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"signed off" to their superiors and so on up the chain of command until the entire project was approved for public release by Vice Presidents Good and Lovely and ultimately by you. Although the normal preproduction testing and development of an automobile takes about forty-three months, the Student Motor Company teams managed to bring the Zinger to the production stage in a little over two years. Because the Zinger was a rush project the styling preceded engineering and dictated design to a greater

Porter’s five forces applied to Zipcar Threat of new entrants: Potential new entrants include existing car rental firms, companies that currently supply cars to car-sharing businesses (such as Volkswagen), and new start-up car-sharing ventures. As Zipcar is operating in only Boston, there are opportunities for new entrants (with sufficient resources) to establish themselves as dominant car-sharing service providers in other cities. This threat to the profitability of Zipcar’s planned future expansion

SEGMENT “Lyft is all about taking cars off the road via ridesharing. This is NOT merely a cool new use of technology to efficiently onboard and route more cars, cabs, town cars and limos. Lyft wants to use technology to get everyone who currently owns a car to join a trusted information network to share rides.” – Scott Weis, 2013 Lyft current specific segments are: • Socially conscious • Environment friendly • Tech-savvy millennials • Busy city professionals • Population active at night

Week 8 Team Assignment – Final Paper Tesla February 21, 2015 Final Paper Marketing strategy: Denmark Based on Hofstede cultural dimensional analysis for Tesla, a high end premium automobile, it would require a higher individualism score. (The Hofstede Center, 2015). Moreover, based on the second dimension, power distance, Tesla’s main customers should be those wealthy individuals in Denmark with a vast amount of income that have a significant contribution to the society. (Hofstede Center

following: 1. Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable. 2. Decide whether or not there was a contract for the purchase of the automobile. 3. Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile. 4. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note:Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources. 5. Format your assignment

rock formations that contain oil and gas deposits. After natural gas comes out of the ground, it goes to a processing plant where it is cleaned of impurities and separated into its various components. Now, the type of natural gas that goes into automobiles is called Liquefied Natural Gas, or LNG. The process for making LNG starts the same way as producing natural gas, except the natural gas is cooled to -260 degrees Fahrenheit. By doing this, the natural gas changes into LNG and its volume is

Political: In the next few years, China is saying that they are going to be investing billions of dollars into Hybrid technology. Honda is a automobile company who is well known for developing ad researching hybrid technology. They have been on the forefront of this new technology and for this reason they will be a top choice for this new hybrid technology. They will need to show the Chinese government that their technology is worth investing in. If they manage to do this, they will be bale to

on the carmakers and raises the standard and they have to design the product thinking more about the fuel consumption (O’Rourke). The increase in the cost to produce the products must be factored in the higher price of the product. The sale of automobile is affected by the rise in the oil prices and there is a possibility that the volume of sale may decline as the result of higher prices that the producers now have to charge for their products. Even though the auto industry decreases its price significantly

Introduction Fengshen brand is owned by Dongfeng Motor Corporation. As the milestones during the creative development of car business of Dongfeng, Fengshen initials the project of electric automobile so that this new product ‘I-car’ would support firm to reach global market. There is a market plan for Dongfeng’s move into America with ‘I-car’ as part of joint venture of PSA Peugeot-Citroen. A broad outline would be shown in terms of situation evaluation, SWOT analysis, marketing goal and objectives

purposes of transportation. Before the advent of the modern automobile, the widely used means of transport were horses, carriages, and walking by foot. These means of transport posed major challenges due to the fact that transporting supplies from one warehouse to another was difficult. However, with the introduction of the first car, it was a great reap forward towards eliminating most of the transportation hurdles. The advent of automobiles was accompanied by a corresponding need to consume more fuel