For example, the Honda Ridgeline is a pickup truck made by Honda which is a Japanese company, it has a V6 engine. ... The car also has a Garmin navigation system which is a foreign company. ... This is why American car companies went bankrupt in the year 2008. ... Ever since the American car companies recovered from bankruptcy, they have tried to mimic foreign cars. ... In 2008 my dad bought a 2008 Honda Civic Coupe EX. ...

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Consumers who want to buy cars, let's say Honda, cannot go to buy the car directly from the manufacturer. They have to buy at the retailer company. ... It is like the chain company. ... For example, Honda and Toyota or BMW and Mercedes Benz. ... There are more than 20 companies in the automobile industry nowadays such as Honda, BMW, Mercedes Benz, and Chevrolet. ...

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The American Congress, upset with the greed of the oil companies who wanted to charge world prices for their products, had placed a cap on the wellhead price of domestic crude oil. ... Unfortunately, the domestic companies had not possessed the capital or the engineering flexibility to change rapidly to what was the new buying public had wanted. ... Thus, by the second great oil shock of 1979, Toyota, Honda and Datsun (later Nissan) and Subaru were in the right place at the right time with the right product. ... Beginning with Honda's Marysville, Ohio, plant in 1982, Japanese makers re...

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Honda was the first company to approach Maloney with an offer to buy the rights to sell the Romulator. Soon he had several offers from various companies for the purchase of the rights to the Romulator. ...

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Early indications suggest that this could cost the ailing company as much as £200 Million per annum, a figure that the company could not sustain. ... During the seventies British Leyland (as the company was then known) was severely damaged by strike action, which led finally to the nationalisation of the company in 1977. ... The company built the Rover 75 to fit the new company taxation system but its smaller vehicles (a significantly growing market) are over 10 years old and uncompetitive in the market place hence adding to declining sales. ... Secondly the company is still a big em...

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• Grade Level: High School