The smaller TBM 850 seats six, goes 370mph and flies a 1, 570-mile range on one engine.

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In fact, it actually became the basis of a new category in enterprise software known as technology business management (TBM).

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TBM, a manufacturing consultancy based in North Carolina, it is the truck industry that is successfully showing how to disintegrate car manufacturing.

ECONOMIST: Car manufacturing

Buckalew was the registered owner of the single-engine Socata TBM 700 and had more than 1, 400 hours of flight time, according to the report.

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TBM's founder, Anand Sharma, is convinced that the car industry will gradually move to a pattern where most of a car will be made in modules that are simply snapped together in small assembly lines close to the consumer, where details can be adapted to local tastes.

ECONOMIST: Car manufacturing