1. INTRODUCTION General Motors is a motor vehicle company in the United States that started manufacturing in 1915. The purpose of this report is to examine the decisions that were made within the company‚ in the lead up to their financial crisis in 1991. In the years preceding this downfall‚ the CEO Robert Smith made several decisions that contributed to the declining financial status of General Motors. Consequently‚ when Smith retired‚ the Black Swan Event of America’s recession left the next
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Buying our dream car brings us joy and regret It was the month of December of the year 2013; I was stressed out‚ depressed and at times I even felt sick. December 21st was right around the corner and I was struggling to gather the money that would keep me from living in my car or worst-case scenario‚ in the street. Ever since I was in grade school‚ I hoped that by the time I was 22 years of age‚ I would own the latest model car of the SLK class Mercedes Benz. I always imagined of how great that
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every one about for the last 2 years in 2009 that how our auto industry consumes more oil if we don’t switch from gas guzzlers to electric cars‚ hybrids‚ and fuel cells‚ and the compact cars‚ the key player in the carbon-conscious automobile market of the next ten years‚ especially one powered by diesel engine. Also‚ GM has lost its ability to develop small cars with the sale of its Opel subsidiary to Canadian auto parts maker‚ Magna. It was an erroneous move by the GM leadership due to lack of foresight
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Bikes vs. Cars Lots of people find it hard to differ a bike from a car. They normally choose the car and ignore the bike. Today in our country people are too lazy to see their similarities and just choose the one that’s easier to drive. Although they are similar by giving you transportation‚ they definitely have a large amount of differences too. Bikes are made and bought in a lot of different styles‚ sizes‚ and colors. Bikes have two wheels and are powered by physical labor from the driver
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Heavy Duty Commercial Vehicles‚ Jeeps and Cars. TVS and Sons represents premier automotive companies like Ashok Leyland‚ Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd.‚ and Honda. The company is also one of the leading logistics solution providers and has set up state-of-the-art warehouses all over the country. TVS and Sons has also diversified into distributing a range of Garage equipments. Sundaram Motors: Sundaram Motors distributes Heavy Duty Commercial Vehicles‚ Cars‚ and auto spare parts for several leading
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Car Service - what should you expect? When organising a car service‚ it’s important that you establish what the service includes. Some garages will change only your oil filter‚ others will carry out a full service. A good garage will follow a service checklist as a confirmation of a job well done.. Does your car need a service? Most modern cars only needs a service once a year‚ but older cars require a service once every six months. The manufacturer’s service handbook will
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and John Stoll Swedish carmaker Volvo is planning to produce driverless cars that are aimed at reducing crashes‚ through the use of self-driving car technology by 2020. Volvo’s vision is that no one will be killed or injured in these driverless cars because there is no chance for human error. Volvo also believes that with the driverless car technology it’s developing‚ we could see virtually zero car deaths‚ at least in cars with this technology. Existing vehicles could be easily adapted to this
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driverless cars‚ and they are being tested in California. Out of all the test drives‚ the driverless car has done‚ it only crashed once and that was when a human was driving it. Driverless cars will outgrow regular cars‚ but are people willing to their freedom taken away? Google’s robo-car initializes the end of driving and a new stage of technology. The big problem is if people are ready for this change. There are many controversial factors that make people doubt about the new car. This will
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Report on the article‚ Driverless cars and how they would change motoring? Introduction: This article was written by Daniel Nasaw form BBC news magazine. The main purpose of this article is to inform and persuade the motoring community to buy into the idea of cars that drive them self’s. Main ideas : The main idea of this self driving car is basically to reduce road traffic accidents from a number of different factors e.g. drink driving‚ speeding and using technology such as mobile phones ect
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The Smart Car The Smart car was introduced in 1994 between Mercedes-Benz and the Swiss manufacturer of Swatch watches and was unveiled in 1997. The car was named for “Swatch‚ Mercedes and art.” The Smart car only measures in at 8-feet-8-inches long and is 5-feet-1-inch wide. More than 95% of the components are recyclable. The Smart car is priced in at three different versions. The Pure is at the base level and starts at $11‚590. The Passion is decked out and is most popular and starts at $13
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