Seemingly innocuous names have long caused problems for car companies selling across borders and cultures.
The main sticking point is a collection of state and federal laws that make it difficult for car companies to terminate a dealer franchise.
What's stopping a faster pace is a collection of state and federal laws that make it difficult for car companies to terminate or relocate a dealer franchise.
Austin, Texas, is leading a growing number of cities in calling for car companies to produce plug-in hybrid vehicles that can go hundreds of miles on a gallon of gas.
These sums may sound huge for a company such as Rover, which has had little invested in it for 20 years, but they are routine for car companies investing in new models.
Engineers working for car companies and using networked computer-aided design terminals still file their ideas directly to the server for the chief designer to approve rather than bouncing them around among colleagues for collective improvement.
Once, the Internet space for car companies was reserved for younger buyers who were more comfortable with technology and flashy digital campaigns, and partial to affordable fuel efficient cars, while owners of luxury cars carried on in private forums.
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Frequent business travelers are the most lucrative customers for car rental companies, and when they travel someone else pays their bills.
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There are still a lot of hurdles out there for the car companies before they can get on the path to success.
Because driverless cars have no track record, the biggest challenge for car insurance companies will be measuring risk and pricing policies accordingly.
For the car companies to win, they need to at least contemplate major disruptions to their mindsets, organizational structures and business models, but this will be a challenge.
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While no clear changes look to be made in the United States or Canada, recent legislation in some countries has made it illegal for car insurance companies to charge different rates for men than for women.
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For if car companies now must offer you guaranteed access to other vehicles to get you to buy an all-electric one, it raises the question: Why do you need an electric vehicle in the first place?
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It's not unheard of for competing car companies in the West to strike deals whereby, say, one offers to the other a license on one technology in exchange for a license to use one of the second company's technologies.
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The other limiting factor for the other car companies efforts is exactly the limitation you cite for Google how this plays with their existing business models.
In the meantime, though, Great Wall is the poster child for all Chinese car companies.
China sales for some luxury car companies are already beating those in the United States.
Its strong balance sheet allowed Ford to go on a spending spree, paying top dollar for those European car companies and even buying up peripheral businesses like repair shops, Hertz car rental and a junkyard.
As executives at auto makers expect the current strong appetite for the subsidies to use up the budget before autumn, car companies are bracing for a sales drop when the program comes to an end.
And yet, these are the worst of times as well as the best for Japan's car companies.
So I think that the visit will highlight the trade agreement and the potential that the trade agreement creates for opportunities that American car companies in particular will have to sell their products overseas.
As for being involved in other car companies, this is obviously something the President never wanted to get involved in, but it, of course, would not have any impact on this administration's commitment to making sure that Americans are kept safe on our roads.
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Japanese car companies are bracing for the worst.
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But Toyota, like other Japanese car companies, was looking for a way to build vehicles in the United States.
Car-rental companies, for example, will be able to use mobile devices to inform their clients of their rental status, service requirements, lease extensions and other vital information in real time.
For the rest of us, it is of little doubt that competition from foreign owned car companies has led to higher quality and lower priced products for American consumers.
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In the car industry, for instance, restructuring has if anything been more intense among the car-parts companies, and the jobbing shops that supply them, as big manufacturers such as Toyota and Nissan squeeze costs.
Mr Vogel points to car companies, which may charge extra for features such as anti-lock brakes and passenger-side airbags, instead of offering them as standard features.
Hotels and rental car companies may either refund or issue credit for a future stay.
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