Case in point: after experiencing double-digit declines in 2010, private automobile dealers saw revenue growth of 16%, and simultaneously, motor vehicle parts manufacturing grew by 21%.
Many of Slovenia's most successful companies export vehicle parts.
Volkswagen's operations in the United States include research and development, parts and vehicle processing, parts distribution centers, sales, marketing and service offices, financial service centers, and its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Putting humans in a vehicle with millions of parts, atop thousands of pounds of explosives, and then operating it at high speeds while monitoring thousands of variables that rapidly change is hard stuff.
Parts of the vehicle are reported to have been caught up in nearby trees.
Volvo Car is looking for partnerships with other auto makers on parts and other vehicle systems, seeking to cut development costs and better compete in the premium small-car market.
Starting this month, the new distribution center will begin stocking parts for both the Tesla Roadster and Model S. In addition to parts warehousing, Tesla plans to utilize this facility for vehicle importing operations, final vehicle assembly and distribution, service headquarters, technical training operations, parts remanufacturing, collision repair and more.
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It is important to have a support system for vehicle repairs and a stable supply of parts.
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But his vehicle for the trip through the rural parts of three Midwestern states looks like it really is heading for a battle.
Nissan's best-selling domestic car, the compact Note car, imports about 45% to 50% of the parts used to build the vehicle at its factory in southern Japan.
Burns says a fuel-cell vehicle has one-tenth the number of parts of a traditional internal combustion engine.
Etch your vehicle identification number on car windows and major parts.
Instead of getting a ride out, the hotelier asked if, when the passer-by got to Windhoek, he could have someone bring back the parts he needed to repair the vehicle.
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Or is all your net worth tied up in a house or another illiquid vehicle that is difficult to break up into small parts and sell off?
Further, by creating global vehicle platforms, Ford maximizes the use of as many shared parts and components across as many lines as possible to lower overall costs.
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The key to pulling it off is the serial number assigned to each vehicle at the very first stage of production, where metal parts are welded together to form an engine compartment.
He camps often, doesn't have a fancy support vehicle and relies on the kindness of volunteers and peers to help facilitate the other parts of the trip.
But the parts suppliers are seldom involved early on in the conception and design of the vehicle.
The kind of details the paramedic and fire-fighters will give out include the work involved in cutting someone free from a wrecked car, the risk of a vehicle bursting into flames with people trapped inside and the kind of injuries sustained by different parts of the body in a crash.
However, if all the parts made of iron and steel in cars today were replaced with aluminium, the vehicle would weigh 45% less.
Vehicle readiness rates are now better than 90 percent, thanks to improvements in the delivery of spare parts.
Microwave imaging is used plenty, however, and due to its flexibility and lack of moving parts, the sensor could be used to build better integrated, cheaper airport scanners and vehicle collision avoidance technology -- making you safer however you choose to travel.
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