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autor: Lopes » pn 26 sty 2009, 03:33
In July of 2008, during the presentation in India of the CBF125, which in that market is known like StunnerCBF, the president of the Honda India, S. Aoyama, announced the promise of the Honda Japan in introducing in the local market the Honda VFR to the end of 2008, which did not happen.
Day 16 of this month was put a piece of news in the official site of the Honda Japan indicating that the production of the VFR in Japan would be ended soon. Nothing was saying if it was ending in Japan and was passing for another country or was ending purely and simply...
Honda as also communicated that they would stop having an official team in the American championship AMA Superbike, continuing however to support 2 private teams, the Erion Racing and the Corona Honda team.
News of the market automobile in the Australia indicates that the sales of the last month of the year were the worst of the last 30 years.
Meantime, due to the crisis in the automobile sector, there are runmours about the cancellation of the Hall Car of Tokio predicted for this year and his return only at 2011.
Honda Japan already announced the end of his team of formula 1, but they intend to find a buyer in order not to launch them for the unemployment around 700 workers of that division.
Also the department of executive jets of the Honda, which has been one of the causes of the growing debt of the enterprise that has been coming to grow from 2003, is now an enormous headheack for the Honda executives now with massive cancellation of the executive jet orders. A strategy is still not defined for this sector, but some executives defend his pure and simple ending as the only form of saving the enterprise.
And if until now the car, motorbikes, agricultural and industrial machinery departments were managing to support everything, from now on the things will be much more difficult since the Auto department is also in serious trouble with droping sales of some 30%. Who still maintains the sales are the departments of Motorbikes and of agricultural and industrial equipment and this principally for sales in the emergent markets.
Also this week to Toyota announced that it will take damages for the 1st time in their history, and that value it will be superior to 1000 million dollars, and they announced the temporary closure of 11 of their japanese factories.
Things don't look good....