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Automotive Industry Corporate News
Automotive Industry Corporate News
Automotive industry is much wider than gearbox repairs and new transmission units launched on the market. It is wise to learn about new vehicles from various manufacturers recently introduced on the market, new technologies in modern cars - including Continuously Variable Transmissions, Direct-Shift Gearboxes - as well as automatic transmission fluid that would allow reduction of harmful emissions and many more things!
Mopar, the
parts, service and customer care organization within FCA, an updated version of
its official website, Mopar.com, giving numerous users access to more vehicle data,
info on thousands of car components (including transmission spare parts and
repair kits), and maintenance services.
Ford has recently announced the recall of 107,850
F-150 trucks aiming to solve the issue with defective software that was
installed as a possible solution during the previous recall of this model.
Archway
Products, the Irish company specialized in manufacturing of advanced road
repair machinery, selected Allison’s 3000 Series transmission for its latest
road repair vehicle named Roadmaster.
Remanufacturing
allows the automobile industry to cut expenses on consumption of energy and
materials – in contrast to manufacturing of new parts. ZF has been working with
this concept in mind since 1962 and has significantly expanded its
remanufacturing program over the last years.
Mister
Transmission, Canada's largest chain of transmission repair experts, will be
the “Victory Lane Presenting Sponsor” of 6 racing competitions organized by All
North Racing Powered by Pinty’s.
The Ferrari 458 Italia was released unveiled at
the 2009 Frankfurt Motor. It gained recognition as one of the most
performance-oriented sports cars. In the view of many Ferrari fans, the only
thing missing in the Ferrari 458 design turns out to be the lack of a manual variant.
Recently, some new details related to an 8-speed
dual-clutch transmission, assumed to find application on the C8 Corvette, were
posted on the Internet It is referred to the patent application from GM
recently released online on the Mid Engine Corvette Forum.
According to numerous rumors in the automobile
media, Toyota still considers adding a manual transmission option for its
latest Supra model.
In this
article, we will discuss technical solutions, designed by Allison in the course
of its long and highly-productive history, intended to attain higher
manufacturing capacity, simplify the course of production with fewer components
and to achieve higher level of maintainability.
Manual transmissions make another step backward in the competition with automatics, as Mini reported about temporary suspension of its models equipped with manual gearboxes for the territory of the USA.
Ford
plans to approach the auto market with 40 models (16 of them are supposed to be
battery-operated) of electrified cars by 2022. For this purpose, Ford came up with the idea to
design an advanced automatic transmission system, named as “modular hybrid
technology”.
As
new car models are equipped with more and more advanced electronics, carmakers
find new ways to add more free space in the driver’s cabin. The new digital
push-button gear shifting mechanism in the upgraded 2020 Acadia is a vivid
example of this trend.