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    • … standards, if congress caved into the Big 3 lobbying efforts, seems disingenuous to turn around and criticize them as though congress had no hand in this. 3. Also, trucks/SUVs generally are more expensive so those vehicles and can absorb the legacy costs and afford to pay higher wages to build those …

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    • … building gas-guzzling miniature Sherman tanks with three rows of seating was a great way to increase profits; production costs were higher, and the American consumer bought them. As the scale of these vehicles went up, so did the ticket price. All of a sudden, right around the time George W. Bush took …

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    • … longer than expected, rather than expiring early like Pinto gas tanks? Maybe that’s part of it, but to blame the unions for good negotiating is worse than forgiving the companies for bad. And what does it matter? The real issue at hand — and the only one that really matters — isn’t who to blame …

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    • … than $2,000. Initial sales were strong, but quality problems emerged. Then came the infamous safety problems with exploding fuel tanks, which Ford refused to acknowledge. Message: The customer comes last. “The problems for the domestics really started in the ’70s when they were offering cars like …

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    • … and Mercedes for our birthdays. When I got my liscense, my mom set a price limit, and we went and looked at used cars. I got lucky and found a 2002 Chevy Cavalier. Great little car. Yeah, he didn’t have a lot of horsepower and didn’t have GPS, OnStar, and iPod dock and heated seats. But it was four …

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    • … it will be largely due to lessons learned from this failed experiment. Chevy Volt . Unlike the EV-1, the Volt has a gas engine that kicks in once the battery runs down, so you can’t get stranded away from a recharging outlet. Since it’s a sedan, the Volt will appeal to families, too. Initial sales …

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    • … straight from the EV-1. If electric cars catch on and GM ends up a leader, it will be largely due to lessons learned from this failed experiment. Chevy Volt . Unlike the EV-1, the Volt has a gas engine that kicks in once the battery runs down, so you can’t get stranded away from a recharging outlet …

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    • … the company converted all of factories to produce $12 billion worth of airplanes, trucks, tanks, guns, and shells for the US military. No other company delivered as much material to the Allied forces ( source). 5. … and the Nazi The Opel Blitz - photo via ned.ronet.ru When he rose to power, Adolf …

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    • … trucks, gas tanks) to move that energy around. If energy coming into this country via petroleum (joules) is to be replaced by electric power generated natively ( sticky energy, as Andy Grove puts it), then there is going to need to be a massive upgrade in the power transmission infrastructure …

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    • … been at the top of its class in continuing to produce defective engines, seat belts, airbags, police cruisers with explosive gas tanks and much else. And they continue doing so instead of correcting the known manufacturing defects. . The US Auto Giants focused on the next quarter’s profits …




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