GM, Toyota and VW debate linking parts online

By Suzanna Kerridge, 2 February 2000 15:48

NEWS Three of the world's largest car dealers are currently in talks to standardise their computer systems for designing and developing car parts. US-based General Motors, Japan's Toyota and German manufacturer Volkswagen could link up their systems to improve the automated trading of auto parts by 2001, according to reports in the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. The report said cost cutting was the primary motive behind the move.

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