In 2004, BMW was the first automobile manufacturer in the world to integrate iPod in the audio system.
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The enterprise that dominates the local economy, First Automobile Works, is China's largest.
Other new technology ideas we introduced included the first pocket hand held computers, the shiny aluminum Razor Scooter for kids, the first automobile radar detectors, the first electronic toothbrushes, and many others.
First, new automobile plants are needed to build in emerging markets, to feed demand for cars in countries like Brazil, China, and India.
In 1892, the prototype of the first commercially successful American automobile was completed in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Charles E.
The black and yellow buildings, once known as "the lighthouses of the road", were first installed by the Automobile Association (AA) in the 1920s to aid motorists who had broken down long before the days of mobile phones.
William Harding was the first president to ride in a automobile, while Lyndon B.
Think back to when Toyota first sought to challenge the biggest automobile manufacturers.
The rise in global commodities has aggravated the challenges of this policy, since Beijing can expect to import more goods at higher costs, even as it fails to generate new household consumption-driven demand effectively (notwithstanding the surge in automobile imports when comparing the first-quarter 2011 deficit to that of 2004).
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While many think of Ford as the inventor of the automobile, he was certainly not the first to assemble a gas-powered car.
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In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an automobile, in Hartford, Connecticut.
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers expects car sales to drop for the first time in a decade in this fiscal year ending March 31.
Visualise virtually any particular year since the first world war, and it crystallises when you see an automobile manufactured at the time, in the same way it does when you see the clothing of a particular year.
Local car sales are set to decline this financial year for the first time in more than a decade, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, a local industry group, said last month.
This was notably the very first suburban-style shopping mall in the nation, designed with the automobile in mind, a revolutionary park and stroll concept way back in 1922.
It aims to return Opel and Vauxhall to profit by 2015, but the brands are heavily dependent on the European market where industry wide new car sales fell by 7.3% in the first 10 months of the year, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association.
After spending a recent weekend tooling around suburban Detroit in a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Honda Motor FCX , I was struck by a remarkable image: By the time my 9-year-old daughter is shopping for her first car, she may well be considering an entirely different kind of automobile--one that runs on hydrogen, not gasoline.
Recognizing a growing demand for leatherwear for the new automobile and airplane era, Hermes revolutionized the industry, making the first ever leather jacket with a zipper.
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Traveling from city to city for weeks on end barely making ends meet and living out of an automobile is as much a right of passage for an umpire as their first confrontation with a manager.
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"Folz has the best managerial reputation in the European automobile industry, " says Gianluca Pediconi, an auto industry share analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston in London.
Overall sales of automobiles in China were 4.8 million units in the first quarter, a 3.4% decrease year over year, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
The quest to discover more about his father provides the action for Camus's luminous autobiographical novel, "The First Man, " the incomplete manuscript of which was found in the wreckage of Gallimard's Facel Vega automobile.
So it is a curious development to hear today it has been announced that SAAB Automobile and BMW reached an agreement to allow the Swedish group to use engines developed by BMW. The first element of the JV will be for engines to be deployed in the new 9-3 that will appear in late 2012.
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