two huge sellers with an important connection hi everyone it’s good to seeyou I’m Tom Mora back when the joint Toyota Mazda assembly plant opens itsdoors near Huntsville Alabama in 2021 the factory will have capacity to build150,000 mazda crossovers and 150,000 Toyota Corollas that’s right a compactcar in what will likely continue to be a light truck hungry market so why wouldToyota help fun the 1. 6 billion dollar plan to make a car it’s a product thatwe need very much here in North America that’s Toyota North America’s CEO Jimlens Toyota so nearly 300 30,000 Corollas in the US last year second onlyto the Honda Civic in the compact car segment overall the Corolla was thethird best-selling car behind the Civic and first place Toyota Camry midsize carLen says building Corollas in the south will help Toyota about 800 miles to thenorth we’re moving Corollas out of Canada to be able to build more RAVfours indeed Toyota will start producing rav4 compact Cu V’s at the company’sCambridge North assembly plant in Ontario in 2019the rav4 is also built at Toyota’s nearby Woodstock factory in dealers mayneed every single rav4 they can get it was the fourth best selling vehicle inthe US last year trailing only the Ford f-series Chevy Silverado and Ram pickupthe back to the Corolla it is Toyota’s biggest volume product globally meantimeToyota’s plant in Mississippi will continue to make Corollas the factorythere can build roughly 170 thousand vehicles annually for today reporting asecond death in an older pickup truck caused by a defective Takata airbaginflator the automaker confirming in December that a July 2017 crash death ina 2006 Ford Ranger was caused by a faulty Takata inflator ford reported asimilar death in January 2016 the company is urging 2,900 owners ofcertain oh six Rangers in North America to stop driving the trucks until repairscan be made at least 21 deaths worldwide are linked to the Takata inflators thatcan rupture and send deadly metal fragments into the body more productnews Kia is planning a sporty stinger like overhaul of the third-generationforte compact sedan Kia providing a sneak peak of theredesigned 40 sedan ahead of Monday’s planned introduction at the Detroit AutoShow we know auto sales in the US are losing steam but hey enough about uswhat about the world well researchers at IHS market say global light vehiclesales will grow this year but more slowly than they grew in 2017 IHSestimates 2017 global sales at a record ninety four point five million of 2. 4%from 2016looking at it another way every day just shy of 259,000 cars and trucks are soldsomewhere on the planet IHS expects sales for this year toincrease 1. 5% to ninety five point nine million turning to technology news let’sstart with what happens when a self-driving vehicle meets up with apoorly driven vehicle this modified self-driving Ford Fusion needed to betowed away when it was hit by an ordinary box man whose driver ran a redlight in Pittsburgh on Wednesday this according to published reports now fourpeople were injured in the accident the fusion is a test vehicle operated byargo AI an autonomous vehicle start-up backed by Ford Porsche says it’sdeveloping a platform for electric sports cars and supercars that could beused by sister brands Lamborghini and outing the new architecture is calledSPE its parent company Volkswagen Group’s third purpose-built platform forfull V’s last September VW said it plans to roll out more than80 new electrified models by 2025 meanwhile the Volkswagen brand iscreating an e mobility division as it looks to topple Tesla as the leader inmass-market electric cars it plans to produce five core EB models the firstgoing on sale in Europe in 2020 the new unit will be headed by Thomas Albrechtmoving into that role from his position as VW’s production chiefand finally they had a devilishly good time in northern Michigan last night andall the fun will warm some hearts too as we’ve reported bill Marsh Chrysler DodgeJeep Ram in Traverse City decided to auction off its lone Dodge ChallengerSRT demon for charity and customer Ted parrot was the highest bidder offeringfourteen thousand seven hundred dollars to gain the right to buy the demon for abuck under sticker the nearly $15,000 bid will be split among four nonprofitorganizations and that is our time for today thanks so much for watching we’llsee you tomorrowyou
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