Mymoto Nigeria: meeting your automotive needs.
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Mitsubishi Motors President Tetsuro Aikawa will step down from his post June 24, reports Automotive News.
Aikawa is leaving after less than two years on the job. Also resigning is Ryugo Nakao, executive vice president in charge of quality and product strategy.
Mitsubishi released a brief statement on its global news website today. “MMC [Mitsubishi Motors Corporation] has caused tremendous trouble and concern to our customers and all of our stakeholders,” the statement said, referencing Mitsubishi’s recent fuel economy scandal “Considering this, Mr. Aikawa and Mr. Nakao decided today that they will resign.” Mitsubishi said it will announce replacements for the two executives at an upcoming board of directors’ meeting.
Meanwhile, CEO Osamu Masuko has vowed to stay on until Mitsubishi finalizes its transfer 34 percent stake to Nissan The deal is subject to a definitive Alliance Agreement, which is expected to come at the end of this month. If all goes as planned, the deal will close by the end of this year.
Aikawa had spent his entire career at the company, first joining Mitsubishi in 1978. He was noted for his role as a longtime engineer, developing Japanese minicars like the Mitsubishi eK wagon and the Mitsubishi EV. Both of those models, ironically, ended up playing a big part in the automaker’s fuel economy scandal. According to Automotive News, Aikawa has decided to leave for two reasons. Not only was he a longtime engineer and director of the R&D division that manipulated fuel economy results, but he also wants to allow the company to start fresh as it enters its new relationship with Nissan.
“For causing trouble and worry first and foremost to our customers and to all involved, I take responsibility,” he said, reports AN.
SOURCE: Mototrend
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Japanese car manufacturer Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has announced the recall of almost three million of its cars worldwide after a potential weakness was discovered concerning the vehicle’s seatbelts.
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Except the provisions of the National Automotive Industry Development Plan (NAIDP) are effectively implemented to catalyse the development of the nation’s automotive sector, enjoying a more affordable made-in-Nigeria vehicle may be far from sight.
These were the words of the Director of Operations, Iron Products Industries (IPI), Lagos, Davies Ikegbula, who said the organisation has started assembling Tata trucks in Nigeria. Ikegbula, who addressed journalists in Lagos, said that the NAIDP, popularly known as the automotive policy has what it takes to make Nigeria the hub of the continent’s automotive market.
Showcasing the company’s chain of production facilities in the Ikotun area of Lagos, where commercial vehicles of various brands, including Tata, are assembled, Ikegbula remarked that timely execution of the policy, which seeks to revitalise the auto industry by discouraging vehicle importation and encouraging local production, could help boost activities in the industry. He said leveraging on the policy would lead to the production of affordable, but top quality vehicles for the local market and export.
According to him, existing auto plants like IPI, Innoson and Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited, as well as new original equipment investors attracted by the NAIDP, have the capacity to meet the nation’s vehicular needs, including passenger cars, commercial vehicles and special purpose articulated vehicles.
He urged the Federal Government to introduce incentives and policies that would help the local industry to thrive, in addition to addressing the challenges which have militated against progress in the industry, particularly the problem of power and high exchange rate.
Described as the clear leader in the structural steel works and steel fabrication industry in the country, IPI’s main factory on Ikotun-Egbe road, Ikotun, Lagos, was busy when visited as sundry heavy duty truck bodies were in various stages of construction.
At work were a wide range of high precision equipment, including cutting and bending machines that were fabricating steel frames and metal sheets for the construction of trailers, tankers, and bottle carriers for the brewing and bottling companies.
Ikegbula stressed that the plant has a large clientele of satisfied corporate customers, including breweries and bottling companies who are pleased with IPI’s quality of work and quick delivery policy, especially on the six and tenpallet carriers.
SOURCE: Guardian
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