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Diesel Engines Sports Cars
1,107 words... With the new diesel engine in production, trucks were able to be built bigger and have more horsepower. As a result the semi-truck was born. The semi truck became a substitute to the train. The semi was the largest production truck built for heavy-duty trailer pulling truck. The semi would tow a large trailer on the back. The trailer would be filled with what ever item that need to be transported in mass quantity to areas that a train could not reach. The semi became the king of the road bec...
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Analysis Of The 1968 Chevrolet Corvette
1,389 words1968 was the first year Chevrolet presented the newly redesigned Corvette, known as the C 3. This model started as a dream, a fantasy car, and was never expected to reach production status. Being produced in the late 1960 s it was on the call of demand to produce sufficient power from the engine to compete with the Oldsmobile's 4 - 4 - 2, Pontiac's GTO, and Dodges Charger. "The 1968 Corvettes redesigned body style combined with its engine options proved to not only look good, but also forge a re...
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Horse Power Sports Car
654 wordsAfter spending the summer looking for a car my dad and I could agree on, we finally narrowed it down to two cars. One of these cars was a 2002 Acura RSX Type S and the other was a 2002 Chevrolet Camaro Z 28. My dad had previously said that there was no way I could buy either of the two. The Acura was too expansive at $ 26, 000. 00 and the Chevrolet was too powerful at 310 horse power. Since I was going off to school and leaving Houston in less than a week, he finally gave in and said I could pur...
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Special Interest Groups Target Market
1,435 words... to effect can also change the way a company operates. For example, new pollution laws that have come into effect over the past years have made some manufacturers change the way their product is produced and how excess materials are stored and disposed. One thing some companies have chosen to do is solicit the use of a lobbyist to ensure the demands placed on their companies arent overly extreme. Another thing companies can do to take advantage of the legal environment is become active with s...
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Model T Henry Ford
1,391 words... introduced the moving assembly line, where parts were put on conveyor belts and moved from work station to work station. He sold more than 15, 000, 000 Model T's from 1908 to 1927. More than half the cars in America during this time period were Model T's. "The appearance of the Model T is generally regarded as the milestone in the transition of the car from its role as a 'toy of the rich' to a 'tool of the people. '" The advent of the Model T allowed new levels of society to buy and experien...
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Z 28 Car Back
540 wordsMy Chevrolet Pride With the turn of a key, my LT 1 350 engine fires up with a roar that sends Mustang owners whimpering back to the garage. I own a 1997 Chevrolet Camaro Z 28. The 1997 Camaro is the thirtieth anniversary of a long history of Chevrolet heritage that has built muscle cars, like mine, and a lowly three-cylinder Geo metro. My raging machine comes off the factory assembly line with a pavement pounding 285 horsepower. That number alone is impressive, but I have tinkered with my engine...
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Alternative Fuel Electric Vehicle
848 wordsA Formula One race car accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in under 3 seconds. How could a car that goes 0 to 60 mph in 12 seconds ever be considered cool? The people at Engine Technology International must be impressed because theyve crowned the gas-electric hybrid powerplant from the Honda Insight as International Engine of the Year 2000. 1 The truth is, with a 95 -mpg potential and a 110 mph top speed, the Insight is turning everybody's head while at the same time giving environmentalists a beacon o...
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Drop The Bomb Mother Nature
1,279 wordsCreative Story: Everything Ends Jennifer stopped running through the forest after doing so for what seemed like eternity. She had no idea where she was, why she was here, or who was chasing her. All she knew was that running for so long of a time made her very hungry. Desperately, she looked around for something to eat, and her eyes settled on a tall apple tree. Jennifer picked a couple and ate them as she leaned against a maple tree while watching mother nature take its course. She could see th...
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General Motors Motor Company
746 wordsGENERAL MOTORS Ever since the beginning of the 20 th century, American people have been fascinated with automobiles. This fascination started with people trading their horse and carriage for a brand new automobile. General Motors was aware of this growing industry and took control with the help of William Durant. Now every family, on average, has 2 cars. GM has grown through the years to become a billion-dollar company. William Durant was born December 8, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew u...
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Gross Profit Margin Net Profit Margin
1,637 wordsGeneral Motors Financial Ratio Analysis I. General Motors History Highlights In its early years the automobile industry consisted of hundreds of firms, each producing a few models. William Durant, who bought and reorganized a failing Buick Motors in 1904, determined that if several automobile makers would unite, it would increase the protection for the group. He formed the General Motors Company in Flint, Michigan, in 1908. Durant had bought 17 companies (including Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and Pont...
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Miles Per Hour Seat Belts
2,158 wordsThe making of automobiles started in the year 1770. In 1770 a man named Nicholas Joseph Cung not from France built a large steam-driven vehicle. The vehicle didn? t last long because the vehicle could only be driven for 12 to 15 minutes before running out of steam and the vehicle was too heavy and had poor balance and made it difficult to steer. Nothing more had been done until in the 1784. In 1784 James Watt made a patent on a steam carriage, but nothing became of it. Then in 1785 John Fitch in...
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Constantly Changing Foreign Competition
855 wordsThe History of the Chevrolet Nova and Chevy II Every successful automobile is a reflection of its time, but very few cars are as representative of their era in automotive history as Chevrolet s Chevy II and Nova. That may seem like a pretty grand statement to put on the shoulders of such a simple economy car, but after all the Chevy II changed many times over during it s 17 year run. The 1960 s and 1970 s were a time when automotive categories and markets were in a constant state of change, than...
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National Highway Traffic Center Of Gravity
1,136 wordsSports Utility Vehicles Are they really worth it? There has been an increase in the trendiness and consumer popularity of the Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) in the last few years, but there is no doubt in my mind that these vehicles are a danger on and off road. Not only are these vehicles beginning to overpower and outnumber cars on roadways and highways, they are beginning to outnumber them in accidents and ditches as well. Chrysler, Ford, Dodge, even Toyota and Honda are beginning to gear their ...
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Utility Vehicle Mini Van
801 wordsWe see them everywhere these days, on the way to work, on the highways, parked in every driveway and hundreds of them by every shopping center. Sports utility vehicles have given a new meaning to the word car. When it comes to safety, SUVs (sports utility vehicle) are by far the most dangerous vehicles on the road, and the road is exactly the place they should not be. Sports utility vehicles are designed for off road driving. It seems like bigger the body is on a SUV, the more popular it is; the...
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