Over the past 100 years the quality of cars has soared, but the notion of being driven around in a top-quality car by a driver was still somewhat of a distant concept.
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The quality of a car driver's eyesight was the most likely cause of a crash at a level crossing in which three people died, according to investigators.
The dangers come down to basics, engineers said: the lack of body reinforcements, lower-quality steel in car bodies, weaker or fewer weld spots to hold the vehicles together and car platforms designed decades before modern safety advances.
Although no American firm could currently deliver such a contract, Ispat soon might: it already produces, sources and sells lower grades of steel all over the world, and it is expanding into the high-quality steel that car makers demand.
By the late 1970s the roles had been reversed: Japan was producing the quality stuff while America's car industry was in crisis and its standard-bearers of quality were Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
It would also undermine the government's policies on air quality, global warming and car restraint.
Mr. Betts's portfolio at the combined Fiat-Chrysler reflects the crucial role quality plays in defining a car maker's image, especially one that is attempting a turnaround.
Each of these models also performed well in initial quality surveys and new-car reviews, including our own experiences with road testing the vehicles over the years.
As we explained in an earlier article, Mercedes-Benz posted very strong results in the first half of the year, driven by euro depreciation, rising luxury car demand, quality improvements and a successful model mix.
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She used an air monitor to measure the air quality in the back seat of a car.
The new centre includes a Reuse Shop that accepts good quality household items and sell them at car boot prices.
The evaluation was based on a random sampling of American opinion toward car brands in seven areas: quality, safety, value, performance, design, technology and environmental friendliness.
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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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Achieving this sort of change is comparable to how car manufacturers have instilled a commitment to quality or chemical companies such as DuPont have succeeded in making safety first such a central value.
As with all the OE Styled radios in the Advent line, this infotainment solution, lets the new car buyer upgrade to a high-quality multimedia and navigation system, without having to purchase other packages or trim levels.
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Currently no price or release date has been set for this handy adapter, which is a shame, because we're just itching to break out an old 1.7MHz cordless handset and add fluroscent light and passing car interference to the already sketchy sound quality we've come to know and love from VoIP.
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Planning mistakes from the past, such as the Market building on the Green and the Trinity Centre car park, should be redeveloped with high quality contemporary architecture and urban landscaping that contributes to the cityscape, improves connectivity, and conveys civic ambition and pride.
This car generates real, live, Le Mans-quality ground effects, and it is ferocious.
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The Palio assembly line uses rotating cradles that tilt the car body to convenient angles improving both quality and job satisfaction.
"I've seen no evidence at all, none, that having four-car teams has affected in any way negatively the quality of racing, " Gillett says.
Once you get above a certain price point from high-quality manufacturers like Mercedes, you are going to get a car that is powerful, handles very well, and has lots of convenience, comfort and safety bells and whistles.
Pirelli says that leading car makers have been so excited by the improvements in quality that they have rushed the new tyres into their test programmes.
With only four weeks for planning, Local Motors democratized the process by receiving 162 high quality designs from hundreds of entrepeneurs and spent fourteen weeks building the car.
Pioneer's Car Electronics Department is known for offering the kind of in-car products that make driving more enjoyable by offering high quality audio and video, seamless connectivity and ease-of-use.
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Offered through Ford dealers across Europe, the USB Music Box enables drivers and their passengers to plug their MP3 player, or any USB mass storage device, into the car and listen to their choice of music in razor sharp quality.
The rising Yen is one reason why Korean car manufacturers have done so well in recent years as the quality of their vehicles have quickly caught up to Japanese peers and the currency has often made its exports cheaper on a relative basis to those of Japan.
The DriveNow premium car sharing programme is a modern mobility concept that combines top-quality vehicles and service with simple, flexible usage.
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"The driving force has been that they are now producing cars that cater to European tastes and offer extremely good value and quality, " according to Chas Hallett, editor-in-chief of What Car?
U.S. car companies have figured out, you know what, if we produce high-quality electric vehicles, if we produce high-quality low gas -- or high gas mileage vehicles, those will sell.
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