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DETROIT—GM will build the next-generation Camaro at its Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant instead of its Oshawa, Ontario, plant.

BAN PHO, Thailand—No one was hurt after a fire erupted at an engine oil storage tank at Toyota’s assembly plant here, causing $1.6 million in damage.

TIPTON, IN—Chrysler will invest $162 million to reconstruct the Getrag transmission assembly plant here.

BEIJING—China-based Build Your Dreams will build a new assembly plant in California in 2013 to produce electric buses.

SAGINAW, MI—Nexteer Automotive, a tier one automotive supplier, is investing $70 million in its assembly plant here and will add 325 new jobs.

DETROIT—Fiat is planning to acquire 100 percent of the Chrysler Group by purchasing the 41.5 percent of shares in the company held by the UAW. Fiat currently owns 58.5 percent of Chrysler.

WASHINGTON—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has introduced a proposal to mandate that all light passenger vehicles be equipped with event data recorders beginning Sept. 1, 2014.

TALENT, OR—Brammo Inc. will convert an old Walmart building here into an assembly plant that will make electric motorcycles and employ 130 people.

ARLINGTON, TX—GM has hired 1,000 new workers to build large SUVs at its assembly plant here. The new jobs are part of a $500 million expansion that includes a new stamping facility set to open next year.

YORII, Japan—Honda has developed a more ecological painting technology that moves from a four-coat, three-bake process to a three-coat, two-bake water-based process.