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60 » PEOPLE&BUSINESS May 2018 | AutoData FLECHA (ARROW) IS BACK The mythical Flecha bus from Viação Cometa will return to the roads to mark the company's 70th anniversary: the restored unit will make seventy routes on May 1st and June 12, going through São Paulo, capital, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, and other cities. Destinations and time schedule on http://www.viacaocometa. com.br/viagem-flecha. IT IS NOT APRIL FOOLS Ford has announced that it will no longer market the Fiesta, Fusion and Taurus models in North America until 2022 as part of a cost reduction plan. In the line of cars there will be only Mustang and Focus, with all the emphasis on pickups and SUVs. UP Sindipeças revised up projection of billing for auto parts segment in 2018: it expects R$ 89,4 billion now, an increase of 14% compared to 2017. New estimates also for investments, almost R$ 2,5 billion, and total jobs, which should reach 174,5 thousand posts. 50 GRAIN-SEMI-TRAILERS Librelato delivered 50 grain-semi-trailers to Risa, in Balsas, MA. Negotiated during Fenatran, in October. According to the company, 1 thousand units of new trailers have already been sold in the country and another five hundred are expected to go abroad by the end of the year. 84% BELIEVE IT Research by the consultancy MA8 shows that: 84% of 760 respondents believe that many suppliers in the automotive sector will no longer exist in up to ten years due to the arrival of new technologies and electric cars. FORD GO-RIDE Ford began medical transportation service - except for emergency situations - in the United States as part of a business expansion strategy in the area of mobility. GoRide is intended for the transport of the elderly, wheelchair users and patients with locomotion difficulty for medical consultations and treatments. With a fleet of 15 Transit vans that must reach 60 by the end of the year. IT'S CARGO, TCHÊ Ford delivered 40 Cargo 816 trucks to the Department of Rural Development, Fisheries and Cooperativism of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Vehicles, for the use in the transportation of family agricultural products, supplied with aluminium isothermal trunk. Disclousure/Cometa Disclousure/Ford Disclousure/Ford