No-one had ever circumnavigated the earth under their own steam - no motors, no sails.
It uses no other motors, and the strength of the grasp is controlled by a change in air pressure, making the hand quite dextrous.
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General Motors had no comment other than to say that its cars in Brazil are legal.
On the other hand, investors have punished Mitsubishi Motors (No. 23) for its sluggish reform efforts.
Before starting the project, Wagh did something no one at Tata Motors ever had: He talked to customers.
No, not General Motors, but Toyota, whose vehicles jump off the lot because consumers swear by their quality.
It is no secret that Toyota Motors sees the next wave of growth coming from developing markets in Southeast Asia and South America.
At the core of the corporate group, or keiretsu, with which the insurer had close ties, were no less than Nissan Motors and Hitachi Ltd.
The following day, The Wall Street Journal reported that General Motors would no longer buy advertisements on Facebook because the car maker believed paid ads on the site were ineffective.
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General Motors has shown no ability to manage all of its eight brands well, so how could it possibly handle three more--Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep?
It was tied at No. 22 with Tesla Motors.
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General Motors has some great products on the market, no question about it and the Government has given General Motors a second chance at life.
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It sold a record 9.75 million vehicles last year, regaining the crown of world's No. 1 automaker from General Motors Co.
If you need a modern example of how hard it is to recover from a bad reputation, look no further than Detroit and General Motors.
No longer would Citigroup or General Motors, which were saved by taxpayers and are wards of Washington, be able to lobby as if they were stalwarts of sink-or-swim free enterprise.
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History, say Mr Gore's boosters, is already proving him right: last year Jack Smith, the chairman of General Motors, declared that no car company that relied solely on the internal combustion engine would thrive in the next century.
"Even I recommended that he play, " says Daewoo Motors Chairman Kim Tae Gou (no relation).
America no longer has a Hummer economy (General Motors is considering selling off the gas guzzler).
His hand-held vacuums are outfitted with blazing-fast digital motors, his washing machines (no longer in production) with Formula One race-car bearings.
More fascinating, less dirty - Dyson now engineers motors in a room so clean no pollutants, pollen or dirt can damage the finely tuned technology being made by the highly calibrated production line.
Fortune also favored returnees Phornthep Phornprapha (No. 17) who oversees family firm Siam Motors, and Paiboon Damrongchaitham who just makes the cut at the bottom of the list as his GMM Grammy entertainment conglomerate soared with the Euro Cup finals.
No need to idle an entire production line as General Motors recently did when expected sales of its plug-in electric hybrid Chevrolet Volt failed to materialize.
Bankrupt Kia Motors, bought out by Hyundai, had promised no layoffs beyond the 6, 000 cut in the last two years, but recently got court approval to sack 600 more.
And no matter how good its cars are, given that General Motors of the U.S. by itself sells over 400, 000 vehicles each month, the Malay-sian company does not have the econo-mies of scale to compete in a global market where the giants keep getting bigger.
No doubt much of this rhetoric will focus on whether General Motors and Chrysler were saved and allowed to thrive via a federal bailout or workers were ultimately sold out, factories shuttered and dealerships closed to artificially prop up businesses that deserved to suffer in the first place.
By now, one of its motors had failed altogether, so that its camera could no longer pan from side to side.
Toyota was No. 1 in global vehicles sales last year, dethroning General Motors, which had been the top-selling automaker for more than seven decades before losing the title to Toyota in 2008.
Lovingly nicknamed Anna Konda (no explanation necessary), the Norwegian bot was assembled using 20 hydraulic motors powered by a regular fire hose, whose 100 bars of pressure give it enough strength to break through walls and even lift a car right up off the ground.
The Consumer Union, which owns Consumer Reports, is no stranger to legal battles with automakers over their ratings having survived previous controversies with Isuzu Motors, Suzuki Motor, and Mitsubishi Motors.
ILCs owned by General Motors and General Electric, also gigantic companies, and Target, another retailer, have done no such damage.
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