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New models in Mercedes-Benz C Class unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - DaimlerChrysler Japan Co. unveiles two new models in the Mercedes-Benz C Class on June 22 in the first full-model changeovers in the mainstay series of German vehicles. The luxury Elegance and sporty Avantgarde (photo) models are both equipped with 1.8-, 2.5- and 3-liter gasoline engines and feature improved user-friendliness and wide interior spaces.

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Mitsubishi Fuso appoints Daimler's Boelstler as new president, CEO

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. said May 31 that Harald Boelstler (file photo), currently in charge of its parent company DaimlerChrysler AG's Mercedes-Benz passenger car procurement section, will succeed current President and Chief Executive Officer Wilfried Porth. The appointment will take place after being approved at a regular shareholder meeting on June 27.

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Hyundai, DaimlerChrysler sever strategic alliance

SEOUL, South Korea - Hyundai Motor Co. Vice President Kim Dong Jin speaks in Seoul on May 12 about the company's announcement that it has severed a strategic capital alliance with DaimlerChrysler AG.

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MMC head hints at possible capital tie-up with other businesses

TOKYO, Japan - The new head of troubled Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Yoichiro Okazaki, tells reporters at its headquarters in Tokyo on April 30 it is possible the automaker may seek a capital tie-up with companies other than its current parent DaimlerChrysler AG.

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DaimlerChrysler pulls plug on Mitsubishi Motors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 23 shows the Mitsubishi Motors Corp. headquarters building in Tokyo's Minato Ward. DaimlerChrysler AG said in Germany on April 22 it has decided not to inject capital into the struggling Japanese automaker. The German company's shareholders were against a planned rescue program for Mitsubishi Motors.

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DaimlerChrysler's Cordes to become outside director for MMC

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said April 14 that Eckhard Cordes (file photo), an executive at its German parent DaimlerChrysler AG, will become an outside board member pending approval at a shareholders meeting at the end of April. The decision is seen as an attempt to expedite the work of reviving the struggling Japanese automaker, owned 37% by DaimlerChrysler.

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MMC's Eckrodt to resign to take blame for business woes

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Rolf Eckrodt (in file photo) may step down to take the blame for poor results at the firm, which is trying to revive itself with help from its biggest shareholder, DaimlerChrysler AG, sources close to the company said Feb. 16. Eckrodt, a former senior official at DaimlerChrysler, assumed the presidency in June 2002 after being sent to the MMC board in 2001 from the German-American automaker to turn around the Japanese company.

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DaimlerChrysler delivers fuel-cell car to Tokyo Gas

TOKYO, Japan - Two officials from the Japan unit of DaimlerChrysler AG pose beside a fuel-cell-powered passenger car, the F-Cell, the company delivered to Tokyo Gas Co. in a ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 4. This is the first time a fuel-cell vehicle was actually handed over to a customer. The German carmaker said it plans to deliver 60 F-Cell cars to other customers in Japan, the United States, Germany and Singapore over two years beginning this year.

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MMC develops car based on DaimlerChrysler's fuel-cell system

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) has developed a fuel-cell vehicle (in photo) equipped with DaimlerChrysler AG's fuel-cell system. MMC said on Sept. 17 it asked the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport for permission to certify the vehicle. The certification would enable MMC to join what the government calls the ''Japan Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Demonstration Project'' and thus test the vehicle with hydrogen refueling infrastructure under actual driving conditions on public roads.

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(1)DaimlerChrysler signs contract to make Mercedes cars in China

BEIJING, China - Representatives of German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG and Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. sign an agreement in Beijing on Sept. 8 to make 25,000 Mercedes-Benz cars within the next few years in the Chinese capital.

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(2)DaimlerChrysler signs contract to make Mercedes cars in China

BEIJING, China - German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG Chairman Juergen Schrempp addresses a ceremony in Beijing on Sept. 8 held to sign an agreement with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. to make 25,000 Mercedes-Benz cars within the next few years in the Chinese capital.

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MMC unveils Colt compact car featuring high-fuel efficiency

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Rolf Eckrodt introduces the company's Colt compact car featuring the high-fuel efficiency of 20 kilometers per liter of gasoline of its 1.3-liter engine version at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyada Ward on Nov. 11. The Colt is equipped with the same platform and suspension as that of the planned compact car to be released by the Smart car division of DaimlerChrysler AG, MMC's leading shareholder.

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DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt to head MMC

TOKYO, Japan - DaimlerChrysler AG's representative at its partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), Rolf Eckrodt (file photo), will take over the presidency of the Japanese carmaker from Takashi Sonobe, MMC sources said on March 26. Eckrodt, 59, chief operating officer at MMC since January 2001, will succeed Sonobe pending approval by an MMC shareholders' meeting in late June.

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Detroit auto show begins

DETROIT, United States - The ''Pacifica'' hybrid station-wagon SUV model unveiled by the Chrysler side of DaimlerChrysler AG draws attention at the North American International Auto Show that began in Detroit on Jan. 6.

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M'bishi Motors to cut 9,500 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Sonobe (L), president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), and Vice President Rolf Eckrodt, who was dispatched to work with the troubled Japanese carmaker by DaimlerChrysler AG, announce the company's major restructuring plan at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 26. Under the plan, MMC, hit hard by cover-up scandals involving vehicle defects, will cut some 9,500 jobs, or 14% of its group workforce, by 2003 and close down its key Oe plant in Nagoya.

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DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt assumes MMC vice presidency

TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Takashi Sonobe (L), Rolf Eckrodt of DaimlerChrysler AG speaks at a news conference following his appointment as MMC's vice president and chief operating officer. Eckrodt, who currently heads the DaimlerChrysler group's railway systems division, becomes MMC's second-in-command after Sonobe.

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MMC's new No. 2 Eckrodt meets the press

TOKYO, Japan - Rolf Eckrodt of DaimlerChrysler AG speaks to the media Jan. 19, shortly after the board of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) approved his appointment as an MMC vice president and chief operating officer. The appointment makes Eckrodt MMC's second-in-command, overseeing such key activities as procurement, model development, production and sales.

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Shareholders OK DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt to MMC board

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) head to a meeting in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Jan. 19. During the meeting, they approved the appointment of Rolf Eckrodt of DaimlerChrysler AG as an MMC board member.

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Chrysler eyes parts cooperation with M'bishi Motors

DETROIT, United States - Dieter Zetsche, president and chief executive officer, of the Chrysler division, DaimlerChrysler AG, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Detroit on Jan. 9. He said Chrysler is considering using common parts with Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp. in its North American operations.

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S. African-made Mercedes Benz cars to go to Japan

EAST LONDON, South Africa - Employees at a new DaimlerChrysler AG factory in East London, South Africa, work on Mercedes Benz cars. The German-U.S. automaker said Oct. 11 the factory is manufacturing right-hand-drive sedans bound for markets in Asia, including Japan, and Britain. Until now, only Mercedes Benz models made at the company's Bremen plant in Germany have been shipped to Japan.

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MMC head to quit after DaimlerChrysler equity purchase

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) announces Sept. 8 the resignation of its president over a cover-up scandal and a revision to its alliance pact with DaimlerChrysler AG. The fourth-largest Japanese automaker said Vice President Takashi Sonobe (L) will replace Katsuhiko Kawasoe as president Nov. 1, after DaimlerChrysler buys a 34% stake in MMC in October in a deal that newly allows the German-U.S. firm to raise its stake three years later without approval from the MMC board. Photo was taken at a news conference held at MMC's head office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on the afetrnoon of Sept. 8.

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Ford Motor selected sole bidder for Daewoo Motor

SEOUL, South Korea - An official of South Korea's debt-ridden Daewoo Motor Co. briefs reporters June 29 on a decision by the company's restructuring committee to select Ford Motor Co. as the ''preferred bidder'' after an international auction. In the three-way auction, Ford Motor won over General Motors Corp., which had formed an alliance with Italy's Fiat SpA, and another alliance between DaimlerChrysler AG and South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co.

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Hyundai and DaimlerChrysler announce deal

SEOUL, South Korea - Two officials of DaimlerChrysler AG (R and C) shake hands with Hyundai Motors Co. Chairman Chung Mong Koo on June 26 after the automakers announced an alliance. DaimlerChrysler, a German-U.S. automaker, will acquire a 10% equity stake in South Korea's largest car manufacturer, and the two will set up a 50-50 joint venture on the development, production and marketing of commercial vehicles.

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DaimlerChrysler in capital linkup talks with Nissan

DaimlerChrysler AG chairmen Juergen Schrempp (R) and Robert Eaton (L) confirm Jan. 22 the German-U.S. automaker has started talks with Nissan Motor Co. on a possible capital linkup at a press meeting in Tokyo.

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Nissan open to bids for equity stake

Yoshikazu Hanawa, president of Nissan Motor Co., speaks at a news conference Jan. 19. He said Nissan would consider proposals by foreign companies to acquire a significant stake in his company. Nissan has been the target of speculation about possible acquisition by or tie-ups with foreign automakers, including Renault SA of France and DaimlerChrysler AG, the German-U.S. auto giant.

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Mitsubishi Fuso appoints Daimler's Boelstler as new president, C

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. said May 31 that Harald Boelstler (file photo), currently in charge of its parent company DaimlerChrysler AG's Mercedes-Benz passenger car procurement section, will succeed current President and Chief Executive Officer Wilfried Porth. The appointment will take place after being approved at a regular shareholder meeting on June 27. (Kyodo)

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Detroit auto show begins

DETROIT, United States - The ''Pacifica'' hybrid station-wagon SUV model unveiled by the Chrysler side of DaimlerChrysler AG draws attention at the North American International Auto Show that began in Detroit on Jan. 6.

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MMC seeks tie-ups with makers other than DaimlerChrysler

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Hideyasu Tagaya speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News. Tagaya said that the struggling automaker is discussing alliances with automakers at home and abroad in a bid to reduce its reliance on DaimlerChrysler AG. ''We are considering mutually beneficial business tie-ups'' with automakers in addition to DaimlerChrysler, he said. (Kyodo)

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DaimlerChrysler pulls plug on Mitsubishi Motors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 23 shows the Mitsubishi Motors Corp. headquarters building in Tokyo's Minato Ward. DaimlerChrysler AG said in Germany on April 22 it has decided not to inject capital into the struggling Japanese automaker. The German company's shareholders were against a planned rescue program for Mitsubishi Motors. (Kyodo)

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(4)DaimlerChrysler pulls out of Mitsubishi Motors

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiko Kawazoe, president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Jurgen Schrempp, CEO of DaimlerChrysler AG, at a press conference in Tokyo for the business alliance. The photo was taken March 28, 2000. (Kyodo)

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(2)DaimlerChrysler pulls out of Mitsubishi Motors

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s show room in Minato Ward, Tokyo. DaimlerChrysler AG said April 22 it has decided not to inject capital into the struggling Japanese automaker. The photo was taken April 23. (Kyodo)

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(3)DaimlerChrysler pulls out of Mitsubishi Motors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 23 shows the Mitsubishi Motors Corp. headquarters building in Tokyo's Minato Ward. DaimlerChrysler AG said April 22 it has decided not to inject capital into the struggling Japanese automaker. The German-American automaker's shareholders were opposed to a planned rescue program for Mitsubishi Motors. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi unveils test pickup truck

DETROIT, United States - Mitsubishi Motor Corp. unveils a concept car of a new pickup truck jointly developed with the Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler AG at the North America International Auto Show on Jan. 5. (Kyodo)

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(4) MMC unveils Colt compact car featuring high-fuel efficiency

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Rolf Eckrodt (L) shakes hands with the first owner of the Colt compact car, featuring the high-fuel efficiency of 20 kilometers per liter of gasoline of its 1.3-liter engine version at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyada Ward on Nov. 11. The Colt is equipped with the same platform and suspension as that of the planned compact car to be released by the Smart car division of DaimlerChrysler AG, MMC's leading shareholder. (Kyodo)

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(5) MMC unveils Colt compact car featuring high-fuel efficiency

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) introduces the company's Colt compact car featuring the high-fuel efficiency of 20 kilometers per liter of gasoline of its 1.3-liter engine version at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyada Ward on Nov. 11. The Colt is equipped with the same platform and suspension as that of the planned compact car to be released by the Smart car division of DaimlerChrysler AG, MMC's leading shareholder. (Kyodo)

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(3) MMC unveils Colt compact car featuring high-fuel efficiency

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Rolf Eckrodt introduces the company's Colt compact car featuring the high-fuel efficiency of 20 kilometers per liter of gasoline of its 1.3-liter engine version at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyada Ward on Nov. 11. The Colt is equipped with the same platform and suspension as that of the planned compact car to be released by the Smart car division of DaimlerChrysler AG, MMC's leading shareholder. (Kyodo)

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New models in Mercedes-Benz C Class unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - DaimlerChrysler Japan Co. unveiles two new models in the Mercedes-Benz C Class on June 22 in the first full-model changeovers in the mainstay series of German vehicles. The luxury Elegance and sporty Avantgarde (photo) models are both equipped with 1.8-, 2.5- and 3-liter gasoline engines and feature improved user-friendliness and wide interior spaces. (Kyodo)

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Hyundai, DaimlerChrysler sever strategic alliance

SEOUL, South Korea - Hyundai Motor Co. Vice President Kim Dong Jin speaks in Seoul on May 12 about the company's announcement that it has severed a strategic capital alliance with DaimlerChrysler AG. (Kyodo)

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MMC head hints at possible capital tie-up with other businesses

TOKYO, Japan - The new head of troubled Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Yoichiro Okazaki, tells reporters at its headquarters in Tokyo on April 30 it is possible the automaker may seek a capital tie-up with companies other than its current parent DaimlerChrysler AG. (Kyodo)

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DaimlerChrysler's Cordes to become outside director for MMC

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said April 14 that Eckhard Cordes (file photo), an executive at its German parent DaimlerChrysler AG, will become an outside board member pending approval at a shareholders meeting at the end of April. The decision is seen as an attempt to expedite the work of reviving the struggling Japanese automaker, owned 37% by DaimlerChrysler. (Kyodo)

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MMC's Eckrodt to resign to take blame for business woes

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Rolf Eckrodt (in file photo) may step down to take the blame for poor results at the firm, which is trying to revive itself with help from its biggest shareholder, DaimlerChrysler AG, sources close to the company said Feb. 16. Eckrodt, a former senior official at DaimlerChrysler, assumed the presidency in June 2002 after being sent to the MMC board in 2001 from the German-American automaker to turn around the Japanese company. (Kyodo)

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DaimlerChrysler delivers fuel-cell car to Tokyo Gas

TOKYO, Japan - Two officials from the Japan unit of DaimlerChrysler AG pose beside a fuel-cell-powered passenger car, the F-Cell, the company delivered to Tokyo Gas Co. in a ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 4. This is the first time a fuel-cell vehicle was actually handed over to a customer. The German carmaker said it plans to deliver 60 F-Cell cars to other customers in Japan, the United States, Germany and Singapore over two years beginning this year. (Kyodo)

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MMC develops car based on DaimlerChrysler's fuel-cell system

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) has developed a fuel-cell vehicle (in photo) equipped with DaimlerChrysler AG's fuel-cell system. MMC said on Sept. 17 it asked the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport for permission to certify the vehicle. The certification would enable MMC to join what the government calls the ''Japan Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Demonstration Project'' and thus test the vehicle with hydrogen refueling infrastructure under actual driving conditions on public roads. (Kyodo)

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(2)DaimlerChrysler signs contract to make Mercedes cars in China

BEIJING, China - German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG Chairman Juergen Schrempp addresses a ceremony in Beijing on Sept. 8 held to sign an agreement with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. to make 25,000 Mercedes-Benz cars within the next few years in the Chinese capital. (Kyodo)

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(1)DaimlerChrysler signs contract to make Mercedes cars in China

BEIJING, China - Representatives of German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG and Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. sign an agreement in Beijing on Sept. 8 to make 25,000 Mercedes-Benz cars within the next few years in the Chinese capital. (Kyodo)

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MMC eyeing 4-fold sales increase in China

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) said March 14 it plans to raise annual sales in China to 300,000 vehicles by the end of 2007, up more than four times over the 2002 level. As part of the sales increase plan for the Chinese market, MMC began producing sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) under the Pajero Sport brand at German auto giant DaimlerChrysler AG's local joint-venture plant. (Kyodo)

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MMC unveils Colt compact car featuring high-fuel efficiency

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) President Rolf Eckrodt introduces the company's Colt compact car featuring the high-fuel efficiency of 20 kilometers per liter of gasoline of its 1.3-liter engine version at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyada Ward on Nov. 11. The Colt is equipped with the same platform and suspension as that of the planned compact car to be released by the Smart car division of DaimlerChrysler AG, MMC's leading shareholder. (Kyodo)

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M'bishi Motors to cut 9,500 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Sonobe (L), president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), and Vice President Rolf Eckrodt, who was dispatched to work with the troubled Japanese carmaker by DaimlerChrysler AG, announce the company's major restructuring plan at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 26. Under the plan, MMC, hit hard by cover-up scandals involving vehicle defects, will cut some 9,500 jobs, or 14% of its group workforce, by 2003 and close down its key Oe plant in Nagoya.

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Shareholders OK DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt to MMC board

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) head to a meeting in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Jan. 19. During the meeting, they approved the appointment of Rolf Eckrodt of DaimlerChrysler AG as an MMC board member.

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MMC's new No. 2 Eckrodt meets the press

TOKYO, Japan - Rolf Eckrodt of DaimlerChrysler AG speaks to the media Jan. 19, shortly after the board of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) approved his appointment as an MMC vice president and chief operating officer. The appointment makes Eckrodt MMC's second-in-command, overseeing such key activities as procurement, model development, production and sales.