Ford rolls-off 5-millionth EcoBoost-equipped vehicle at Michigan Assembly Plant

Ford has hit a new production milestone with its fuel-efficient EcoBoost engine technology. Late last week, the 5-millionth vehicle with a Ford EcoBoost engine rolled-off the assembly line at Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan.
It was just less than three years

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Mitsubishi Motors celebrates 5-million cars produced at the Okazaki plant

Mitsubishi Motors Corporations (MMC) Okazaki plant near Nagoya (Japan) celebrated its 5-millionth vehicle produced since 1977 - a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV.

Tetsuro Aikawa, MMC's President & COO, formally presented this milestone Outlander PHEV to

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Skoda produces 500,000th third-generation Octavia

Skoda produced the 500,000th third-generation Octavia. The anniversary vehicle - an Octavia GreenLine in white colour - rolled-off the Skoda production line in Mlada Boleslav. The third-generation Octavia, launched at the beginning of 2012, is in a class of its own and has proven

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500,000th Mercedes-Benz passenger car rolls-off production line in Beijing

The 500,000th locally produced Mercedes-Benz passenger car, an all-new long-wheelbase C-class model, has rolled-off the production lines at Daimler's Sino-German production joint-venture Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd. (BBAC), marking yet another milestone

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Vauxhall's Astra plant boosts workforce as 5-millionth car is built

In its 50th year as one of the UK's most prolific car plants, Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port factory will produce its five-millionth vehicle, while also preparing for an influx of 300 extra staff to support the build up to an all-new Astra in 2015.

News of the landmark car will be

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Seat produces Ibiza number 5-million, celebrates 30th anniversary

Seat's Martorell production plant is celebrating - the facility's Line 1 has produced its Ibiza number five-million. And the Spanish brand's most iconic model has reached this milestone on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.

Employees on the line of the best-selling car, together

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KMA announces record April sales; sells five-millionth vehicle in the US

With Kia Motors America (KMA) celebrating its 20th anniversary, the company's first-quarter momentum continued into April with record sales of 53,676 vehicles, a 12.9 per cent increase over the same month in 2013. Record monthly sales were led by the US-built* Optima

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BMW plant Berlin manufactures 500,000th BMW GS motorcycle with boxer engine

Today the 500,000th BMW motorcycle of the flat-twin-engined GS model series came off the production line - a R 1200 GS. Since 1969 motorcycles have been manufactured for the world market in Berlin-Spandau and since 1980 the BMW Motorrad GS models with boxer engine, too.

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Five-millionth Audi with quattro all-wheel drive rolls-off the assembly line at Neckarsulm

Audi has just proved that there really is safety in numbers by producing its five-millionth quattro all-wheel-drive-equipped model - an A6 allroad. The rugged, air-suspended Avant is just one of over 140 variants across the Audi range currently

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Fiat rolls-off five-millionth 1.3 MultiJet engine at Poland plant

Fiat Powertrain Technologies Poland plant in Bielsko-Biała reached a historic milestone - the 5,000,000th 1.3 MultiJet engine has rolled-off the lines at the Polish plant. The record demonstrates the great success of this small diesel engine - four cylinders in line, 16

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