– Ford Motor Co. marked the production of its 300 millionth vehicle Tuesday at the Rouge Center plant in Dearborn, Mich. The car is a crimson 2004 Mustang. Ford celebrated at plants around the nation, including the Chicago Assembly Plant on Torrence Avenue.
– Visitors can stroll down a 40-foot slab of Route 66 and take a simulated ride on a 1950s-era elevated train from Chicago as part of a Smithsonian Institution exhibit, America on the Move, that explores how trains and automobiles changed America. The 26,000-square-foot exhibit, in the American History Museum in Washington, includes 300 objects in scenes ranging from a Buick dealership in Portland, Ore., to a vacation trailer park in 1930s Maine. It’s the largest exhibit ever at the history museum.
– Citing heavy gas-guzzling in China, General Motors executives will show off their latest hydrogen-powered concepts to Chinese officials including Zeng Peiyan, minister of the powerful State Development and Reform Commission. China’s car production rose 87 percent, to 1.44 million cars, in the first three quarters of the year from a year earlier. GM’s China sales rose 38 percent.
