I guess it’s just another case of Americans buying vehicles by the pound.

Deanst I’ve never understood the love affair with these vehicles.

It is also the realization of our desire to never let cars become commodities.” This is a partnership in which those who are passionate about cars will work together to make ever-better cars. “The greatest fruit of our partnership with Mazda is that we have found a new partner who truly loves cars,” Toyota President Akio Toyoda said in a statement, “It has also sparked Toyota’s competitive spirit, increasing our sense of not wanting to be bested by Mazda.

Toyota claimed the decision was about more than just a strategy to share technology, suggesting the automakers had genuine feelings for one another. The two companies have been dating casually for a couple of years Toyota sometimes uses Mazda’s Mexican factory to build compact cars, the two have fostered a love child (the Mazda 2-based Toyota Yaris iA), but this is the first time they’ve seriously considered moving in together.

automotive plant and sharing EV technology - showing that Mazda hasn’t totally sworn off the idea of an electric car. The alliance includes the construction of a joint-venture $1.6 billion U.S. is set to strike a deal to take a 5-percent stake in fellow Japanese automaker Mazda Motor Corp. Predictably, the brunt of these were designed to instantly undo any actions taken throughout the duration of the Trump administration and included one directing the Department of Transportation and EPA to reconsider the 2019 decision to remove California’s authority to limit tailpipe emissions by April and revise the fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles by summer. But the issue became moot once President Biden broke the record for executive orders by signing 22 in his first week.

market and may even influence the types of vehicles that were manufactured for all of North America. It also set up the CSAR to embrace any entity that had views conflicting with California Air Resources Board.įederal concerns were that the Golden State setting its own targets would butt heads with the relaxed national benchmarks and ultimately divide the U.S. Unfortunately, this ran the risk of undermining the revised national standards penned shortly after the United States became energy independent. California leadership had vowed to ignore the Trump administration’s proposed rollback and began making binding side deals with automakers (specifically BMW, Ford, Volkswagen, Volvo, and Honda) committed to adhering to the aggressive limits established under President Obama. The Coalition for Sustainable Automotive Regulation (CSAR) is officially withdrawing from a lawsuit between California and federal authorities over the coastal state’s ability to establish its own emissions standards.

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