Big motor homes require more engineering-intense parts like wrap-around windshields and driver cockpits that can't be bought off the shelf.
It was five years ago that prosthetics took a very literal step forward when Arizona State University's SPARKy foot offered a more natural walk, capturing the inherent kinetic energy that previously needed a big motor to replicate.
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With the Damon acquisition Thompson will try to apply his separate-brand concept to big, complicated motor homes.
After company founder John Hanson died in 1996, Winnebago shed ancillary businesses such as a European commercial distribution division and began to concentrate on one thing: building big honkin' motor homes.
But GM's big Chinese partner SAIC Motor is on the list, as are many other largely state-owned enterprises.
The salesforce seems motivated too, signing contacts with some big players including Ford Motor Company and Bay Networks.
But Postl faces some big problems with the motor-oil industry that he didn't have in the cookie business.
This motor is easily big enough to propel a destroyer (it is just a tad less powerful than were the engines of the Titanic).
At last month's Frankfurt motor show almost every big carmaker could boast of new hybrids in the pipeline, some of them plug-ins, and prototype all-electric vehicles were all over the place.
Officials from the Alliance of Automobile Manufactures, the industry group that represents the "Big Three" automakers--Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler--were not immediately available for comment Friday.
Thompson wanted Thor's Four Winds brand of motor homes to start building big, expensive diesel buses when he saw the market for diesels heat up a few years ago.
The talks are tacit recognition that the incoming administration believes that whatever Congress does is likely to be a stopgap to keep one or more of the Big Three -- Chrysler, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp.
Last week, the heads of the Big Three--General Motors, Ford Motor and DaimlerChrysler--pushed back, claiming that achieving those increases in corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) is too costly.
The ultimate result of the promotion was the widening of an already-existing gap in perceived quality between Detroit's Big Three and their Japanese counterparts at Honda Motor, Toyota Motor and Nissan.
The motor insurance industry will go through two big changes in the next few months.
Look at it another way: take Philly out of Pennsylvania, the Big Apple out of New York, the Motor City out of Michigan, the Windy City out of Illinois, Cleveland out of Ohio, Milwaukee out of Wisconsin, St.
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The big reason he returned to the list is that Ford Motor stock is up more than 50% in the past year and is trading around its five-year highs.
Traffic gridlock looms in the big cities, especially Jakarta, where the number of motor vehicles has tripled to 9.5m in the past eight years but road space is growing at less than 1% a year.
In an era where Danica Patrick can contend against men in motor sports, Silberman is about to take a big kick forward for female athletes, even if the odds are clearly stacked against her.
It would be a big experiment, but it would at least be a planned one unlike the equally big, but unplanned experiment that is now being conducted by motor cars, power stations, cement factories and logging companies all across the planet.
The efficiency produces all the torque needed to let a 165-pound person walk, but with just a 30W to 60W motor versus SPARKy's 150W -- a big help to battery life that also reduces the AMP-Foot 2.0's weight to that of the fleshy kind.
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The U.S. auto industry had a big month in February, with sales increasing 14% at Ford Motor and 1.1% at General Motors.
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What is likely to evolve over time is a U.S. industry that looks more like Europe, which is five or six big companies rather than a big three, with GM, Toyota, Ford, Chrysler, Honda Motor and Nissan each holding as much as 18% to as little as 7% of the U.S. market.
When those lobbyists discuss what they fear most, increased stateside competition from our Big Three automakers pales in comparison to what the collapse of GM, Ford Motor or Chrysler might mean in terms of bad policy.
The beneficiaries of that policy are China's "Big Three" automakers--Shanghai Automotive Industry, First Automotive Works and Dongfeng Motor--and a handful of other large, state-owned companies.
The markets have survived the crash of big companies, such as Enron, an energy trader, and the downgrades of motor companies, Ford and General Motors, in recent years.
Mighty Toyota Motor is absent from our A-List of the world's best big corporations (see p. 37).
Of all the bizarre subsidiaries that big companies can find themselves with, Harmony Agricultural Products, founded and owned by Honda Motor, is one of the strangest.
Pfizer and a number of other big-name companies delayed earnings releases this week due to the storm, but Ford Motor issued its results as scheduled Tuesday morning.
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