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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedWagon doubts economics of niche assembly.(Suppliers)
Automotive News Europe, December, 2002
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Byline: Edmund Chew
Wagon wants to design and produce auto body structures but it has no plans to build entire vehicles.
Unless suppliers can find a breakthrough in assembly processes, Wagon believes contract assembly of niche derivative models does not pay off.
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Most car manufacturers already have a lot of assembly and painting capacity, so there is little need for suppliers to create more, said ...
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