JackSilb
01-05-2004, 06:32PM
WORLD REPORT: Brazil </div>
Land Rover will be marketing its austere-looking Defender 110 in the U.S. again, after having quit this market in 1997. The opportunity is the result of the competitiveness achieved by the Brazilian plant in São Bernardo do Campo, state of São Paulo, inaugurated in 1998. The initial 300 units feature 60-percent Brazilian content. According to the company's forecasting, the American market has a potential for 5000 units yearly... Ex-vice-president of product development for Ford South America, Luc de Ferran, 58 (father of IRL driver Gil de Ferran), is back to active service less than four months after retiring. He has been assigned to supervise the construction of Hyundai's first assembly plant in Brazil, to be located next to the fence of Ford's industrial complex in Camaçari, state of Bahia, which he led construction himself. He was also the mastermind of new Fiesta-based compact SUV EcoSport, a hot seller in Brazil, in Latin markets and likely to be manufactured in other countries... Sugarcane ethanol distilled in Brazil is to be exported to Japan. The first batch of 500 million liters (132 million U.S. gallons) is for blending with gasoline on athree percent tryout. The Japanese look for reaching aten percent blend in the medium term and only Brazil offers all the conditions for such a high-volume export. All grades of Brazilian gasoline contain ethanol at 25 percent presently. - Fernando Calmon </div>
So much to see, so little time. Try using your 4WD tosee and do more.
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Land Rover will be marketing its austere-looking Defender 110 in the U.S. again, after having quit this market in 1997. The opportunity is the result of the competitiveness achieved by the Brazilian plant in São Bernardo do Campo, state of São Paulo, inaugurated in 1998. The initial 300 units feature 60-percent Brazilian content. According to the company's forecasting, the American market has a potential for 5000 units yearly... Ex-vice-president of product development for Ford South America, Luc de Ferran, 58 (father of IRL driver Gil de Ferran), is back to active service less than four months after retiring. He has been assigned to supervise the construction of Hyundai's first assembly plant in Brazil, to be located next to the fence of Ford's industrial complex in Camaçari, state of Bahia, which he led construction himself. He was also the mastermind of new Fiesta-based compact SUV EcoSport, a hot seller in Brazil, in Latin markets and likely to be manufactured in other countries... Sugarcane ethanol distilled in Brazil is to be exported to Japan. The first batch of 500 million liters (132 million U.S. gallons) is for blending with gasoline on athree percent tryout. The Japanese look for reaching aten percent blend in the medium term and only Brazil offers all the conditions for such a high-volume export. All grades of Brazilian gasoline contain ethanol at 25 percent presently. - Fernando Calmon </div>
So much to see, so little time. Try using your 4WD tosee and do more.
Tread Lightly! empowers generations to enjoy the outdoors responsibly...
http://www.4wdtrips.net