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1) Wheels
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Master storyteller Arthur Hailey's #1 New York Times bestseller is a turbocharged thriller about America's automobile industry, from the bottom up Ford. Chrysler. General Motors. They were the Big Three, accused by critics of greed, monopoly, and abusing the public trust. In the shadows of these towering giants is American Motors, blazing its own path to greatness. Adam Trenton, the fiercely ambitious executive in charge of project development,...
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ON CAR LOTS ALL ACROSS AMERICA TODAY, it's the same ole story. An experienced dealer vs. an inexperienced buyer is an incredibly unfair match-up. When "car pro" meets "car novice," brace yourself for a friendly mugging. Too often, a dealer wins big, while another buyer happily drives away, having no idea how hugely they just lost. That's the new and used car game in America. But, is there anything you can do to even the odds? Yes! This book. My name...
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Dealers aren't making as much profit from new and used vehicle sales as they used to. Variable margins and sales volumes are under growing pressure, and many dealers are looking to fixed operations for additional growth and profitability. Yet many dealers simply aren't ready or able to profitably and properly grow their service business. Many don't understand how much the expectations of today's service customers have changed. Reviewing dealer case...
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HOW TO NAVIGATE YOUR WAY THROUGH THE CAR BUYING EXPERIENCE. This book will provide you with valuable insight into the methods and practices used by car dealers today. It will teach you the art of car buying in a simple concise manner including the step-by-step sales process that new and used car dealerships use in today's information age. It will help you understand how the dealers think and the way in which they conduct business. You will sharpen...
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This book is about my experiences at a, now closed, General Motors metal casting plant in the Buffalo, New York area. It follows my journey from apprenticeship training in a skilled trade, to becoming a journeyman in the trade, to going back to school for my college degree, and finally being promoted to supervisor of a critical department in the plant. When most people key the ignition switch or push the start button, they really do not have any idea...
6) Detecting and Modeling the Changes of Land Use and Land Cover for Land Use Planning in Da Nang Ci
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Da Nang City, located in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, has developed in many aspects in the last two decades and has been known as one of the five independent municipalities of Vietnam. Today, it constitutes the Key Economic Zone in Central Vietnam. Rapid industrialization and urbanization have caused incessant change of land use and land cover (LULC) in Da Nang City. Linh Nguyen's study aims at detecting, quantifying, and characterizing...
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An eye-opening chronicle of backstabbing, infighting, and industrial theft and espionage in the world's biggest business. It makes empires; it destroys economies; it shapes history. Welcome to the world's biggest business--the automobile industry. A hundred years ago there were six highly experimental cars. Today there are close to 400 million cars on the planet: set bumper to bumper on a six-lane highway, they would stretch well over 200,000 miles,...
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Auto dealership sales and service departments - within standalone stores or stores within public or private groups - can no longer operate as silos. When communications and workflow gaps exist between these two essential functions, efficiency suffers. Customer engagement does. Sales lead conversation does. And the dealer's ability to get replacement inventory sale-ready to meet demand does. This 'How-to" book helps auto dealers find answers to such...
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This book provides the reader with a better understanding of running an automotive paint facility in a manufacturing setting. However, it also covers several chapters that will be useful in any job market. From managing people, managing time, working with unions, implementing disciplines of 5-S, lean manufacturing, building teams, and the breakdown of each paint production process. This book will not only help the countless managers and supervisors...
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In the last three decades, China progressed from being nearly a truck-only producer to becoming the largest producer of passenger and commercial cars. The period 2001- 2013 is a period of 'blowout' in the Chinese automobile industry. To date, little is, known regarding this emerging automobile industry, which only started in the 1980s: What are the features of Chinese automobile industry? Has the Chinese automobile industry become a global player,...
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The automotive sector represents more than a simple industry. It embodies the economic and technological power of nations, the lifestyle and consumption patterns of societies, the dynamics of urban and territorial development, and acts as a national barometer of economic success and failure.
This book explains how the car industry works and analyses the challenges both for the sector and for the economies that rely on the industry for jobs, growth...
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"1970 Maximum Muscle explores the factors that would lead to the decline of the most exciting era in the American automotive industry-as well as the resulting arms race among designers who saw their last opportunity to make the ultimate muscle car. As a result, 1970 was the climax of the muscle car era from engineering, styling, and performance standpoints"--
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Entre 1920 y 1930, la Argentina llegó a ser el país latinoamericano con mayor cantidad de automóviles y el cuarto en todo el mundo. Esta acelerada motorización tuvo un enorme impacto en la vida social, cultural y económica al transformar los hábitos y las pautas de consumo y de movilidad. Los automovilistas recorrían rutas de difícil tránsito, visitaban los parques nacionales y concurrían a los balnearios. Muchos animaron las populares carreras...
16) Thunder city
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Detroit series volume 7
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Struggling Detroit car maker Henry Ford is saved from bankruptcy by a manufacturer of horse carriages. A rare visionary, Harlan Crownover sees the potential of a horseless carriage and when the banks refuse investment money, he obtains it from the Mafia.
17) Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
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A uniquely informed investigative account of one of the biggest financial crises of President Obama's early administration
During his first year in office, President Obama faced the possibility of more than a million lost jobs as GM and Chrysler headed for financial ruin. He joined forces with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and economic advisor Larry Summers in a historic government intervention to keep these two auto-industry giants afloat, working...
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Drawing from the last decade of his 26-year career at the Wall Street Journal, where he covered energy and environmental matters, ClimateWire founder and industry insider John Fialka brings to life this thrilling and important story about American's rejection and second obsession with the electric car.
The resurgence of the electric car in modern life is a tale of adventurers, men and women who bucked the complete dominance of the fossil fueled car...
19) Trucking Business Startup 2023: Step-by-Step Blueprint to Successfully Launch and Grow Your Own T
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Discover the secret to building a thriving business in an industry that will never go out of demand... Have you ever been amazed by how quickly something you ordered on Amazon arrives on your doorstep? The most successful eCommerce businesses move their products quickly… and to do that, they rely on one under-appreciated industry: the trucking industry. The global freight trucking market is forecast to hit $2.7 trillion by 2026… yet there's a...
20) Trucking Business and Freight Broker Startup 2023: Blueprint to Successfully Launch & Grow Your O
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Learn the ropes of starting a recession-proof business that gives you financial security and the freedom to be your own boss. Do you think your 9-5 job won't be able to help you afford your dream lifestyle in the next 10 years? Do you feel overworked and underpaid in your current job and are desperately looking for a lucrative alternative that pays well without driving you crazy? Do you dream of starting your own business and finally living life...
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