For example, the optimized engine Auto Start Stop feature now turns the engine off earlier while coasting to a stop.
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Workers start auto mining at the beginning of the game, and the base is automatically rallied to the minerals.
The popularity of car sharing networks has already convinced auto execs to start to rethink some of their future business strategies.
The market has also drawn support from demand factors, such as improved prospects for auto sales and the start of buying ahead of the Chinese New Year next month, traders and analysts said.
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When you combine that with the savings you might get from better rates on things like credit cards and auto loans, you start to see why a good credit score is important to your financial success.
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If a car is failing to do the job on introduction, auto companies simply have to start over.
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He got his start working at auto parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate then left in 1978 to found his own company, Bumper Works, which makes a one-piece car bumper design that is the industry standard.
Toyoda said in the interview that the company won't start building any new auto plants through 2015 to keep fixed costs down despite burgeoning sales and what he feels are good prospects for global auto growth.
And while Americans are increasingly considering all-electric vehicles for regular commuting and shorter trips, having your own charging station, let alone a solar-powered one, is still out of reach for most drivers, even as the stations start to crop up at auto dealerships and major businesses nationwide.
Chinese billionaire Wang Chuanfu told Bloomberg at the Detroit auto show yesterday that his company BYD will start selling a rechargeable car in the U.S. in the second half of 2010 one year ahead of schedule.
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The multi-tasking image-processing Venus Engine enables beautiful image recording and Sonic Speed AF (Auto Focus) combined with a quick camera start-up time to offer a high-speed response time to ensure users can capture even the most spur-of-the-moment photo opportunities.
Auto designer Henrik Fisker, co-founder of start-up Fisker Automotive, resigned as executive chairman today over disagreements with management over the future of the luxury plug-in hybrid manufacturer.
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So let me discuss what measures need to be taken by each of the auto companies requesting taxpayer assistance, and I'll start with General Motors.
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Right now China's auto industry resembles America's at its highly fragmented start: There are 120 or so Chinese companies that have popped up in recent years.
It has gotten this bad for Europe: start typing eurozone into Google search and the auto fill options are eurozone crisis, eurozone collapse and eurozone debt crisis.
If we start seeing a recovery in such things as auto sales, one can expect much of the new demand to be meant in efficient, largely foreign owned factories that have been gearing up across the Southeast.
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Tomorrow in Detroit, Ford and Chrysler start talking about a new contract with the United Auto Workers.
Very few might start their own professions as hair stylists, carpenters or auto mechanics.
From Daytona to Le Mans to a rural road in Ireland, auto racing spectators have long been too close to the action when parts start flying.
With credit playing an important role in a number of financial determinations, learning good habits at the start can give consumers the edge they need when applying for an auto loan, a mortgage, or even a job.
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The enhanced capacity underscores the expectation among auto makers that India's automobile market despite a current slowdown will start growing again and rank near the top globally by the turn of the decade.
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And we've already shown what we did in the auto industry, that even businesses that are troubled, if you go in there and you start harnessing American know-how and American ingenuity, and you give folks some support, that there is no reason why we can't be the single most efficient automakers in the world and significantly cut our dependence on foreign oil.
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Continental, another big auto supplier, is showing off applications that turn your smartphone into a key that can open and start your car.
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According to CNW Marketing Research, an Oregon-based firm that analyzes the auto industry, it is a positive sign for the economy when BMW dealers notice that a lot of their shoppers start out looking for a 3 series car, but end up buying the more luxurious 5-series.
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