Honda to build Odyssey at Ala. plant

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Honda Motor Co Ltd announced on Apr 25, 2000 that it will manufacture its Odyssey minivan as well as the van's V-16 engine at a factory in Lincoln, AL. The Alabama plant, which is scheduled to be finished in late 2000, is expected to employ about 1,500 workers. According to Honda Pres and CEO Hiroyuki Yoshino, the automaker will invest an additional $40 million to increase production capacity at the company's fifth factory in North America.

New capacity, new plant construction, Alabama, Honda Motor Company Ltd.

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Hybrid minivan gets 40 mpg

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Toyota Motor Corp has rolled out a hybrid minivan that can go 40 miles to the gallon, twice the fuel consumption of gasoline-fed US minivans. The Estima Hybrid is equipped with a gasoline engine, an electric motor and a continuously variable automatic transmission that drive the front wheels. Another electric motor is used in powering the rear wheels. Toyota plans to make 300,000 Estimas by 2005, mainly as mild hybrids, which improve fuel consumption by as much as 15%.

Motor vehicles and car bodies, Japan, Brief Article, Abstract, Toyota Motor Corp., TOYOY

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Hot-rod van no vain plan

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Chrysler, an automobile manufacturer in the US, developed the small van called the Dodge Caravan R/T in 1998 as it celebrates the launch of its first small van in 1983. The company has already come out with prototypes of its high-power minivans with sporty-handling suspensions yet is slow to come up with production versions. The Dodge brand's general manager Jim Julow expressed optimism that Chrysler can come up with vehicles for this category rather than confine itself to auto show exhibitions. Minivan manufacturers generally believe that the sporty- van market is too small although the concept is still appealing to them.

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Develops the small van called the Dodge Caravan R/T in 1998 as it celebrates the launch of its first small van in 1983

United States, Chrysler Corp., Article

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