Examples of Vehicle VIN Codes
Posted: June 29, 2009
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Want a Car ‘Made in the U.S.A’? Then Check the First Digit of the … – Then Check the First Digit of the VIN Code. Saturday, May 02, 2009 | 11 comments » Categories | Offbeat News. There’s been a lot of talk lately about supporting the domestic (U.S.) manufacturers especially after the current crisis that saw Chrysler … The “4″ at the start of the VIN indicates a car was made in the USA, but at a plant who has its headquarters in another country. Such as the BMW Z4, Toyotas, Hondas, etc., made in the USA. The #5 appears to be reserved for …
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Country of Origin Designations for Auto Manufacture and Production
Posted: May 17, 2009
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How to determine the manufacturing country of origin of vehicles:
The first digit in the sequence of the V.I.N. corresponds to the country of manufacturing origin – that is where the vehicle had its final assembly. While it may be true that parts may have been made in Nafta manufacturing regions countries or even offshore, the nice at people at Canadian Border Services will use the first digit as the determining factor for import duties and as to whether the auto import amateur importer has his or her vehicle impounded or drives home with their new purchase
1) Number “1″ USA
2) Number “2″ Canada
3) Number “3″ Mexico
4) Number “4″ Joint manufacture either GM and a foreign subsidiary or Ford and its subordinates
5) Number “5″ England
6) Character Letter “J” ( as opposed to a number” Japan
7) Character Letter “K” ( as opposed to a number” ) Korea
Character Letter “G” ( as opposed to a number” ) Germany
9) Character Letter “Y” ( as opposed to a number” ) Yugoslavia
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Posted: May 13, 2009
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Is it going to be ‘Government Motors’?
Posted: April 28, 2009
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The Obama administration appears to be in the final stages of engineering a takeover of bankrupt General Motors that would turn the company over to a combination of worker leaders and government officials.
Under the plan being developed by GM’s current chief executive, Fritz Henderson, the United Auto Workers would end up owning 39 percent of the restructured GM, with the UAW agreeing to take common stock instead of cash to pay off half the $20.4 billion that GM owes the UAW workers fund to pay pension and health benefits to retired GM workers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The plan also calls for the U.S. Treasury to give GM an additional $11.6 billion in bailout loans, on top of the $15.4 billion the government has already given.
In return, the Treasury expects to pick up at least half the ownership of GM, as payment for half the outstanding bailout funds that will total $27 billion by the time the deal is done.
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The Obama administration appears to be in the final stages of engineering a takeover of bankrupt General Motors that would turn the company over to a combination of worker leaders and government officials.
Under the plan being developed by GM’s current chief executive, Fritz Henderson, the United Auto Workers would end up owning 39 percent of the restructured GM, with the UAW agreeing to take common stock instead of cash to pay off half the $20.4 billion that GM owes the UAW workers fund to pay pension and health benefits to retired GM workers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The plan also calls for the U.S. Treasury to give GM an additional $11.6 billion in bailout loans, on top of the $15.4 billion the government has already given.
In return, the Treasury expects to pick up at least half the ownership of GM, as payment for half the outstanding bailout funds that will total $27 billion by the time the deal is done.
Classic VW Karmann Ghia
Posted: April 24, 2009
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I saw a news item the other day linking to a German language article about independent coachbuilder Wilhelm Karmann GmbH which related a bit of shocking news: Der Cabrio-Spezialist meldet Insolvenz an! Karmann, which once built convertibles for Audi, Ford, Mercedes, Porsche, Renault and VW, fabricated convertible tops for those and many other manufacturers, assembled AMC Javelins for sale in Europe, and built its own line of “Mobil” motorhomes, has filed the German equivalent of a bankruptcy petition and is going out of business.
That seems to make this an appropriate time to spend a bit of Car Lust bandwidth on Karmann’s best-known product: the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia–or, as one writer rather cleverly described it, the “Beetle in a Cocktail Dress.” That description is appropriate because beneath the Karmann Ghia’s attractively curvaceous styling is the heart and soul (and floorpan, engine, transmission, suspension, and other miscellaneous mechanical parts) of a humble Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle.
The story behind the Karmann Ghia is a fascinating one, with a surprising (to me, anyway) connection to a member of our own Car Lust family.
History contains many examples of auto manufacturers who stubbornly stuck with an established design in defiance of fashion (e.g., Checker’s Marathon taxicab, Ford’s Model T, AMC’s Hornet/Concord, Morgan’s entire product line). Perhaps the most stubborn of all was Heinz Heinrich Nordhoff, the first chief executive of Volkswagen, and a man who pretty much fit the archetype of the autocratic, perfectionist, ultracompetent German engineer.
Herr Nordhoff set a very conservative policy for Volkswagen. It built the Type 1 (not officially called the “Beetle” until the 1970s) and the Type 2 Transporter (better known in the U.S. as the “Microbus”), which was derived from the Type 1 and used many of the same mechanical parts–and that was it! The two designs were given periodic improvements and refinements, but there were no annual restylings and only a select few variations.
In the period when Europe was just getting started with its postwar rebuilding, Herr Nordhof’s conservatism made sense: there wasn’t much of a market for anything beyond basic transportation, VW already had a very good design that met that need, and it didn’t really have the money to do a lot of new product development even if the boss had been so inclined. VW would later get into trouble for being too slow to change, but all that was a couple of decades away.
Which is not to say that Herr Nordhoff was totally uninterested in expanding the VW product line. He was okay with the idea of new VW products, just as long as VW wasn’t called upon to spend a lot of its own money to develop them. In 1949, Karmann built a prototype Type 1 convertible (”Cabriolet”) on speculation, which caught Herr Nordhoff’s fancy and went into production (subcontracted out to Karmann, of course) later that year.
In 1951, Karmann began pitching the idea of a racy coupe built on the Type 1 platform. VW was open to the concept, but none of Karmann’s initial styling studies were accepted.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Alps, Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Ghia SpA, like Karmann, was looking for work. The Italians had talented designers and craftsmen, but the market for custom carbodies for the European elite was not what it had been before the war. As a way of drumming up business, Ghia built a “spec” car, the XX-500, by placing a dapper custom body on a Plymouth chassis, and showed it to Chrysler. Chrysler had just hired a new Director of Styling by the name of Virgil Exner–the father of Car Lust contributor Virgil Exner Jr.–and Ghia soon had a decent line of business crafting prototypes and limited-production custom cars from Mr. Exner’s designs. Among these was a show car called the D’Elegance, a coupe with swoopy, curvaceous bodywork.
At this point, you might be thinking that there’s a certain family resemblance between the D’Elegance and the Karmann Ghia. You’d be right about that, and with good reason. Around the time that Ghia began working on the D’Elegance, it also began collaborating with Karmann on a new design for that fancy coupe Karmann had suggested to VW. While Ghia later tried to claim otherwise, it’s pretty darned obvious just from looking at the thing that they cribbed off the D’Elegance in cooking up the VW design.
Our own Virgil Exner Jr. confirms this:
“In 1955 I had turned 22 and was attending the Kunst und Bilden Akadamie in Wein (Vienna) Austria. When school was out in late May a buddy of mine and I made our way to Torino to visit Luigi Segre and Ghia. Paul Farago, my father’s and my great associate car builder, was there and he asked Luigi to roll out the first Karman Ghia production prototype, as ‘it was developed from the D’Elegance.’ Paul had an issue with Gigi as to whether the windshield header might be too low as to make the roof look too heavy. They both asked me. I said that I thought so too, and that I would raise it by an inch. ‘Done,’ said Luigi, and it was, just before production was announced.
“Ghia had sent the second Karmann Ghia to be imported to this country to Chrysler. The first had been sent to Max Hoffman in N.Y. I drove Chrysler’s a few times in early 1956 and loved it. My father bought it from Chrysler for me as a graduation present. After about 6 months I traded it in to the local Volkswagen dealer for a brand new 1957 standard Beetle plus $600 that I used to finish the full sized build of my Simca Special.“
Herr Nordhoff liked the design, but was rightly concerned about production costs. The compound curves of the front fenders meant that they could not be formed from a simple stamping, but would have to be built up from several pieces welded together by hand, as shown in the footage of Karmann’s production floor appearing in this Portugese-language commercial:
It took Karmann 21 months to complete the engineering necessary to turn Ghia’s Exner-influenced prototype into a car that could be built cheaply enough to be profitable at the desired price point. The first production models rolled out of the shop in August of 1955. The “cabriolet” (convertible) version appeared in late 1957.
The drivetrain was straight out of the mid-1950s Beetle–a 1200-cc, 36-horsepower flat-4 motor and a four-speed transmission–and the only suspension modification was the addition of a front sway bar. The fancy bodywork weighed about 150 pounds more than the Beetle’s, but the extra weight was partially offset by the Karmann Ghia’s smaller frontal area and better aerodynamics. The 0-60 time was a Beetlesque 30 seconds, but the top speed was slightly higher than the contemporary Bug, at 72 mph. Still, it wasn’t exactly the hottest car on the road, and VW never tried to pretend otherwise:
On the other hand, the Karmann Ghia had Virgil-Exner-with-an-Italian-accent styling and the Beetle’s German-engineered reliability going for it. It might not be able to quite keep up with the other sports cars, but it would keep running while those other little two-seaters were sidelined by their chronic mechanical gremlins–and look good doing it!
(There was also another Karmann Ghia, the Type 34, which was built on the Type 3 (”Fastback” and “Squareback“) platform. It was styled by Virgil Exner Jr., and had a much more straight-lined and somewhat Corvairish look. The Type 34 was in production from 1962 to 1969, and was not officially exported to the U.S., though a few made it here.)
Karmann built a total of 362,601 coupes and 80,881 convertibles before the production run ended in 1974. A fair number have survived. Rust is a problem–as with all Karmann-built vehicles from that era–but even with that, restoring or maintaining a Karmann Ghia is relatively easy as vintage cars go. The mechanical parts are pure Beetle, and NOS or reproduction components are available from a variety of sources. As with most interesting cars, there’s an active owner’s club and other Internet forums where Karmann Ghia owners are willing to share their knowledge.
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Volkswagen Karmann Ghia » Car News Articles – That seems to make this an appropriate time to spend a bit of Car Lust bandwidth on Karmann’s best-known product: the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia–or, as one writer rather cleverly described it, the “Beetle in a Cocktail Dress. …
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The red coupe at the top of this article came from Flickr user Felipe Abreu. The photo of the D’Elegance came from Peter Madle’s Stutz cars website, which includes coverage of other rare cars designed by the Exners. The festive yellow Cabriolet came from Flickr user Lucky Luc 512, who shot it at the Feuerwehrfest Altenhundem in 2007. Flickr user Thomas Tepe took the photo of a Karmann Ghia caravan at a Karmann Ghia owners’ club meet in Germany in 2005.
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Posted: April 24, 2009
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Ugly Cars. – Autocar – As far as ugly cars go I think the forthcoming Citroen DS3 takes some beating. Its just got dis-jointed lines all over the place, but its lasting impression on me is of a caricatured 3-door Suzuki SX4! The real shame is that citroen can …
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Car manufacturers spend millions, if not billions, developing and testing every nuance of a new car, but in the showroom many buying decisions come down to image. And while the odd aesthetic mishap occurs, looking back on the sheer number of ugly vehicles, it seems implausible that none of these monstrosities were halted before leaving the drawing board. The sad fact is that quite a few of these design disasters led to some good cars, many of which were overlooked and left unloved in the showrooms. See what you think of our gallery.
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Canadian Auto Industry : New business model, new union model too
Posted: April 24, 2009
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A quote in a news story yesterday appeared to reveal that the Canadian Auto Workers boss gets it and will agree to slash labor costs by 25% so Chrysler LLC can survive.
But time is critical.
If conditions are unmet, Chrysler has made it clear that it will close down its Canadian operations, already on the downstroke for years.
Bye bye
More likely if conditions are not met, Chrysler will go into bankruptcy and liquidation in both the
The only good news from this scenario would be that Chrysler’s demise will enhance the survivability of the other two manufacturing giants.
But whip-sawing has been a part of the game and, on the way up, the unions profited mightily (too much so) from picking on one of the Big Three to extract the same benefits out of the other two. The victim was usually the weakest automaker.
New business model, new union model too
The crisis illustrates the flaw in the union mentality: some CAW officials have even demonized the wage-cut request as union-bashing and/or believe that their workers have been at the center of creating good cars for decades.
They are not at the center. Workers are cogs in the wheels of
Lewenza thinks he is just doing his job by holding out for more money on behalf of those who pay his organization dues. But this is the paradigm in the parallel universe of auto unions. He and the CAW must shift gears immediately.
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INTERNATIONAL AUTO WOES INCREASE « Culture of Life News 2 – Neither knew when the shutdowns would occur, but both said the closures would include the normal two-week closure in July to change from one model year to the next. The company has not yet notified workers. … 1995: Unions Must Study German Auto Lesson – The New York Times. “Luxuries They Can’t Afford” (Business Day, Sept. 13), on the globalization of the German auto industry, helps explain why even the strongest national unions are at a disadvantage in the struggle to …
Sympatico / MSN Autos (EN): Is Chrysler filing for bankruptcy? – I think any company in the auto industry should have to fold like any other business that files for bankruptcy, it forces the other companies still around to rethink old ideas and produce a product that will actually be wanted by those that need it. …. They need to bring down the price of a new car so middle class can afford them again! Get rid of the union they do more harm than good! Posted by: P.K. | 2009-04-24 8:14:31 AM. I think enough is enough. …
Meltdown 101: Why would it make sense for GM to temporarily close … – The United Auto Workers union contract requires the company to make up much of the difference between state unemployment benefits and their wages. A plant’s white collar work force, which has no UAW contract, can use vacation time to continue getting paid during part of the shutdown period. … GM normally shuts down its assembly plants for two weeks each summer to prepare for the new model year, but several assembly plants will see additional down weeks on top of that. …
James Laxer: Canada’s Vital Auto Industry: Past, Present and Future – The concern the government had with that choice was that General Motors, Ford and Chrysler were U.S. owned companies and so too were many of the major parts suppliers for the Canadian auto industry. The problem was that at some ….. We need a new model to plan a wide range of Canadian initiatives. Involved must be the federal government, the provinces, and the cities. The private sector, trade unions, and the best brains in a range of fields must be brought on board. …
Editorial: Between the Lines: MaryAnn Keller: Post C11 GM Needs A … – GM needs a turnaround, even if it is for the “New GM” which emerges from C11. There may be an example in automotive history of a significant turnaround without fresh leadership, but I can’t think of it. (Any ideas, Menno? …. The only thing that this division has going for it is the hope that GM can copy the Toyota/Lexus, Honda/Acura business model… But take a look at Acura sales are imploding and Lexus used to “make it” in North America by marketing Cars that everywhere …
GM to idle 13 plants as it slashes output again – Without the successful resolution of this dispute, it is General Motors’ view that Delphi or its lenders could force GM into an uncontrolled shutdown, with severe negative consequences for the U.S. automotive industry,” GM said in a release . ….. In 1996 a new financial service brand was born in Canada — ING Direct. Bruce Philp played an instrumental role building that brand, one that is detailed in The Orange Code, his new book co-authored with Arkadi Kuhlmann. …
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