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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gtkisaru" data-source="post: 9646438" data-attributes="member: 68721">Japan's auto industry remains hobbled after earthquake; Toyota keeps assembly plants closed. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sad.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad    :(" data-shortname=":(" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sad.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad    :(" data-shortname=":(" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sad.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad    :(" data-shortname=":(" />The Japanese auto industry remained largely hobbled Thursday, nearly a  week after the country's worst-ever earthquake laid waste to its  industrial northeast, although some manufacturers announced plans to  resume limited operations.Toyota Motor Corp., the world's top  automaker, will start up plants for producing repair or replacement  parts on Thursday. However, the company said it would keep its assembly  plants throughout Japan closed through next Tuesday, affecting the  production of 95,000 vehicles.The company said it has not decided when full production will resume.Toyota  also plans to start production of parts for overseas production,  including knockdown car assembly, on Monday in plants located in Aichi  Prefecture southwest of Tokyo, but not in the northeastern areas hit by  the 9.0-magnitude quake and the tsunami it triggered.Northeastern  Japan is a major centre for auto production, with a myriad of parts  suppliers and a network of roads and ports for speedy distribution. But  Toyota said supplier production has not yet recovered enough in the  region to resume making cars and other vehicles."We are making a  priority the recovery efforts for the region and the safety of the  workers at our plants and suppliers and their families," Toyota said in a  statement.The northeast is also home to steel plants, oil  refineries, nuclear power plants — some severely damaged by the disaster  —and factories making parts for electronics. Roads and other transport  networks are crippled, while power supplies are constrained amid an  unfolding crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.Nissan  Motor Co. said it would resume production at its Kyushu plant on  Thursday and Friday for as long as inventories of parts last. Other  auto-assembly plants, as well as its Yokohama engine plant, will remain  closed. Nissan did not disclose the number of vehicles affected.Nissan  said transmission plants were damaged and have stopped operations  because of another earthquake on Tuesday in Shizuoka, southwest of  Tokyo.Honda Motor Co.'s auto plants in Japan also remained closed  because of the shortage of parts from the northeast. Plans for what's  ahead may be clearer over the weekend, a spokeswoman said.Mazda Motor Corp. plants remain closed at least through Sunday, also due to a shortage of parts from northeastern Japan.Mitsubishi  Motors Corp. started three plants Wednesday and plans to have them  running through Thursday, using inventory parts. It did not disclose  vehicle numbers affected or say how many are expected to be produced on  those two days.Subaru auto-assembly plants remain closed through Sunday.___________________________Associated Press (CP) <img src="http://www.hybridcars.com/files/tsunami-japan-cars-610.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.tundraheadquarters.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ruined-cars-japanese-ports.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sad.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Sad    :(" data-shortname=":(" /> Japan!! Come back!!!</blockquote>

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