Subaru, Toyota limit output at N. American plants (trying to conserve parts)

[villager]

Source: AP

Subaru, Toyota limit output at N. American plants

DETROIT -- Two Japanese automakers are halting some production at North American factories to assess availability of parts following Friday's deadline earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Subaru of America says it has suspended production at its plant in Lafayette, Ind. The plant, Subaru's only North American factory, employs 3,500 workers and built 150,000 vehicles last year, including the Outback and Tribeca wagons and Legacy sedan. A company spokesman doesn't know when production will resume.

Toyota is suspending overtime and production on Saturdays at all of its North American plants to assess the availability of car parts. Toyota is trying to conserve parts after the huge earthquake and tsunami, which is disrupting shipments from Japan to the U.S.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Just in time

we had to change the IMA system in the hybrid and the battery... a week from yesterday the parts might not be in the pipeline

So the quake is about to hit the us.

[BadGimp]

2. Fallout of the economic kind... Close to home and this soon

This is gonna get a lot worse before long.