off sharply. Most of the vehicle lineup is aging, and Toyota has shown few signs of offering replacements.Photo credit: BLOOMBERG
