The third-largest forging business in the world, it supplies firms such as Ford and DaimlerChrysler.
The Civic's problems signal opportunity for other compact vehicles, such as Ford Motor Co.
More growth should be good news for overseas automakers such as Ford and GM that have invested heavily in the country.
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It also has entered into long-term contracts with other car makers such as Ford, Toyota, Kia, Bentley, BMW, Volkswagen, Nissan, Hyundai, and Mitsubishi.
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It is now trying to sell Teksid, its foundry business, and Comau, which makes robots for car makers such as Ford and GM.
Sirius has major ties with automobile makers such as Ford, GM and Toyota and competes with Internet radio leader Pandora.
Banks, of course, raise money for less environmentally friendly corporations, too, such as Ford, General Electric, and ExxonMobil, which need cash to fund their operations.
Bluetooth, cameras, GPS and other satellite technologies are at the forefront here, and companies such as Ford, Apple and Sirius have already made some headway.
"It's the 'Who's Who' of energy users, " he says, with car companies such as Ford and power companies such as Duke Energy on the list.
Then, the few attractive workplaces for aspiring British industrialists were provided by foreign-owned car firms such as Ford, which also had its European head office in Britain.
Sirius XM has ties with major automobile makers such as Ford, GM and Toyota, which help drive its presence in the U.S. automobile space.
As Mexico transitioned from protectionism to export-led growth, companies such as Ford, Nissan, Siemens, Acciona, Telefonica, and Foxconn have all made major investments and hired thousands of employees.
This rush into luxury cars is driven by the fragmentation that created sport-utilities in America, compact minivans (people carriers) in Europe and small European town cars, such as Ford's Ka.
Several apps such as DriveSafe.ly and SMS Replier have created popular solutions, but only a few vehicle manufacturers such as Ford and BMW have integrated the feature into vehicles themselves.
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Automobile manufacturers, such as Ford (NYSE: F) and GM (NYSE: GM), charge a lot of money for their in-car touch panels, many lower end models are produced the old-fashioned way.
With the likes of Google, Nuance and Vlingo now offering mobile speech-recognition services for phones, and the development of entertainment systems and vehicle communication, such as Ford's Sync platform, Parakeet may be flying into a growing market.
Disturbing violent incidents in places such as Juarez, Acapulco, and even Mexico City continue to occur, but companies such as Ford, Foxconn, Volkswagen, Coca-Cola, and HP continue to run a diverse array of operations in Mexico.
They have allowed some of the country's biggest industrial firms to foster more pliant company unions, such as Ford's, and many maquiladora (free zone) factories along Mexico's northern border get away with unions that are registered (thus excluding any others) but otherwise non-existent.
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More are on the way -- the talk of this year's big Detroit auto show was all about "crossover" vehicles such as Ford's new Edge and Acura's RDX, while even Mini is planning to build a wagon version of its beloved Cooper hatchback.
And without any grand programme, Mr Smith is also cutting the number of basic car platforms (the chassis and drive-train mechanical bits that make the wheels go round) from 16 to eight, in line with best practice at firms such as Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota.
As I discuss in my new book, The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream, great innovation drives the most successful companies, from old-line companies that innovate their turnaround, such as Ford, to new generation companies that innovate to lead entirely new categories, such as Google.
Some of the best names, such as the Ford Explorer , are utilitarian.
The result was vehicles such as the Ford Five Hundred--a high-quality but ho-hum-looking sedan that was supposed to be the brand's new flagship.
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In the less-developed countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia family fortunes and homegrown foundations are taking on more of the causes that for decades were addressed by Western giants such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations.
In fact, millions of Americans already drive vehicles such as the Ford Taurus, the Dodge Caravan and the Chevrolet Silverado truck that can use alcohol fuels (ethanol or methanol) to reduce dramatically, if not eliminate, their consumption of gasoline.
They are both luxury cars, priced well above most of the cars sold by mass-market brands such as Chevrolet, Ford or Toyota.
"We have big concerns about three things: automobiles, automobiles and automobiles, " says Rangel, who doesn't believe the deal is fair enough toward U.S. automakers, such as GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler.
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The Festo case, which appears to be bound for the Supreme Court, is pitting large companies (such as IBM and Ford), which say that the fuzzy equivalency doctrine encourages lawsuits, against smaller companies, which are worried that their innovations will be ripped off.
Bill Ford favors a more measured approach than his company has used in other emerging markets, such as South America, where Ford invested heavily.
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